English 10 Honors

Fourth Quarter

Time / Major Work/Shorter Texts / Standards/Learning Targets / Writing Prompts
Week 1 / Required Major Work(s):
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster
Shorter texts (options):
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
“A Story of an Hour” / Standards
·  RL.10.1-6, 10
·  W.10.2
·  L.10.1-6
Learning Targets:
·  Identify and analyze multiple complex themes in a literary work
·  Support ideas with multiple quotations from multiple sources / After reading several of Kate Chopin’s short stories, what themes emerge? Identify at least one theme present in more than one Chopin short story, and write a short response analyzing how Chopin develops that theme.
Weeks 2-4 / Required Major Work(s):
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Shorter texts (options) / Standards:
·  RL.10.1-6, 10
·  W.10.2
·  L.10.1-6, 9
Learning Targets:
·  Analyze development of motifs in a literary work
·  Identify multiple complex themes in a literary work
·  Support ideas with multiple quotations from multiple sources
·  Explain and elaborate on quotations in a literary essay
·  Integrate quotations, both full and partial, smoothly and effectively
·  Cite poetry and Shakespeare correctly within a literary essay / Digital Project: You will choose a chapter from HTRLLP to apply to The Awakening (whole novel). You will then make an informational film that explores the relationship between the two texts and analyzes The Awakening from your group’s point of view.
Weeks
5-8 / Required Major Work(s):
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Daisy Miller, Henry James
Shorter texts (options): / Standards:
·  RL.10.1-6, 10
·  W.10.2
·  L.10.1-6, 9
Learning Targets:
·  Analyze how characterization develops an author’s themes
·  Analyze development of motifs in a literary work
·  Identify multiple complex themes in a literary work
·  Support ideas with multiple quotations from multiple sources
·  Explain and elaborate on quotations in a literary essay
·  Integrate quotations, both full and partial, smoothly and effectively
·  Provide feedback on a peer’s literary essay
·  Edit and revise writing for clarity / Choose one of the following prompts and write an essay using both texts.
1.  Compare and contrast the characters of Edna Pontellier and Daisy Miller in relation to the authors’ theme(s).
2.  Compare and contrast the characters of Edna Pontellier and Frederick Winterbourne in relation to the authors’ theme(s).
3.  Compare and contrast two other characters from the two novels (for example, Mrs. Costello and Madame Ratignolle, or Robert and Winterbourne) in relation to the authors’ theme(s).
4.  Choose one chapter from Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor and apply it to both The Awakening and Daisy Miller in relation to theme.
Weeks 8-9 / Required Major Work(s):
Shorter texts (options):
Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs / Standards:
·  RI.10.1-6
·  W.10.2
·  L.10.1-6, 9
·  SL.10.1-6
Learning Targets:
·  Research a topic
·  Evaluate credibility and reliability of sources
·  Present information from research in front of the class
·  Use various digital technologies strategically to organize and present information / Small group research and presentation topics:
1.  Process of the Slave Trade: What was the process of the transatlantic slave trade? Trace the journey from the continent to the field. How did slave auctions work? How could a slave become free?
2.  Unspoken rules of being a female slave: What were the expectations? What types of jobs did female slaves do? What was life like for a female slave? How were they treated differently from male slaves?
3.  House slaves vs. Field slaves: What were the different expectations for each? What role did skin color play? What kinds of tension existed between these two groups? Describe the different ways that slaves were ranked on a plantation.
4.  Fugitive Slave Act: What led to the passing of this Act? What did the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) actually say? What impact did it have? What were the consequences for fugitive slaves? What role did the Underground Railroad play during this time?
5.  End of Slavery: What events or factors led to the end of slavery? What role did the abolitionist movement play? What solutions did President Lincoln propose? How, exactly, and when did slavery end? What was life like for escaped or freed slaves in the years that followed?
6.  Comparison between female slave narrative and male slave narrative: Research other slave narratives (Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano). What are the differences between male and female slave narratives? What do they have in common? What issues or audiences did these narratives target? Compare Jacobs’ narrative to Douglass’. What makes Jacobs’ narrative unique?
7.  Controversy of the authorship of the narrative: How was Jacobs’ narrative received by critics? What is the controversy surrounding the authorship of the narrative? Why did she write under a pen name?
8.  Harriet Jacobs: Life after the autobiography: How does she gain her freedom? What was her role as an abolitionist?
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