English 10 Link to English 10 Documents
Tuesday -Discuss American Dream Article reading/ Analysis
Wednesday - Thanksgiving Break
Thursday - Thanksgiving Break
Friday - Thanksgiving Break
No Vocabulary this week!
• RI.9-10.1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
o Develop factual, interpretive, and evaluative questions for further exploration of the
topic(s).
• RI.9-10.2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of the text.
• RI.9-10.3. Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events,
including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed,
and the connections that are drawn between them.
• RI.9-10.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact
of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion
differs from that of a newspaper).
• RI.9-10.5. Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by
particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
• RI.9-10.6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an
author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
• SL.9-10.1. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-
on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts,
and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
• L.9-10.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
o Use parallel structure.*
o Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial,
prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative,
adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or
presentations.
• L.9-10.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
o Use a semicolon (and perhaps a conjunctive adverb) to link two or more closely
related independent clauses.
o Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.
o Spell correctly.
English 10H Link to English 10 H Documents
Tuesday - Watch Of Mice and Men Movie Section
Wednesday - Thanksgiving Break
Thursday - Thanksgiving Break
Friday - Thanksgiving Break
No Vocabulary this week!
No Vocabulary this week!
• RL.9-10.5. Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
• RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
• SL.9-10.1. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-
on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts,
and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
