10th Grade Language Arts

Mrs. Sharon Landsman

   

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This course works on elements of fiction, non fiction, poetry, drama, and how to apply them to literature. Students are expected to find definitions of vocabulary words and to spell and match them correctly. Students also will know how to proofread and correct grammar in a sentence, and practice writing skills and abstract thinking.  This is a full year course.

Grammar writing and vocabulary is also in all quarters.   

 

 

 

 

Quarter 1: Work with friction and nonfiction to interpret messages and make connections in personal lives. focus on authors intent of the selection and how it relates to history.
Quarter 2: Work mainly in more depth with historical connection of literature along with style of writing such as formal, informal archaic or journalistic.

Quarter 3:

 Take historical connection of literature to a new level of understanding with periods throughout time, some examples (Anglo-Saxon, renaissance, to modern and contemporary). Reading nonfiction for clarity and relevance, credibility, supporting data. Become familiar with forms of writing such as memos, letters. essays., resumes and point-of-view.

Quarter 4:

 Analysis of novels such as Issac Asimals science fiction, diary of Anne Frank, and Tuesdays with Morrie. Work on how to document sources on a bibliography.