English 10 Second Semester Overview
Hero’s Journey Continued ► “The True Story of Troy” ► “The Iliad” ► “Troy” ► Notebook ► Final Essay
Night ► Documentary Video ► Notebook ► Essay
Schindler’s List ► Viewing of the movie ► Notebooks ► Analysis
The Analysis GPT ► The Graduation Performance Task: Working with “The Tools of the Trade” ► Compare two works: Night, Things Fall Apart, “The Iliad,” “Schindler’s List,” etc. ► Design of the GPT prompt and submission to the Edmonds School District ► Analysis Tasks ► Rubrics and Scoring
WASL ► WASL Writing ► Prompts ► Rubrics and Scoring ► WASL Reading ► Questions ► Rubrics and Scoring
English 10 Project ► Edmonds Research Process ► Find your passion ► Research it: ► PowerPoint ► Music ► Video ► Present: Teach the Class for a Day
Independent Reading ► Come to Class as Character Day ► Other ideas forthcoming... ► Evidence the book was read during this semester will be collected.
Things Fall Apart ► “Shaka Zulu” and anthropological musings ► Standard quizzes, exams, and papers
End of the Year ► Late May beginning of Teach the Class for a Day PRESENTATIONS ► Essay final (what’d you expect? Cookies?) ► Have a GREAT summer!!!
Your Ideas??? ► Occasional discussions ► Your input towards improving the class