Here is what is Generally what is known by the end of 10th Grade with a printable.
Reading
– Daily reading
– Log and track progress
Language Arts
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Research
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
– Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct quotations,
– summarizing in own words)
– Construct a works cited page
– Apply criteria to evaluate sources
– Conduct a thorough media center search
– Short Story
– Students will comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
– Speaking
– Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
– Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture,
– and gestures.
– Use standard language and grammar.
– Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be
– conveyed.
– Prepare a formal outline
– Create an interesting introduction and conclusion
– Fully develop the main points of a speech
– Organize the body of a speech using effective transitions
– Create a works cited with multiple sources
– Take research notes
– Create and support a clear thesis
– Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Writing
– Write a response to literature.
– Create and defend a clear thesis.
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Use effective transitions.
– Create interesting introductions and conclusions.
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature and/or
– personal experiences.
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage.
– Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure.
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision, peer
– editing and final draft).
– Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
– Explain how the structural elements (exposition, complication, climax and
– denouement) of a short story contribute to the overall effect.
– Analyze character development in a short story.
– Analyze theme in a given short story.
– Analyze conflict in a given short story.
– Identify and explain the type of irony (situational, verbal and dramatic) in a short
– story.
– Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works. Identify and explain figures of speech in various literary works.
– Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work.
– Make predictions and ask questions while reading.
– Make connections to characters and situations.
– Public Speaking Unit
– Students will demonstrate mastery of public speaking fundamentals through a series of three short speeches.
– Speaking
– Listening
– Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
– Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures
– Use standard language and grammar
– Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed
– Prepare a formal outline
– Create an interesting introduction and conclusion
– Fully develop the main points of a speech
– Organize the body of a speech using effective transitions
– Create a works cited with multiple sources
– Take research notes
– Create and support a clear thesis
– Clearly and effectively speak to persuade an audience on a specific topic.
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Make eye contact with the speaker
– Use non-verbal signals to show understanding
– Show understanding in a variety of ways (following directions, answering
– questions, etc.) • Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate non-fiction.
– Analyze the main idea in a non-fiction work
– Identify author’s level of expertise and/or bias in a non-fiction work Draw their own conclusions from a work of non-fiction
– Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work
– Research
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes. Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct
– quotations, summarizing in own words) Construct a works cited page
– Create and defend a clear thesis
– Analyze and organize information to support a thesis
– Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources
– Conduct a thorough media center search
– Business Unit / Mock Interview Fair
– Students will create an application, cover letter, resume, and thank you letter and participate in a mock interview.
– Optional Novel
– Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills while studying a novel of the teacher’s choosing.
– Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Writing
– Write a response to literature.
– Create and defend a clear thesis.
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Use effective transitions
– Create interesting introductions and conclusions
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
– or personal experience
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage
– Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
– Clearly and effectively speak to persuade an audience on a specific topic.
– Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures
– Use standard language and grammar
– Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Make eye contact with the speaker
– Use non-verbal signals to show understanding
– Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar.
– Apply reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in order to explore career pathways.
– Complete a job application with references
– Create a clear, concise cover letter that is nearly error free Generate a resume using proper format
– Complete formal interview process with school business partner
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision, peer editing and final draft)
– Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar. • Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate novels.
– Explain how the structural elements of a novel contribute to the overall effect. Analyze character development in a novel
– Analyze theme in a novel
– Analyze conflict in a novel
– Identify and explain the type of irony in a novel
– Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works Identify and explain figures of speech in various literary works
– Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work
– Make predictions and ask questions while reading
– Make connections to characters and situations
– Persuasive Writing / Research
– Students will demonstrate writing and research skills while creating a persuasive essay.
– Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Writing
– Write a persuasive essay.
– Create and defend a clear thesis
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Identify audience and purpose.
– Express and develop clear opinions.
– Use effective transitions
– Create engaging introductions and conclusions
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples, statistics,
– anecdotal records, and/or personal experience
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage
– Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision,
– peer editing and final draft)
– Include countering statements in their arguments
– Utilize standard grammar and usage in writing and revising:
– Use correct punctuation in sentences with embedded parts (appositives, adjective clauses and participial phrases, and interrupters)
– Correctly punctuate adverb clauses and participial phrases at the beginning of a sentence
– Identify and correct run on sentences and sentence fragments
– Identify and correct subject-verb agreement
– Identify and correct errors in pronoun-antecedent usage and pronoun cases
– Correctly punctuate essential and non-essential clauses and phrases
– Use proper and consistent tense in writing
– Limit the use of passive verbs in favor of strong action verbs
– Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar
– Use correct punctuation in sentences with embedded parts (appositives, restrictive
– and non-restrictive, clauses and phrases, and interruptions)
– Use all parts of speech correctly
– Recognize and use a variety of sentence structures
– Use correct capitalization and spelling
– Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate non-fiction
– Research
– Analyze the main idea in a non-fiction work
– Identify author’s level of expertise and/or bias in a non-fiction work Draw his or her own conclusions from a work of non-fiction
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
– Utilize correct MLA format for a research paper including parenthetical documentation
– Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct quotations, summarizing in own words)
– Construct a works cited page
– Create and defend a clear thesis
– Analyze and organize information to support a thesis
– Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources
– Conduct a thorough media center search
– Nonfiction/Thematic Short Story Unit
– Students will comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
– • Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Writing
– Write a response to literature.
– Create and defend a clear thesis.
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Use effective transitions.
– Create interesting introductions and conclusions.
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
– and/or personal experiences.
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage. Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure.
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision,
– peer editing and final draft). • Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
– Explain how the structural elements (exposition, complication, climax and
– denouement) of a short story contribute to the overall effect.
– Analyze character development in a short story.
– Analyze theme in a given short story.
– Analyze conflict in a given short story.
– Identify and explain the type of irony (situational, verbal and dramatic) in a short
– story.
– Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works. Identify and explain figures of speech in various literary works.
– Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work.
– Make predictions and ask questions while reading.
– Make connections to characters and situations.
– Honors: Of Mice and Men
– Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills while studying Of Mice and Men.
– Research
– Locate, consult, and cite information from reliable sources about a relevant mini-
– topic (Possible topics: John Steinbeck, Great Depression, migrant workers in
– the 1930s, mental health discrimination in the 1930s, gender roles, geographical location, American Dream).
– Prepare a Works Cited page using MLA format • Speaking
– Speak with clarity and purpose during class and small group discussions.
– Speak with appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact,
– posture, and gestures.
– Use standard language and grammar.
– Writing
– Use the six traits of writing (content, organization, conventions, voice, sentence fluency and word choice).
– Create a thesis statement to guide and frame writing.
– Use conventions of standard written English.
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples.
– Explore ideas and personal reactions to the novel through informal writing (e.g.,
– practice writings, journaling). • Listening
– Use listening skills in practical settings.
– Adapt listening skills for specific purposes. • Reading
– Read non-fiction to complete research.
– Define and learn critical vocabulary prior to reading.
– Use background knowledge from class research topics to enhance understanding
– of the novel’s historical and cultural contexts.
– Read for literal, interpretive, and evaluative comprehension.
– Demonstrate the ability to analyze elements of fiction through identifying and
– applying knowledge of theme, characterization, and setting.
– Of Mice and Men
– Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills while studying Of Mice and Men.
– Speaking
– Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
– Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures
– Use standard language and grammar
– Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed
– Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Writing
– Write a response to literature.
– Create and defend a clear thesis.
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Use effective transitions
– Create interesting introductions and conclusions
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
– or personal experience
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision, peer editing and final draft)
– Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar.
– Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate novels.
– Explain how the structural elements of a novel contribute to the overall effect. Analyze character development in a novel
– Analyze theme in a novel
– Analyze conflict in a novel
– Identify and explain the type of irony in a novel
– Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works Identify and explain figures of speech in various literary works
– Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work
– Make predictions and ask questions while reading
– Make connections to characters and situations
– Research
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
– Utilize correct MLA format for a research paper including parenthetical documentation
– Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct quotations, summarizing in own words)
– Construct a works cited page Create and defend a clear thesis
– Analyze and organize information to support a thesis
– Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources
– Conduct a thorough media center search
– Antigone / Drama
– Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills while studying Antigone.
– Speaking
– Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
– Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures
– Use standard language and grammar
– Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed
– Prepare a formal outline
– Create an interesting introduction and conclusion
– Fully develop the main points of a speech
– Organize the body of a speech using effective transitions Create a works cited with multiple sources
– Take research notes
– Create and support a clear thesis
– Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Write a response to literature. Create and defend a clear thesis.
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Use effective transitions
– Create interesting introductions and conclusions
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
– or personal experience
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision,
– peer editing and final draft)
– Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar.
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate drama.
– Explain how the structural elements of tragedy (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe) contribute to the overall effect.
– Analyze character development in tragedy Analyze theme in a play
– Analyze conflict in a play
– Identify and explain the type of irony in a play
– Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works Identify and explain figures of speech(simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
– personification) in various literary works
– Analyze the author’s purpose in a play.
– Make predictions and ask questions while reading Make connections to characters and situations
– Research
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes. Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct
– quotations, summarizing in own words)
– Construct a works cited page
– Create and defend a clear thesis
– Analyze and organize information to support a thesis
– Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources
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Math
– Algebra
Social Studies
– World History
– Geography
Science
– Chemistry
Visual/Performance
– Dance, Music, Arts
– Drawing and Coloring
– Connect the dots
– Hands on Crafts
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