Honors English 10A
PREREQUISITES: English 9
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Honors English 10A is designed for students intent on challenging their skills as readers and writers and preparing for the most advanced English courses offered at the high school. Students will survey the scope of American Literature from the 17th Century to the mid-19th Century, exploring the period’s defining movements, genres, and central themes. Honors students can expect to write more frequently, reflect more critically, and meet higher demands on the quality and quantity of work completed in and outside of class. They will craft narrative, informative, and argumentative writings; an intensive study of academic vocabulary, rigorous expectations for correct grammar and usage, and timed writings focused on rhetorical analysis will prepare them for future Advanced Placement English classes. Staples of the standard English 10 curriculum, including the research unit, the analysis of non-fiction texts, and the proper use of prepositions, subject-verb agreement, common usage, punctuation, and simple, compound, and complex sentences, are preserved and integrated into units expanded and enriched for students who will pursue studies dependent upon refined language skills and highly-effective written communication.
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Honors English 10A is designed for students intent on challenging their skills as readers and writers and preparing for the most advanced English courses offered at the high school. Students will survey the scope of American Literature from the 17th Century to the mid-19th Century, exploring the period’s defining movements, genres, and central themes. Honors students can expect to write more frequently, reflect more critically, and meet higher demands on the quality and quantity of work completed in and outside of class. They will craft narrative, informative, and argumentative writings; an intensive study of academic vocabulary, rigorous expectations for correct grammar and usage, and timed writings focused on rhetorical analysis will prepare them for future Advanced Placement English classes. Staples of the standard English 10 curriculum, including the research unit, the analysis of non-fiction texts, and the proper use of prepositions, subject-verb agreement, common usage, punctuation, and simple, compound, and complex sentences, are preserved and integrated into units expanded and enriched for students who will pursue studies dependent upon refined language skills and highly-effective written communication.