English 10: Classical and Contemporary World Cultures refines the language arts skills of reading, literary analysis, writing, vocabulary development, research, critical thinking, speaking, listening, visual literacy, and digital literacy. Each unit includes a classical work and a contemporary text so that students can explore the connections between the past and their world today, and some selections align with the World History sophomore course so that students can make interdisciplinary connections. Selections include both Western and non-Western texts that reflect diversity in race, gender, age, economics and geography.
Students maintain a blog to create an online learning community that not only extends classroom literary analysis discussions, but also provides an authentic audience to outside reading and writing assignments.
Regular instruction in vocabulary will use both explicit lessons and vocabulary specific to the literature being studied in class.
Intensive writing instruction will help students develop thinking skills and a personal voice. Students will write one formal, typed assessment each quarter for a total of four formal assessments per year. Essay assignments throughout the year will include multiple modes such as narrative, persuasion, and critical analysis. Grammar and usage review will include explicit lessons, but focus on using correct conventions in writing. Writing instruction and assessment will use the Six Traits of writing, rubrics and exemplars. Research skills will be taught throughout the course.
Students will also develop and practice effective speaking skills in individual presentations and group discussions.
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