English 10A
Agenda, Online Textbook, Turnitin.com
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English 10 Online Textbook (NOTE: Please use this to keep up with reading when absent or for homework!)
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- Turnitin.com code: IN "ABOUT" TAB ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM
- Please turn in all electronic assignments to Google Classroom.
Required Reading
- The Crucible
The Crucible Full Text (.pdf)
The Worrying Rise of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Resurgence of Preventable Diseases (.gif)
The Red Scare/McCarthyism
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
Hysteria and 9/11 Fish Bowl Article - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Full Text (.pdf)
Audiobook by Chapters (Preferred Version)
Audiobook by Chapters (LibriVox)
Dissociative Identity Disorder Activity.docx (14446)
DID Video
Student-Taught Vocabulary.docx (157954)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The id, ego, and super-ego -
Enlish 10 Textbook Units
Unit I: Encounters and Foundations to 1800
Collection 1: Native American Voices
Characteristics of Native American Myths
Why the Opossum has a Bare Tail
Collection 2: Voyages and Visions
- Independent Reading (Choose one to be read on your own time)
Taming of the Shrew
Julius Caesar
Jubliee
When Legends Die
The Glass Menagerie
After the First Death
We All Fall Down
Feed
Little Bee
13 Reasons Why
That Was Then, This is Now
Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Great Expectations
Spite Fences
The Secret Life of Bees
Required Writing
- Interpretive Essay
Interpretive Essay (Jekyll and Hyde or Crucible).docx (16340) (Requirements)
Editing Stations.docx (20404) (Stations we did in class, and peer editing checklist)
- Persuasive Essay
Persuasive Essay.docx (16856)
Example #1
Example #2
Example #3
Example #4
- Critical Review of outside reading (we will have some time in class to work on this)
Independent Novel Critical Review.docx (14910)
Check out the New York Times book reviews for inspiration!
Academic Vocabulary (Covered During Readings)
- point of view
- first person
- third person liimited
- third person omniscient
- atmosphere
- archetype
- aphorism
- motif
- mood
- allegory
- emotional appeals (pathos)
- logical appeals (logos)
- ethical appeals (ethos)
Grammar (Covered During Daily Warm-Ups)
- commas
Commas Warm-ups
Commas Notes - colons
Colons Notes - semicolons
Semicolons Notes - dashes
Dashes Notes - periods
Periods Notes
Final Exam
10A Final Exam Study Guide (due the day of the final)
10A Final Exam Review Jeopardy (Part I)
10A Final Exam Review Jeopardy (Part II)