COURSE OVERVIEW

GRADUATION PROJECT OPTION

ACCELERATED ENGLISH 10

Revised 4/2011

1. Literature

  1. Novels

1. The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

2. A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens

3. My Antonia – Cather

4. One or more additional novels

  1. Ethan Frome – Wharton
  2. The Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451– Bradbury
  3. The Red Badge of Courage –Crane
  4. Cry, the Beloved Country
  1. Plays
  1. The Merchant of Venice or Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
  2. All My Sons – Miller (optional)
  1. Reading Fiction – An Anthology of Short Stories – Teacher’s selections.
  1. Reading Poetry: An Anthology of Poems – Teacher’s selections
  1. A Multicultural Reader
  1. Writing

A. Expository – (3) in-class or take-home writings.

B. Creative or Narrative (1) – (choice(s) of poetry, short story, play,

personal narratives, chapter rewrite, etc.)

C. I-Search Paper (not literary criticism), 25% of marking period grade

D. Optional short pieces – (paraphrase, reaction pieces, portfolio reflection,

PSSA preparation, etc.)

  1. Vocabulary: Vocabulary Workshop – Level F

A. Chapters 1-15 required

B. Cumulative review units required

C. Department-wide standardized tests must be used

D. Percentage of Grade – 20%-25% per marking period.

  1. Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics: Warriners’s Fourth Course

Emphasis (E)
Separate non-essential phrases and clauses
Semicolons:
-Independent clauses NOT joined by and,
but, nor, or, for, yet
-Between independent clauses joined by
conjunctive adverbs and such terms as
for example, for instance, that is, besides
Between items in a series if items
contain commas (e.g., The box contained
a ring, which was valuable; a necklace;
and a bracelet, belonging to my
grandmother.)
Dashes:
-Abrupt break in thought
Nouns:
-Noun Clauses
Subject-Verb Agreement:
-Examples of more difficult indefinite
pronouns: “everyone was,” “all were,”
“none is,” “nobody is,” “no one is”
Adjectives:
-Adjective Clauses (e.g., My brother, who
is class president, is very intelligent.)
Include instruction in Relative pronouns
and 2 relative Adverbs “when” and
“where”
Case (Nominative, Objective, and Possessive)
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement:
-Examples: “each…his,”
“Anyone…her/his”
Usage:
-“bad/badly,” “well/good”
Adverbs:
-Adverbial clauses
Conjunctions:
-Subordinating
Infinitives/ Infinitive Phrases / Gerund / Gerund Phrases / Participles / Part. Phrases = (verbals)
Usage – Including but not limited to the following:
-who/whom
-except/accept
-affect/effect
-allusion/illusion
-amount/number
-famous/notorious
-apt/likely/liable
-phenomena/phenomenon
-beside/besides
-between/among
-data/datum
-emigrate/immigrate
-fewer/less
-imply/infer
-leave/let
-curricula/curriculum
Sentence Forms:
-Complex
-Compound-Complex

Refer to the Vertical Teaming Grammar document for Mastery skills which the teacher may wish to review in this course.

  1. PSAT/SAT prep
  1. Optional Films
  1. *The Merchant of Venice(R) requires district-approved parent permission slip
  2. *Equilibrim (R) requires district-approved parent permission slip
  3. A Tale of Two Cities
  4. My Antonia
  5. All My Sons
  6. The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
  7. Smoke Signals
  8. Pleasantville
  9. Remember the Titans
  10. The Age of Innocence
  11. Ethan Frome
  1. Assessment Options
  1. Writing Portfolios -- mandatory
  2. Vocab tests
  3. Objective tests
  4. Blue book essay tests
  5. Take home blue book essay tests
  6. Out of class paper
  7. Research paper, essay
  8. Oral presentation
  9. Group presentation
  10. SAT timed practice writing
  11. Homework
  12. Journals
  13. Notebooks
  14. Conferencing
  15. Peer conferencing
  16. Posters
  17. Power Point Presentations
  18. Short Answer Essay (PSSA preparation)
  19. Writing contests (local, state, national)
  20. Library Technology Assessment
  1. Graduation Project Option – see departmental Graduation Project requirements

Revised 4/11P. Wysocki, B. Hall