Current Syllabus
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Elsinore High School
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Course Description
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
English 11 expands students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in alignment with Common Core State Standards. In addition, this course will provide extensive development of the writing process aligned with the Modern Language Association (MLA) format, critical literary response and analysis skills and cross-curricular study. Students will learn and perfect WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading) strategies, including Socratic Seminars, Philosophical Chairs, close reading, and other strategies that promote rigor in order to support the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards.
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Punctuation 4 Comma Types: Notes
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Theme
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In-Text Citation
How to Annotate in Your English Class
Annotation shows me what and how you are understanding the text. This document reminds you about what is expected as you annotate fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, etc.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide : Purdue Writing Lab
This is a step-by-step guide.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide : Purdue Writing Lab
Here is a page from Purdue that you can use when working on work cited pages.
Lexile Levels per Grade
This shows the reading level (lexile) expectations for each grade. Sorry the doc is so small. I will replace as soon as I can find a better one.
For more information on Lexiles, go to www.lexile.com
MLA Sample Works Cited Page : Purdue Writing Lab
This is an example of what a Work Cited page looks like. For details, go to Purdue OWL.
This is a mini fact sheet to help when doing a work cited, or using MLA. Basics only. For details, go to Purdue OWL. Print it out if it helps during writing.
