Student
Syllabus: AMERICAN LITERATURE, 10TH ADVANCED
Course
Description: This class meets Monday through Friday for 90
minutes. The coursework will focus on the culture of the U.S. as expressed in
its literature and will explore the theme of AMERICA – SELF & SOCIETY.
The course will be divided into 3 units:
Unit I – Our Unique Voices
Unit II – Oppression & Persecution
Unit III – Active Members of Society
Each day when you enter class you will see an outline of what will
be covered in that day’s lesson. In addition, there will be a Writing Prompt either in a
handout on your desk, written on the board or projected by an overhead. You
will respond to the text by writing a paragraph thinking about what you have
just read..
This
will be a Quick Write paragraph: the goal is to create a fast response
paragraph as quickly as possible. When finished please put down your pen/pencil
and remain quiet, so when can start on the day’s lesson.
Reading strategies, writing, vocabulary development, and grammar study will be keyed to the literary selections and lessons. Research and audio-visual materials will supplement classwork. Learning will be geared to diverse learning styles and achieved through cooperative group learning, peer tutoring, individual learning, lectures, and class discussion.
Course
Objectives:
Students will demonstrate the ability to:
• Interpret, connect, and critique assigned literary selections.
• Write on diverse topics in several genres to specific audiences
for various purposes.
• Identify and apply the conventions of Standard English.
• Gather and record specific information using customary research
techniques.
Texts:
• Elements of Literature, 2000, Fourth Course, with Readings
in World Literature / Grade 10 Holt Rinehart Winston
• Elements of Literature, 2000, Fifth Course, Literature of
the United States / Grade 11 Holt Rinehart Winston
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller, edited by Gerald Weales
• Other novel(s) as
assigned
• Dictionary
Student
Materials:
Every day, students should have the following:
• writing materials (paper, pens, and pencils);
• a 3-ring, loose-leaf notebook divided into four sections:
1) CLASSWORK (syllabus, notes, handouts, in-class work)
2) HOMEWORK
3) READER’S - WRITER’S LOG
4) GLOSSARY (lists of vocabulary words, definitions of parts
of speech & literary terms)
Grading
Policy:
40% - Classwork (Attendance, completion of Writing Prompts,
Reader’s – Writer’s log, in-class work, homework, activities, participation,
and behavior)
30% - Tests and Quizzes
30% - Writing, Student chosen ‘best’ Writing Prompt of the week
and Research Projects
• Classwork will be graded using the attached Assignment Rubric.
• Test and Quizzes will be graded based on type:
Short answer grading will
be based on the correctness of the answer with maximum latitude given if the
student provides adequate support.
Essay questions
will be graded following the attached Essay Test Rubric.
• Papers and Reports will be graded using the attached 6-Trait Scoring Rubric.
**Educational Golden Rule**
Do what helps the education of yourself and your classmates.
• Follow school and class policies and procedures.
• Come to class daily, on time, with work materials.
• Enter class quietly and begin working on the daily writing
prompt (on Fridays begin free reading or writing).
• ALWAYS remember why you are here: To Learn!
• Be courteous to your teacher and your classmates.
Make-up Work: If you miss school for ANY reason, you are
responsible for finding out (from a classmate or the teacher after school) the
work you missed and making it up.
Turning in assignments: You will be asked to turn in your work to
either the class period tray or your individual class folder.
The class tray for each period is on the table next to the door.
Place your work in the appropriate tray in the following manner:
• All tests & quizzes when completed and/or when time is
called by the teacher.
• All papers and projects as soon as enter class on the day they
are due.
• All homework at the end of the class on the day it is due.
(Often previous night’s homework will be used for that day’s discussion.)
There is a class file folder holder for each period on the table
in the back of the room. When you enter class remove your folder from the
appropriate file holder.
At the end of class leave your folder on top of your desk for me
to pick up.
• Daily Writing Prompts will be turned into your individual class
folder.
Course
Overview:
Procedures and class structure
AMERICA – SELF & SOCIETY
Unit I – Our Unique Voices
AMERICA – SELF & SOCIETY
Unit II – Oppression & Persecution
Readings:
• “The Lottery” - Shirley Jackson (short story)
• The Crucible
- Arthur Miller (play)
• “There Is No News From Auschwitz” - A.M. Rosenthal
(essay/editorial)
Note:
Assorted poems and quotations will be read for the Monday through Thursday
writing prompts
AMERICA – SELF & SOCIETY
Unit III – Active Members of Society
Students will learn through reading, writing, research, and
discussion to analyze, evaluate, and appreciate the traditions and diversity of
American culture and in themselves as expressed in its literature. They will
explore Grammar, writing, and vocabulary development through the lessons and
reading selections.
Daily
Expectations:
Students will
• Receive credit for class participation
• Receive credit for following directions.
• Receive credit for consideration of and cooperation with others.
• Have credit deducted for failing to do the above.
• Be expected to begin work on the writing prompt as soon as they
enter class and take their seat. This writing prompt will be placed in the
students work folder and will be checked weekly by the teacher.
• Be expected to begin reading and/or writing as soon as they
enter class and take their seat of Free Fridays.
• Be expected to participate in daily activities and in-class
work.
• Be allowed four absences without grade penalty (Exceptions will
be made for extraordinary events only. So stay out only when you absolutely
have to!)
• Arrive to class on time.
Weekly
Expectations:
• Homework assignments will usually be given on Mondays and
Wednesdays and will be due the following day unless otherwise specified.
• Fridays will be a block of uninterrupted time in which students
will read and/or write in their Reader’s - Writer’s log. Every second Friday
(starting the third or fourth week of classes depending on your class period)
you will turn in your Reader’s - Writer’s log.( Rief, 276)
In your Reader’s - Writer’s log you will
a)
Respond to/reflect on what you have been reading with three to
five pages of writing per week.
b)
Find at least three words per week, which are new or unknown from
the book(s) you have read.
c)
Write those words in the log with date found, citing reference and
sentence of context in which the word was found, and the dictionary definition
in your own words. (Rief, 31)
• Quizzes will be given every other week on either Mondays or
Wednesdays. Instead of Makeup quizzes, your best three quizzes of the semester will
be counted. If an exceptional circumstance arises, see the teacher after
school.
Semester
Expectations:
Students will:
• Complete three writing projects (one for each unit).
The first writing project (in the first unit) will be made up of 2
drafts and a final paper. The 1st draft will be peered reviewed in
class using the 6-Trait Scoring Rubric. The 2nd draft will be
reviewed by the teacher and returned to the student with suggestions and
comments, and a final product will be turned into the
teacher and will be graded using the 6-Trait Scoring Rubric.
When writing papers you will use the MLA format to cite your works
used. (see attached sheet) Your papers as well as your other writing will be
graded using the 6-Trait Scoring Rubric (see attached sheet). You will also use
this rubric to evaluate your own writing and also (when assigned) to evaluate
your peers writing.
• Complete at least one book report on a student chosen (and
teacher approved) book.
• Read multiple types of texts (novels, short stories, essays,
oral histories, poems, etc.) in American Literature.
• Take a Midterm and Final Exam.
REFERENCES:
Rief, Linda. Seeking Diversity:
Language Arts With Adolescents. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann,1992.
http://www.cox-internet.com/ruskhslib/cited.htm
Formatting
the Works Cited page:
The
top margin for the Works Cited page should be set at 2". Left, right
and bottom margins should be 1". Type the title, Works Cited, with
the first letter of each word capitalized. Center the title on the page
and triple space after the title. Begin each Works Cited entry at the
left margin. If the entry takes up more than one line, indent the next line(s)
5 spaces. Alphabetize works cited entries by the first letter of the
first word of each entry, whether it is an author's last name, editor's last
name, or the title (excluding a, an,or the). Double space
entries that take up two or more lines and double space between each reference.
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Jefferson, and the Opening of the
American West. Chicago: MacMillan,
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A book with two
authors
Moore,
Harold G. and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once...And
Young. New York: Random House,
1992.
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more than two authors (et al means "and others" in Latin)
Ottoman,
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A book with
two or three editors, but no author
Tyson,
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A book with no
author and no editor
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An article
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the book)
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An
excerpt from a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series
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DVD
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that person's name.)
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