Honors English 10

 

Student Supply List:  Students will need to purchase the following materials:

 

· 3” three-ring binder with pockets

· page dividers (for grammar, literature, and vocabulary)

· spiral notebook (for bell ringers)

· mechanical pencils or ink pens (black or blue ink only)

· loose leaf notebook paper

· The Scarlet Letter

MLA Guide Book (for research paper writing)

 

Classroom Donation Request: 

· Kleenex                         · Antibacterial hand gel

Clorox/Lysol wipes              · Paper towels

        

Course Description:

 

This tenth grade honors course encompasses an accelerated study of grammar and usage, composition, vocabulary, and literature.  The  literature content includes an advanced study of short stories, essays, poems, novels, and drama from early American literature.  Multi-paragraph essays and research papers are required in MLA format.  Students are expected to have completed summer reading and have access to a copy of Anthem, Huck Finn, and Animal Farm.

 

Learning Objective:

 

The objective of this class is to help students achieve an increased degree in competency with respect to reading and evaluating literature and the correct usage of grammar.  Students will be expected to contribute regularly during discussions and activities.  Additionally, students will be expected to write clear, concise, well-organized papers that demonstrate the ability to both see and define literary elements and connections.

 

Quizzes:  Students should expect a quiz on every new reading assignment. These quizzes are intended to assess whether or not the student has completed the assigned reading. Students will also be quizzed on biography videos and dramas watched in class. Quizzes are averaged in with class work for 40% of the overall grade.

 

Class work/Homework: Students can expect regular reading assignments throughout the semester.  Students can also expect regular homework assignments relating to literary elements and grammar exercises.  All assignments will be checked every day as part of the weekly class work grade (for a total of 100 weekly points).  Both class work and homework count as 40% of the overall grade.  Some assignments will be taken up and graded individually for 100 points while others may be graded for 10-20 points.  I will not announce ahead of time which assignments will be taken up for 100 points.  Therefore, it is essential that students do their best on every assignment.

 

Papers/Essays:   Students will be asked to write both informal essays and formal research papers that will examine certain aspects of the literature being read.  The length of these written assignments will very depending on the assigned topic.

 

Tests/Exams:  Students can expect to be tested periodically on the material that has been covered (literature, grammar, and vocabulary).  Generally, tests will consists of an objective section and a short answer section.  Tests are graded for 100 points and count as 50% of the overall grade.

 

Projects/Presentations: Students will occasionally be asked to research a topic and present the findings to the class for a grade.  Students may be required to make a poster  or a model to go along with the topic they are studying.  It will be necessary to work on these projects at home.  Students will always be notified ahead of time if any purchase, such as poster board, is necessary.

 

Bell ringers: Students must write daily entries in their spiral notebooks (4 sentence minimum).  Topics will be assigned.  I will not announce when bell ringers are to be taken up because it is the students’ responsibility to keep them up to date.  I will not take late bell ringers, so it is essential to keep up with them and bring them to class daily.

Bell ringers count as 10% of the overall grade.

 

Effort and Participation: Effort and participation are an essential part of this class.  If a student refuses to complete an assignment or presentation, he or she will receive an automatic zero that cannot be made up.  Participation grades are averaged with bell ringers for 10% of the overall grade.

 

Makeup Work: All assignments are put into the makeup work folder at the front of the room.  It is the responsibility of the student to get the missed assignments and to turn them in.  Points will be deducted from the assignment unless the absence is excused.

 

Grading Procedures:       Tests                                   50%

                                            Classwork/Homework    40% (100 points weekly)

                                            Bellringers/Participation          10%

 

Tests and bell ringers are graded out of 100 points.  Class work/homework assignments are graded for 10-20 points daily or 50-100 points for more difficult assignments.  All categories are weighed by percentages (as seen above).

 

Reading Requirements: Students will be required to read the following:

 

· The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

· One novel written by an American author before 1900 (independent reading)

Various short stories and poetry from Elements of Literature 5^th Course

  

 

 

 

 Mrs. Barkey’s 10^th Grade Honors

 

 Reading Project List

 

* Students must choose 1 of the following books to present at the end of the semester. Students may also choose an author not on this list as long as he/she is an American author before 1900 and the work is approx. 200 pages (Mrs. Barkey must approve).

 

1. Mark Twain

· The Autobiography of Mark Twain

· The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Pudd’nhead Wilson

 

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

 

3. Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

 

4. Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

 

5. Hiram Mattison

Louisa Piquet: A Tale of Southern Slave Life

 

6. Uptain Sinclair

The Jungle

 

7. Washington Irving

The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

 

8. James Fenimore Cooper

· The Last of the Mohicans

The Leatherstocking Tales

 

9. Nathaniel Hawthorne

· The House of Seven Gables

The Blithedale Romance

 

10. Edgar Allan Poe

· The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

· The Mask of the Red Death

· Davy Crockett

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

 

12. Herman Melville

· Typee                                   ·Moby Dick

· Billy Budd

· Henry James

· Portrait of a Lady

· Daisy Miller

The Turn of the Screw

 

14. Edith Wharton

· The House of Mirth

The Age of Innocence

 

15. Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

 

16. Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

 

17. Paul Dunbar

The Uncalled

 

18. Willa Cather

· My Antonia

O, Pioneers!

 

19. William Apess

· On Our Own Ground

A Son of the Forest

 

20. William Wells Brown

· Clotel; The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States

Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself

 

21. Francis Parkman Jr.

The Oregon Trail

 

22. Cynthia Salisberry

Phillis Wheatley: Legendary African-American Poet

 

23. Helen Keller

· The Story of My Life

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