English

English 1/2 Syllabus Students cover specific themes within the text that include story, plays, poetry, and nonfiction. Novels are also included as a supplemental assignment. Study of these forms provides the basis for student writing in a variety of modes, which reflect the California State Standards in the language arts. In addition, students respond to literature through speaking and listening activities. Students study vocabulary, conventions of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. English Standards Reading Standards for Literature Grades 9-10 HS.RL.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. HS.RL.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details: provide an objective summary of the text. Writing Standards HS.W.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * Course Description **

4. Textbooks are checked out at the start of a course, documented by the teacher onto a Google Docs sheet and shared with the Registrar so that there are accurate checkouts and returns of textbooks. Textbooks are expected to be returned when the course is completed.
 * Textbook & Materials **
 * 1) Holt, Rinehart, Winston: Elements of Literature, Third Course
 * 2) Selection of short novels and other reading materials
 * 3) Materials: Students are expected to bring pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, and completed assignments to every appointment.


 * Classroom Conduct & Policies **
 * 1) Students are expected to sign-in in the front office and are escorted by their teacher.
 * 2) Students are expected to respect one another
 * 3) Students are expected to follow district dress code policy.

Student use of technology should be kept to a minimum when student is working on assignments.
 * Cell Phones & Electronic Devices **

Grading Scale 90% - 100% = A 80% - 89% = B 70% - 79% = C 60% - 69% = D < 59% = F Assignments 60% Homework (Accounts for attendance and work assigned) 10% Unit projects (written, visual, or project based) 15% Units Test (10) (written, visual, or project based) 15% Final Exam (written, visual, or project based)

For Independence High School, completed weekly assignments equates to full attendance for the week. Missing assignments will also affect grades and the amount of credits earned. If a student can not keep the appointment, they shall call the teacher and reschedule for another day within the week.
 * Attendance Policies **

Parental involvement is critical to our student’s success. We reach out to our parents through phone calls, Remind messages, emails, and home visits. We communicate with our Counselors and Principal, and when warranted, the Student and Employee Welfare department at the District level. We encourage students to keep their appointment throughout the week, work past their minimum one hour appointment time, and assist our students in setting up a realistic work schedule at home based on their circumstances. We discuss their missing credits, how to recover them and we examine as many strategies as possible in order to best serve our students. **__American Literature 5/6__** Students study American poetry, non-fiction, drama, the short story and the novel with a particular emphasis on the American experience and how writers observe various aspects of that experience. Study of these forms provides the basis for student writing in a variety of modes, which reflect the California State Standards in the language arts. Students study vocabulary, conventions of grammar and punctuation, and writing style. Assignments 60% Homework (Accounts for attendance and work assigned) 10% Unit projects (written, visual, or project based) 15% Units Test (10) (written, visual, or project based) 15% Final Exam (written, visual, or project based) Grading Scale:
 * Parental Policies **

59 and below - F 60 - 69% - D  70 - 79% - C  80 - 89% - B  90 - 100% - A

**//__World Literature 7/8__//** Students study world literature—poetry, non-fiction, Shakespearean drama, the short story, and the novel—with a particular emphasis on social and cultural comparison and universal literary themes. Study of these forms provides the basis for student writing in a variety of modes, which reflect the California State Standards in the language arts. Students study advanced vocabulary, writing style, critical reading, and composition skills.

Reading Standards for Literature HS.RL.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inference drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

HS.W.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. Objective: To complete reading selected materials, responding to writing prompts; To learn and use new vocabulary terms; To edit and rewrite essay assignments.
 * Writing Standards **

Assignments 60% Homework (Accounts for attendance and work assigned) 10% Unit projects (written, visual, or project based) 15% Units Test (10) (written, visual, or project based) 15% Final Exam (written, visual, or project based)

Grading Scale:

59 and below - F

60 - 69% - D

70 - 79% - C

80 - 89% - B

90 - 100% - A

** Research Paper Instructions ** [|http://www.questianewsletter.com/newsletter/volume-7-issue-01/index.htm#featurette] **Literature Report Instructions** Part of your English requirement is to read novels along with your other assignments. In order to qualify for passing, you will need to do some outside reading assigned by your most benevolent instructor. Follow the directions below to show that you understand the novel you are to read. You will also be expected to pass a test on the novel that might include some essay questions related to the book. It is important to keep a journal (Chapter Summaries) while you read and make it part of your report so that it will help you remember what the book is about, what’s happening, who the characters are, and something about the plot of the book. Your journal can used to help you compete the following assignment and perhaps pass the final on the book. The following tasks are to be written up neatly and presented as a report done in dark blue or black ink, or preferably typed. You may also submit your work by email to: cu8detp@earthlink.net Fiction or Nonfiction @http://www.flocabulary.com/fiction-vs-nonfiction/ ** What to do: ** • Make a cover or title page that includes the title and author of the book, as well as your own. Include a Table of content page listing each section and page number. The report should have a section with heading for characters, setting, discuss the problem, opinion/criticism, and information about the author.

• Make a list of the most important characters in the book. Remember, sometimes an inanimate object might be a character or have some importance in the story. For each of the (important) characters: 1. List their name 2. Find and write at least 6 quotes from the novel that reveals something about each character (include the page number where you found the quote). 3. Writ e what each quote tells you about the character. What did you think or find out about the character? • After discussing the characters, write about the setting of the book. Remember to include the time period. You might want to make a timeline to show the passage of time and events. This can be either written or done as pictures, or as a combination of both. • Discuss the problem in the story. How does this affect the main character and his/her actions? What would you (the student) do differently from the main character? • What is the solution to the problem? How is the conflict resolved in the story? Is the ending how you expected, explain your answer. If you were to rewrite the ending of the story, what would it be? • Create a poster, book jacket, or advertisement, etc. for the book. You want others to read this book (even if you didn’t like it!) • Write a short, half page, opinion/criticism of the novel. What did you think? Did it have any effect on you in think about life? • Go on the Internet and find information about the author of the book. Write a short half page or more about the author and include at the end of the report. Remember: The report and all its parts must be your own work. Do not download from the Internet and make it part of your report. Use your own words, summarize the information.


 * English Standards **

HS.RL.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 * Reading standards for Literature **
 * Grades 9-10 **

HS.RL.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details: provide an objective summary of the text.

HS.W.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * Writing Standards **

HS.RL.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inference drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
 * Grades 11-12 **
 * Reading Standards for Literature **

HS.W.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * Writing Standards **

** Short Novel Quizzes ** Brave New World media type="custom" key="27997963"

Night media type="custom" key="26740320"

Fahrenheit 451 media type="custom" key="23835026"

Time Machine media type="custom" key="16509306"

The Jungle Vocabulary, define the terms: absinthe, albumen, alchemist, anarchist, arbitration, automaton, benignant, besiege, besom, bigamist, billet, blacklist, bog, bullocks, caper, chafing,charnel, chicanery, chloroform, clangor, colloquy, conjurer, consumption, debauchery, dyspepsia, eloquent, glutted,hack, helter-skelter, impropriety, impunity, incandescent, incarnation, injunction, laissez faire, monopoly, oligarchy, pathos, prodigy, tacit, tenement media type="custom" key="12193634"

To Kill a Mockingbird media type="custom" key="11516472"

Tortilla Flat media type="custom" key="10560920"

A Separate Peace media type="custom" key="9620262"

Of Mice and Men Vocabulary, define the terms. recumbent, lumbered, emerge, morosely, imperiously, dejected, scoff, plaintively, majesty, profound, precede, confident, entranced, reprehensible, conceal, sarcasm, deliberate, aloof, meager, contemptuously,ego, liniment, belligerent, monotonous, retorted, woodenly, and mottled media type="custom" key="9195748" Death of a Salesman media type="custom" key="7839557"

Frankenstein media type="custom" key="7839537" The Red Badge of Courage media type="custom" key="7839507"

Chocolate Wars media type="custom" key="7839477" Roll Over, Big Toben media type="custom" key="7369119"

The Catcher on the Rye Vocabulary, define the terms: affected, Annapolis, asthma, bellboy, boardwalk, bourgeois, bunk, caddy, canasta, carrousel, Central Park, Charles Dickens, chiffonier, chisel, cliques, cockeyed, cocktail, digression, Doberman pinscher, double-decker bus, dough, falsetto, fantastic, foyer, fraternity, furlough, galoshes, glider, goose, Grand Central Station, Great Dane, and grippe. media type="custom" key="4747923"

The Call of the Wild by Jack London media type="custom" key="4747917"

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte media type="custom" key="4143399" Romeo and Juliet media type="custom" key="4396025"

The Crucible media type="custom" key="4404295"

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck media type="custom" key="4083009" The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Vocabulary, define the terms: Abuelita, abuelito, fuchsia, churros, corajes, media type="custom" key="4053293"

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton media type="custom" key="3922423"

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway media type="custom" key="3921723"

The Pearl Chapter 1 Quiz media type="custom" key="20554366" The Pearl Chapter 2 Quiz media type="custom" key="20554372" The Pearl Chapter 3 Quiz media type="custom" key="20554376" The Pearl Chapter 4 Quiz media type="custom" key="20554388" The Pearl Chapter 5 Quiz media type="custom" key="20554392" Chapter 6 Quiz media type="custom" key="20554396" The Pearl Test media type="custom" key="9432360"

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald media type="custom" key="3804547"

Sidhartha by Herman Hesse media type="custom" key="25207828"

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne media type="custom" key="3804957"

Lord of the Flies by William Golding media type="custom" key="4046551"

Animal Farm by George Orwell media type="custom" key="25659636"

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan media type="custom" key="3884677"

Things Fall Apart media type="custom" key="9359148"

I know Why the Gage Bird Sings media type="custom" key="11261304"