Honors English 10
Course Description
The essential questions for the course center around the following themes: Growing Up, Maturity and Conformity; Heroes and Monsters; The Future; The Power of Comedy and Satire. The literature will include Antigone, by Sophocles; Macbeth, by William Shakespeare; Lord of the Flies by Richard Golding; Night by Elie Wiesel; 1984, by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; and The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde; as well as a variety of short stories, non-fiction works and poems that are related to the themes. Other works may be added at teacher’s discretion. Students will engage in the writing process through the semester in different genres of writing, including reflective, timed writing, literary analysis and argumentative/research based assignments. The student performance tasks at the end of the semesters will involve a debate project and a parody of Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal. Instruction and formative assessment will include, but not be limited to, lessons in writing, MLA research, annotation and other active reading strategies, SAT Prep vocabulary and grammar, and Socratic dialogue.
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