Topic outline

• English 10
  
  

  English 10

  English 10 Q1

  In English 10, we will study and explore poetry, narratives, short stories, novels, non-fiction essays, articles and informational texts. Our comprehension of these texts will be facilitated by analyzing and evaluating the literary elements, plot, character development and themes of each work. As part of this course, we will continue to develop writing skills by experimenting with multiple forms of writing. We will clarify thinking and writing by improving our ability to support opinions, providing expressive details and using the writing process as a means to strengthen ideas. This course will provide ample opportunities for students to imaginatively and critically express themselves through multi-media resources as they make essential connections to the world, themselves and literature.

  
  
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  • English 10 Q1 Moodle Course File
• Week 1
  
  

  Week 1

  Introduction

  • Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
    --Lazurus Long (fictional character)
  • INTRODUCTIONS

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to Week 1 Page
  • READ--Course Syllabus, Expectations & Policies Book
  • RESOURCE--How to Post in a Forum Discussion Page
  • WATCH--The SECRETS to SUCCESS Page
• Week 2
  
  

  Week 2

  • 
    A world ends when its metaphor has died.
    -- Archibald MacLeish
  • INTRODUCTION

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to Week 2 Page
  • WATCH--Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Page
  • WATCH--Introducing Fahrenheit 451 Page
  • CENSORSHIP

  • INTERACTIVE--Defining Censorship File
  • WATCH--Sarah Palin and Censorship Issues Page
  • WATCH--Maya Angelou on Censorship Page
  • WATCH--ALA Book Banning Screencast Page
  • LOOK--American Library Association URL
  • WATCH--Reader Response Guideline Screencast Page
  • RAY BRADBURY

  • WATCH--Author, Ray Bradbury Qwiki Page
  • WATCH--Bradbury's Voice Page
  • READ--Bradbury is on Fire! Page
• Week 3
  
  

  Week 3

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    Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
    --George Henry Lewes
  • INTRODUCTION

  • INTRODUCTION to Week 3 Page
  • Sources Page
  • FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
    

  • Check out this depiction of science fiction roots! URL
  • WATCH Setting Page
  • READ--Metaphor, Simile, Irony & Allusion Page
  • WATCH-- YouTube on Allusions Page
  • READ--Symbols Page
  • WATCH--More about Symbols Page
  • WATCH--Symbols in Fahrenheit 451 Page
  • WATCH Personification & Imagery Page
  • Mrs. Ellis discusses F451- this is awesome! URL
  • WATCH--Check Your ANSWERS for Lit Device Review Page
  • UTOPIC & DYSTOPIC LITERATURE
    

  • READ Distopic Literature Page
  • WATCH--Utopian Society Page
  • WATCH--Defining Dystopic Page
  • FAHRENHEIT 451
    

  • WATCH--Themes of Fahrenheit 451 Page
  • WATCH--Introducing Guy Montag Page
• Week 4
  
  

  Week 4

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    Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. --Isaac Asimov
  • INTRODUCTION

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to Week 4 Page
  • WATCH--Ray Bradbury on Clarisse Page
  • WATCH--Characters of Fahrenheit 451 Page
  • SCIENCE FICTION
    

  • WATCH--Genre of Science Fiction Page
  • LITERARY ELEMENTS
    

  • WATCH--What is IMAGERY? Page
  • WATCH--Protagonists, Antagonists & Foils Page
  • FAHRENHEIT 451
    

  • READ--Fahrenheit 451 pages 68-91
• Week 5
  
  

  Week 5

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    The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" --Part 3, pg. 141 Fahrenheit 451
  • INTRODUCTION

  • INTRODUCTION to Week 5 Page
  • THEMES

  • WATCH--Desctructive Technology Page
  • ALLUSIONS

  • READ--The Myth of Icarus Page
  • READ Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach Allusion Page
  • WATCH--About Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach Page
  • RESOURCE--Link to Dover Beach (entire poem) URL
  • FAHRENHEIT 451
    

• Week 6
  
  

  Week 6

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    "...a people with out a story is a people without an identity."
  • INTRODUCTION

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to week 6 Page
  • LITERARY DEVICES

  • FAHRENHEIT 451
    

  • Thinking ahead Page
  • READ--Fahrenheit 451 pages 113-139 URL
• Week 7
  
  

  Week 7

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    If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. --Rudyard Kipling
  • INTRODUCTION
    

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to Week 7 Page
  • WATCH--In Conclusion--Fahrenheit 451 Page
  • FAHRENHEIT 451

  • READ--Coda, Epilogue, Prologue, Afterward & Conclusion Page
  • REVIEW--Review materials for Fahrenheit 451 Exam Page
  • ORAL TRADITION
    

  • READ--An Oral Tradition Page
  • WATCH--video about oral tradition Page
• Week 8
  
  

  Week 8

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    The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. – Robert Cormier
  • INTRODUCTION

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to Week 8 Page
  • GRAMMAR

  • READ--Grammar Quest Rationale and Possessives Page
  • ORAL HISTORY
    

  • LITERACY SERVICE LEARNING
    

  • WATCH--Literacy Presenation Page
• Week 9
  
  

  Week 9

  • 
    The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. ~Robert Cormier
  • INTRODUCTION

  • Sources Page
  • INTRODUCTION to week 9 Page
  • How to paste a link (you will use this next week when you paste your google doc link) Page
  • LITERARY ANALYSIS
    

  • READ--Writing a Literary Analysis Page
  • READ--How to Write a Literary Analysis Page
  • ASSIGNMENT--Write Literary Analysis Rough Draft Page
• Week 10
  
  

  Week 10

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    And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
    ~Sylvia Plath
    

    
    
  • INTRODUCTION

  • INTRODUCTION to Week 10 Page
  • LITERARY ANALYSIS
    

  • ASSIGNMENT--Final Draft of Literary Analysis Page
  • COURSE EVALUATION