Course: LA205 English 10

Grade: 10

Subject Area: English

Type: Standard

Credits: 1

Course Information:

This is a year long course that requires selection of both semesters: S1 and S2. English 10 is a yearlong course that continues the development of language arts skills. Units of study will include an analysis of media, short stories, plays, poems, and novels. Students will learn to conduct research and incorporate the research into an essay.

Outcomes:

• Cite and use textual information to support ideas in both fiction and non-fiction formats in order to draw larger inferences

• Demonstrate understanding and use of figurative language/literary terms

• Recognize and determine meaning for literary allusions in fiction and non-fiction

• Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to the grade level and purpose

• Analyze literature “”fiction and non-fiction”” to determine central theme with consideration for historical context

• Analyze their own writing and the writing of others in order to produce writing free of sentence structure, punctuation, style, and spelling errors

Prerequisites:

English 9 or English 9 Honors

Corequisites:

If you take this course, you must also take LA205-S2 – English 10 S