English 10 Honors Ms. Meghan Reid Period 1: Room A212: A, B, and C Days Period 3: Room 245: A, C, and D Days

Contact Information and Availability Meghan Reid , x5745 s preferred Availability Before school in Room A212 daily During lunch by appointment After school in Room A212Tuesday-Friday (appointmentspreferred) Writing Lab– Media Center--Lunch

Essential Questions Marking Period 1: Influences on Perception How do our Family and/or Social Class AffectUs? Marking Period 2: The Human Condition To What Extent do Individuals Control theirown Lives? Marking Period 3: Ideal Relationships What Is a Hero? Marking Period 4: Emotional Response What Makes Something Frightening?

Anchor Texts and Literature Explored MP1: “A Christmas Memory”- Truman Capote, “Shooting Dad”- Sarah Vowell,“My Papa’s Waltz”- Theodore Roethke MP2: “The Fatalist”*- Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Superman and Me”*- ShermanAlexie, “The Road Less Traveled”*-Robert Frost MP3: “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”*- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “OnBeing a Cripple”*- Nancy Mairs, “OCaptain, My Captain”*- Walt Whitman MP4: “The Cask of Amontillado”*- Edgar Allan Poe, “Regarding the Pain ofOthers”*- Susan Sontag, “Fear”*-Raymond Carver

Ms. Reid’s Teacher Website

Turnitin.com The originality report teaches students about plagiarism and encourages original work Grademark allows teachers to make comments on student work online– Students will have an online portfolio of their work, and they can use turnitin.com to track commonly made mistakes