Welcome to 10th Grade Honors Literature and Composition! This course is designed to challenge the minds of students by exposing them to various genres of literature and types of writing. Students will develop strong writing and critical thinking skills in addition to specific literary elements. Materials, classroom policies/procedures, grading scale, and other information are outlined on this syllabus.
Students will read, analyze, and explain the following:
Students will be required to write: informational, argumentative, and narrative paragraphs
Course Description
Students will interpret, analyze, evaluate, and critique literature. The overall goal of this course is expose students to informational texts, short stories, novels, and dramatic literature. Students will examine literature from ancient world epics to modern novels emphasizing the various genres, authors, cultures, and history surrounding each piece of literature. This is a highly academic course and will require extensive outside reading, writing, research, and vocabulary study.
Course Outline and Content
Students will demonstrate their understanding of literature through discussion, presentations, and essays. Students must demonstrate mastery of grammar and usage and will develop both written and spoken vocabularies. Students will incorporate learned skills into real world tasks that incorporate reading, writing, research, interviewing. and oral presentations. This course approaches the study of literature thematically with emphasis placed on independent thinking skills and composition skills.
Students will read, analyze, and explain the following:
- Fictional literary passages such as short stories, poetry, dramas, and epics and mythology
- nonfictional passages such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and speeches
- information passages such as essays, historical documents, as well as media articles such as web pages, newspapers, editorials, and other technical documents.
Students will be required to write: informational, argumentative, and narrative paragraphs
Course Description
Students will interpret, analyze, evaluate, and critique literature. The overall goal of this course is expose students to informational texts, short stories, novels, and dramatic literature. Students will examine literature from ancient world epics to modern novels emphasizing the various genres, authors, cultures, and history surrounding each piece of literature. This is a highly academic course and will require extensive outside reading, writing, research, and vocabulary study.
Course Outline and Content
Students will demonstrate their understanding of literature through discussion, presentations, and essays. Students must demonstrate mastery of grammar and usage and will develop both written and spoken vocabularies. Students will incorporate learned skills into real world tasks that incorporate reading, writing, research, interviewing. and oral presentations. This course approaches the study of literature thematically with emphasis placed on independent thinking skills and composition skills.
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