English 10 Honors -- Weekly Work
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Unit 1: Poetry
We begin the year by looking at poetry -- as a way to listen for deep truths, and as a means for you to express what you feel deep inside. For more about this Unit go here.
Week 1 (August 23-27)
We begin by getting to know what's happening -- who's who, what's where, and where we are headed.
So, introductions are needed. In addition, we begin with some fun, and crazy, ways of reading and writing, a few refreshers on how to do school in this crazy world we live in today.
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Once students receive their computers, we will spend time reviewing how to sign into Schoology, Google Drive, Remind, EdPuzzle, and all those other great places we'll be heading this year. It's a fun ride, and it starts here and now.
Week 2 (August 30-September 02)
This week we practice some necessary skills -- like reading and annotating texts. We start talking about taking digital notes as well, using a double entry journal -- both available on paper and digitally. We read through a selection from "The Riddle House," and practice looking for and identifying Literary Devices. We also make a quick trip into our first poems: "The Grinch" and "Ambition," using the skills in reading, annotating, and literary devices we have been practicing.
Week 3 (September 7-10)
This week students learn more about Literary Themes -- the big universal ideas in an author's work. We talk about taking notes using a special Poetry Form and looked at how to use this with the poem "Madam and her Madam." Homework includes trying to fill in a Chart and Summary for the song "Imagine" by John Lennon.
Labor Day Weekend
Holiday Dates (September 03-06)
Week 4 (September 13-17)
We are continuing to look at how poems work -- the Rhyme, Rhythm and Rhetoric of the words authors choose to get across their big idea (Theme). It's also time to start working on the big Unit 1 project: The Poetry Anthology, in which each student chooses some poems around a theme of their own.
Weeks 5-8
We are working on the skills needed for analyzing Poetry and writing Summaries -- using classic poems from William Blake and George Eliot. In addition, students are being given time and support to work on their personal Poetry Anthology projects. We are also just starting to look at the larger Analysis Essay due later in November.
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RESOURCES
Here are a bunch of the resources students may want to consult as they work on their Anthology projects.
