Stephanye T. Loftin
English Educator
Charles Herbert Flowers High School

Course Syllabus - English 10 Course

Description

With emphasis on analysis, students will actively engage themselves in becoming cogent readers, writers, and speakers for a variety of purposes.  Students will read literary works from a variety of cultures, eras, and rhetorical contexts.  Responding in order to understand, explain, and evaluate a literary work is emphasized.  Grammar study will include information needed for effective and proficient writing and speaking communication.

Required Texts

English 10

Additional Readings

English 10
With emphasis on analysis, students will actively engage themselves in becoming cogent readers, writers, and speakers for a variety of purposes.  Students will read literary works from a variety of cultures, eras, and rhetorical contexts.  Responding in order to understand, explain, and evaluate a literary work is emphasized.  Grammar study will include information needed for effective and proficient writing and speaking communication.

Participation

Built upon the completion of homework and in-class assignments and on compliance with class procedures and expectations, a participation grade will be assessed daily.

Required Materials

An English section with four divisions within your 3-ring binder is needed:  Warm-ups, Classwork/Notes, Homework, and Tests/Quizzes.  For saving your computer documents, a flash drive is required.  Each day bring your notebook, your textbook, and the other supplies as listed below:

Results

Through active questioning and collaboration with others, students are expected to integrate freshly interpreted old knowledge with new information and experiences to construct reading, writing, and verbal skills that are useful to them, that prepare them for future academic work, and that inspire them to become lifelong learners.

Other

Students must also adhere to the terms provided in the Expectations, Policies, Grading, Collaborative Student/Parent/Teacher Agreement,  and Media Center / Computer Lab / Classroom Permission Contract pages in this site.