English 10
English 10 is a world literature survey course. The course covers literary terminology, vocabulary building, test taking strategies, and several literary genres including poetry, short story, mythology, drama, essay, and business letters. This course will introduce students to the requirements of the student essay and offers the opportunity to write poetry, short stories and dramatic dialogues. Students will involve themselves in self-assessment as well as in teacher guided practice and assessment throughout the course.
English 10 A
English 10 A includes selections from Nobel Prize in Literature winners and Pulitzer Prize winners. Among the authors and poets included in the course are O. Henry, Jamaica Kincaid, David Guterson, R.K. Narayan, Leo Tolstoy, William Melvin Kelley, Rabindranath Tagore, David Diop, Emily Dickinson, Pat Mora, Vassar Miller, Robert Frost, Bei Dao, Shu ting, William Carlos Williams, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Shakespeare.
English 10 B
English 10 B includes selections from Nobel Prize in Literature winners and Pulitzer Prize winners. Among the authors and poets included in the course are Emily Bronte, Anna Akhmatova, Leopold Staff, Anita Desai, Vladimir Nabokov, Pearl S. Buck, Virginia Woolf, Chinua Achebe, N. Scott Momaday, Elie Wiesel, Vincent Canby and Roger Ebert. We will also read Sophocles's Antigone and Alfred Lord Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur as well as a selection from T.H. White's The Once and Future King.
All courses are written to California Department of Education
standards and to national standards, as applicable.