February 9-June 19,2009 DRAFT
Semester B Syllabus
Grade Ten Honors English 2008-2009
Instructional Dates/Material To Be Covered/Semester "B"
Week One
Opening Week Activities: Late Work Policy; Secondary Periodic Assessment Response to Literature Diagnostic; Bradbury Biography and Introduction to Fahrenheit 451; Preparation for Exposition Secondary Periodic Assessment
Presidents Day Holiday February 16, 2009
Week Two
Fahrenheit 451 Part One "The Hearth and the Salamander"; Imitative Writing from Fahrenheit 451; Talking Points Part One and Class Discussion; Exposition Secondary Periodic Assessment administered
Week Three
Fahrenheit 451 Part Two "The Sieve and the Sand"; Talking Points and Class Discussion
Week Four
Fahrenheit 451 Part Three "Burning Bright"; Talking Points and Class Discussion
Week Five
Literary Genre: Play
Introduction to Greek Tragedy and Sophocles; Before You Read Antigone; The Myth of Oedipus; To Kill A Mockingbird Part One: Chapters One-Five
Week Six
Antigone: Prologue and Parados
Week Seven
Antigone: Scene One and Ode One; Scene Two and Ode Two
Week Eight
Antigone: Scene Three and Ode Three; Scene Four and Ode Four
SPRING BREAK April 6-10, 2009
Week Nine
Antigone: Scene Five, Paean, and Exodos
Week Ten
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twenty Six to Thirty-One
Week Eleven
To Kill A Mockingbird Part One: Chapters One-Five
Week Twelve
To Kill A Mockingbird Part One: Chapters Six-Eleven
Memorial Day Holiday May 25, 2009
Week Thirteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twelve-Fifteen
Week Fourteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Sixteen-Twenty
Week Fifteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twenty-One to Twenty-Five
Week Sixteen
To Kill A Mockingbird Part Two: Chapters Twenty Six to Thirty-One
Week Seventeen
To Be Announced
Week Eighteen
To Be Announced
Useful Web Sites
Online Writing Labs http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Composition formatting
Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/
Vocabulary for the AP student
Strunk and White http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
Rules of style for written prose
Teacher Web Log http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments due
Apex Learning http://www.apexvs.com/
AP diagnostic tests; literary terms; study strategies
Go My Access/Vantage Learning http://www.gomyaccess.com
Intellimetric prompts and rubric-scored writing
