English 10, English 10 Honors Syllabus

English 10, English 10 Honors Syllabus Mr. Freitag 2016-2017 Course Purpose: To develop communication skills through formal study of the English language in grammar, literature, and writing.

Honors Students: Honor students are expected to participate in the following activities as well as the REQUIRED advanced opportunities. Honor students are expected to come to class prepared and willing to participate in intellectual and thoughtful discussion of the daily lessons.

Objectives: Students will: review, learn, and apply grammar, usage and mechanics rules build and utilize a more comprehensive vocabulary compose descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive essays and projects read and analyze a variety of literary genres

Text: Prentice Hall Literature, Grade 10 Prentice Hall Writing Coach, Grade 10 Regular ed. Students are required to read the following: 12 Angry Men Monster Honor students are required to read (200 pts each): To Kill a Mockingbird Scarlet Letter Cold Sassy Tree Plus two (2) from the attached list

Materials: 1 two-inch or larger notebook Notebook paper Writing utensils (blue or black ink are required for final drafts) Honor students need 100 3x5 lined notecards for research project

Course Syllabus: Third nine weeks First nine weeks Grammar Content: Grammar review by diagramming Grammar Content: Pronoun Case, Correct Modifiers, Writing Content: Begin honors’ research project Capitalization, Punctuation Vocabulary Content: Retest/review literary elements in general Vocabulary Content: Begin memorization of literary elements classes. Weekly vocabulary lessons and tests for honor class. (50+ terms to be tested frequently and randomly throughout Literature Content: Honor students begin reading Cold Sassy semester) Tree and reading selection #2. General classes begin reading Literature Content: General classes begin reading 12 Angry Monster. Men. Honor students test reading selection #1, read Monster Speaking: Honor students required to memorize and recite a and To Kill a Mockingbird portion of Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” poem, all students will Speaking: compose and read an original work of poetry.

Second nine weeks Fourth nine weeks Grammar Content: Tenses & Voice, Verb Shift/Voice, S-V Grammar Content: Grammar review by diagramming Agreement, Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement/Case, Parallel Writing Content: Finish research project Structure Vocabulary Content: weekly vocabulary lessons and tests. No Writing Content: Begin Daily writing and weekly essays. vocabulary for honors class. Vocabulary Content: weekly vocabulary lessons and tests Literature Content: Poetry Unit. Students begin historical and Literature Content: Literature Units 1, 2, and 3. Honor students literary study of Julius Caesar begin 12 Angry Men and Scarlet Letter. Speaking: Honor students: be prepared to present research Speaking: Continue public reading of play project if time permits

***Timing of Units May Vary English 10, English 10 Honors Syllabus Mr. Freitag 2016-2017

HOUSTON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL

Mr. Freitag’s H. Eng 10 must select two(2) books from the following list. One book MUST be read as a summer assignment due August 17, 2016. The second book must be completed in April. All students will take an “A.R.” type test on these due dates.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court The Red Badge of Courage The Awakening Life on the Mississippi My Antonia The Good Earth Mark Twain Billy Budd By Stephen Crane Death of a Salesman By Kate Chopin A Farewell to Arms By Mark Twain The Grapes of Wrath By Willa Cather A Raisin in the Sun By Pearl Buck Alas Babylon By Herman Melville Invisible Man By Arthur Miller Song of Solomon By Ernest Hemingway The Client By John Steinbeck The Glass Menagerie By Lorraine Hansberry The Heart is a Lonely Hunter By Pat Frank A Separate Peace By Ralph Ellison As I Lay Dying By Toni Morrison Night By John Grisham All Quiet on the Western Front By Tennessee Williams Brave New World By Carson McCullers Dracula By John Knowles Jane Eyre By William Faulkner Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man By Elie Wiesel Pride and Prejudice By Erich Remarque The Return of the Native By Aldous Huxley The Tempest By Bram Stoker Wuthering Heights By Charlotte Bronte Murder on the Orient Express By James Joyce Frankenstein By Jane Austin Their Eyes Were Watching God By Thomas Hardy A Midsummer Night’s Dream By Shakespeare A Tale of Two Cities By Emily Bronte Oliver Twist By Agatha Christie 1984 By Mary Shelley Othello By Zora Hurston Richard III By William Shakespeare By Charles Dickens By Charles Dickens By George Orwell By Shakespeare By Shakespeare