Honors English 10AB Mr. Carmicle Room 422
2015-2016 Course Syllabus323-993-1700Hollywood High School
E-Mail: School for Advanced Studies
This course includes CCSS aligned project, activities and assignments, quality and purposeful questions, discussion techniques that encourage student participation and productive and relevant instructional groups. Students will be able to construct viable arguments using textual evidence by responding to complex texts and answering text-dependent questions to become effective communicators and critical thinkers. The school wide learning outcomes include the following descriptors:
- Students analyze, synthesize and evaluate to create solutions for both academic and practical challenges
- Students employ models and structures to resolve both hypothetical and real-life situations
- Students create and respond to evidence-based questions by utilizing close reading skills to comprehend content materials
- Students express themselves precisely to others using clear definitions in formal documents and oral discourse appropriate to task, purpose and audience
- Students use appropriate technology to explore, to collaborate with others and to deepen their reasoning skills and knowledge
- Students are active listeners and respond thoughtfully to convey clear and distinct perspectives
Textbooks:Elements of Literature, 4th Course (Holt-Rinehart-Winston, Publishers)
Holt Perspectives in Multicultural Literature
Vocabulary Workshop Level “F”
Pre-AP: Readings and Exercises
Holt Grammar
Novels:Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies William Golding
To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Plays:The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
Antigone Sophocles
Assigned Reading Selections:
"The Cold Equations" Tom Godwin
“The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury (Completed Semester A)
“Everyday Use” Alice Walker
(Other reading selections to be determined)
Assigned Writing Selections:
Letter to the Editor (LA Times) (In Progress)
Americanism Paper (Scheduled Semester B)
FDR Inaugural Speech Paper (Scheduled Semester B)
“The Standard of Living” (Dorothy Walker) Paper (Completed Semester A)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Funeral Speech Paper (Scheduled Semester B)
Outlining The Elizabethans and Introduction to Shakespeare (Scheduled Semester B)
Lord of the Flies Paper (Completed Semester A)
Fahrenheit 451 Paper (Completed Semester A)
Catcher in the Rye Paper (Completed Semester A)
Antigone Paper (Scheduled Semester B)
To Kill A Mockingbird Research Paper (Scheduled Semester B)
“Bill of Rights” Paper (Scheduled Semester B)
(Other assigned writing to be determined)
Secondary Interim Assessment One: Argument (Topic TBD)
Argument Paper One
Secondary Interim Assessment: Argument (Topic TBD)
Argument Paper Two
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Course Marks Thresholds for Honors and AP Students are based on the following scale:
A 92.0 %
B 82.0 %
C 72.0 %
D 62.0 %
Late Work Policy (amended August 2015)
Students who are absent and provide an acceptable excuse may promptly make up tests by appointment with the teacher, if a signed parent note is provided. Assignments not submitted by e-mail the day students are absent are “late” and will be credited with FAIL POINTS. Assigned work not submitted to the turnitin.com web site is not scored and does not receive credit if deadlines are not met. Verified truancies and unexcused absences from class will prohibit students from making up work and no credit will be given. If students miss class for sports or field trips, assigned work is to be submitted the day it is due, either before or after school either at the classroom or in the teacher’s mailbox in the main office with permission from staff.
End of semester deadline is the first day of stop week; no work will be accepted after that date. Summer assignments are expected to be submitted on time, and if not submitted by the posted due date on the teacher blog will be scored as “credit” only and will NOT earn a letter grade.
Late work may negatively affect a student’s overall course mark and earned grade point average; it is in the student’s best interest to meet deadlines and submit work by posted due dates.
Grammar
Students cover skills and concepts, particularly in parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, subordination/coordination and conventions of usage and mechanics. Students write both timed and untimed writing pieces and then rewrite to perfect documents so that revisions are not needed for successive drafts.
Examinations
Midterm and final examinations are administered; other quizzes are given throughout the course and include tests on language, writing strategies from texts, vocabulary, the connotative and denotative meanings of words, and literary terms necessary for success on the multiple-choice and essays portions of the California High School Exit Examination and other applicable standardized testing.
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Student Signature______
Parent/Guardian Signature______
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Notes:
Addendum to Syllabus on Christmas Day 2014 after going through paperwork for tenth grade:
Parker’s “The Standard of Living”
First Inaugural Address-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pre-AP Reading and Exercises