STUDYPATH* Opening Week August 13-16, 2013

In-class assignments and class updates trump published blogs.

*POTENTIAL, ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGHT, HONOR

The Lesson of Ups
Show Up, Keep Up, Speak Up, Measure Up

Tuesday
Grade Ten Honors English syllabus is available on Box (see downloads at right of this blog) must be signed by students and parents and is due Friday
Turn It In account verification is required by Friday
Journal: Introduction to Grade Ten Honors English literary terms and rhetorical devices
Fahrenheit 451

A book-burning society

Ray Bradbury dialectical journal Part I due Friday
Semester Projection writing assignment

Wednesday
Pre-AP Readings and Exercises An Introduction to Nonfiction--Issues of Comprehension: Denotation
Multiple choice passage, stems and distractors practice for the PSAT
Journal: Introduction to sentences in Grade Ten Honors English prose assignments

1. Simple
2. Compound
3. Complex
4. Compound-Complex

Thursday
CAHSEE writing task assigned; prewriting due Monday
Vocabulary diagnostic administered
Pre-AP Readings and Exercises: An Introduction to Nonfiction continues with "Gift of the Magi" O. Henry
Perspectives In Multicultural Literature selections from Secondary Periodic Assessment-Persuasion unit

Friday
Grade Ten Honors English syllabus due today signed by student and parent
Turn It In account verification due today
Dialectical journal Part I Fahrenheit 451 due today for class discussion
Check STUDYPATH for next week's assignments and class information

Summer Introduction to Honors Tenth Grade English

Welcome students to Honors Tenth Grade English 2013-2014!

An updated syllabus and Week One blog will be posted at the beginning of August.  Classes begin on Tuesday, August 13.

You may wish to familiarize yourself with the novels scheduled for this yearlong course.  Access the textbook and novel photos by downloading the document on Box (at right of this blog).  We will complete reading assignments and dialectical journals on Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird.  Plays scheduled for this year include The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles.  The textbooks are Holt Elements of Literature Fourth Course, Pre-AP Readings and Exercises, Holt Handbook, Perspectives in Multicultural Literature and Vocabulary Workshop.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact me at jcarmicl@lausd.net and I will respond.