2014 Fall Semester Outline for 10th Grade English

2014 Fall Semester Outline for 10th Grade English

1st Week: August 13 - 15

Hand out syllabus

Getting to know you games 

Check out books

Assign Vocabulary F, Unit 1

2nd Week: August 18 - 22

Read “The Bet”

Vocabulary Book

Round Table Discussion 

Grammar:

Active and Passive Voice

Grammar Handout Worksheet #5; page 39 
Vocabulary Unit 2

3rd Week: August 25th - 29

Holt Handbook: 

Active/Passive Voice

Pages 199 - 203

Exercises 15 - 16

Dramatize the Story 

“The Bet” Essay Outline 

4th Week: September 2 - September 5

Read “By the Waters of Babylon” (training.nms.org)

Dialectical Journal

Answer questions 1 - 6 on page 273

Graphic Organizers from “Laying the Foundation”

Analyzing writer’s use of diction to create tone

Cloud: “Foreboding: Feelings that contribute to a sense of foreboding”

“Brief Writing Assignments”:

Write about a time when you had a sense of foreboding

T-Graphic Organizer: Diction and Imagery from “Babylon”
Vocabulary Unit 3 

5th Week: September 8 - 12

“Fill in the Blank Templates”

Details 

“Identifying Figurative Language”

Language

Sentence Structure
“Timed Writing Assignment” 

“Point of View”

Types of Sentences: 
Sentence Combining and Notes from the A.P. Book

Cumulative

Parallelism

Appositive

Periodic 

Dashes or Ellipses

6th Week: September 15 - 19

"The Pit and the Pendulum" 
Vocabulary Worksheets for "The Pit and the Pendulum" 
Graphic Organizers
Analyzing writer's use of diction to create tone
Fill in the Blank Templates
Details
Identifying Figurative Language

7th Week: September 22 - 26
Continuing work on "The Pit and the Pendulum"

8th Week: September 29 - October 3
Perspectives in Multiculturalism (two weeks)

October 15: Begin MACBETH

Common Core Assignments