Honors English 10
Textbook: Prentice Hall’s Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes:World Masterpieces (This is not the regular English 10th grade book). Almost all of the stories are in the textbook.
Summer: • Mythologyby Edith Hamilton • Annotation of entire book for comprehension and detail • Diction • Key Passages • Patterns • Analysis
Fall Semester • World Religious Unit: • Judaism: • “Abraham and Isaac” (not in book) • “Book of Ruth” • “Psalm 23” • Islam: • From the Qur’an: “The Exordium,” “Night,” “Daylight,” “Comfort”
Hinduism: • Mahabharata: “Sibi” • Bhagavad-Gita: “The Yoga of Knowledge” • Ramayana:“Rama and Ravana in Battle” • Panchatantra:“Numskull and the Rabbit”
Christianity: • “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” (not in book) • Buddhism: • Zen Parables: “A Parable,” “Publishing the Sutras,” “The Taste of Banzo’s Sword”
Ancient Greece and Rome Unit: • Poeticsby Aristotle (not in book) • Oedipus the King • Poems by Catullus • “Carpe Diem” by Horace • Metamorphoses: “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” • From the Annals: “The Burning of Rome” • Drama (Antigone)
The Middle Ages Unit: • “Song of Roland” • “Perceval: The Grail” • “The Lady of the Werewolf” • “Sir Galahad” • Divine Comedy: Inferno Canto I, III, V, XXXIV • “The Art of Translation”
The Renaissance and Rationalism Unit: • Poems by Petrarch • Shakespeare: • Much Ado About Nothing • Sonnet 29 & 116 • Decameron: “Federigo’s Falcon” • Don Quixote Chapters I, VII, VIII • “Leonardo: The Eye, The Hand, The Mind”
Romanticism Unit: • Poems by Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine • Drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • “Two Friends”
Winter Reading • Novel (Lord of the Flies) Winter Reading • Annotation of entire book for comprehension and detail • Diction • Key Passages • Patterns • Analysis
THE ESSAY • to write a biographical narrative and a cause-effect essay. Standards W2.1, W2.3, W1.1, W1.2, W1.4, W1.9, LC1.3, LC1.4, LC1.5. • to write for assessment (on-demand writing). Standards W1.1, W1.2, W1.4, W1.9, LC1.3.
WRITING AND GRAMMAR • punctuation: commas, semicolons, and colons. Standard LC1.1. • phrases: participial phrases, appositive phrases, prepositional phrases, gerund phrases, infinitive phrases. Standard LC1.1.
READING, LITERATURE, AND LITERACY • these literary terms and concepts: allusion, antagonist, autobiography, biography, character, characterization, critical review, dialogue, direct characterization, dynamic character, genre, flat character, indirect characterization, motivation, parable, protagonist, round character, static character, suspense, symbol. Standards R1.1, R3.7. • characterization in literature. Standards R3.3, R3.4.
Spring: • The Realism Unit: • “A Problem” • “A Doll House”
Modern World Unit: • Poems by Boris Pasternak • “The Bracelet” • “War” • “The Guitar” • “Ithaka” • “The Glass of Milk” • Novel (Night) • Poetry
Contemporary World Unit: • “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” • “House Taken Over” • “Half Day”
THE ESSAY • to write a response to literature essay and a business letter. W2.2, W2.5, W1.1, W1.2, W1.4, W1.9, LC1.3, LC1.4, LC1.5. • to write for assessment (on-demand writing). Standards W1.1, W1.2, W1.4, W1.9, LC1.3.
WRITING AND GRAMMAR • punctuation: apostrophes, brackets, dashes, ellipsis, exclamation marks, hyphens, quotation marks, parentheses, question marks, slashes. Standard LC1.1. • diction and syntax. — LC1.3. • relative clauses. Standard LC1.1.
READING, LITERATURE, AND LITERACY • these literary terms and concepts: assonance, consonance, couplet, enjambment, haiku, legend, lyric poem, myth, narrative poem, octave, onomatopoeia, parody, quatrain, sensory language, sestet, sonnet, speaker, tanka villanelle. Standards R1.1, R3.7. • to identify and describe the function of dialogue, scene designs, soliloquies, asides, and character foils in dramatic literature. Standard R3.10. • word derivations. Standard R1.1. • connotation and denotation. Standard R1.2.
