Students will be supplied with a Home Fun Reading Log, single subject spiral notebook, and Blooms, RT, SSR folder. Some students may wish to have a one inch notebook to keep graded papers, etc. I prefer regular #2 wood pencils (no mechanical pencils please) and blue or black ink pens (no pastel gel pens). Students may borrow pens and pencils on those rare occasions that they leave theirs at home.
Subject Area – Language Arts
Course Title – English 1
Course Number: 1001310
Major Concepts/Content: The purpose of this course is to provide integrated educational experiences in the language arts strands of reading, writing, listening, viewing, speaking, language, and literature.
After successfully completing this course, the student will:
· Use reading strategies effectively to construct meaning from a range of technical, informative, and literary texts.
· Use process writing strategies effectively to meet the needs of a variety of audiences, writers, and types of information being communicated.
· Select and use appropriate speaking, listening, and viewing skills to clarify and interpret meaning in both formal and informal situations.
· Understand the common features of a variety of literary forms.
· Respond critically and aesthetically to literature.
· Demonstrate understanding and use of appropriate language for effective visual, oral, and written communication.
· Select and use a variety of electronic media to create, revise, retrieve, and verify information.
· Demonstrate understanding of the impact of mass media and the regulations that govern its use.
Course Map/Syllabus Outline: The following is offered as an outline only and is not intended to be a detailed account of all activities. All units follow the Sunshine State Standards and Benchmarks for grades 9 and 10; these can be viewed on the Department of Education website at: http://etc.usf.edu/flstandards/la/new-pdfs/points-9-10.pdf
We will be using the Language of Literature text by McDougal Littell which will be supplemented with the corresponding Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics, and FCAT Preparation and Practice books.
Semester 1
Unit 1: The Power of Storytelling – This unit will include FRI strategies such as Reciprocal Teaching, QAR, and GIST. We will focus on Elements of Literature such as plot, setting, characterization, tone, and point of view through the reading of the following fiction: Lamb to the Slaughter, The Most Dangerous Game, Gift of the Magi, The Lottery, The Cask of Amontillado, and With Their Eyes: a nonfiction first-hand accounts of 911. We will also study literary devices, expository writing, and vocabulary development.
Unit 2: All in the Family – FRI strategies and Elements of Literature will continue through the reading of The Scarlet Ibis, Marine Corps Issue, and Cloud. The novel is yet to be determined, but I am leaning toward Speak or Fallen Angel. We will begin persuasive writing and explore making inferences and understanding author’s purpose. Nonfiction and informational articles will supplement the unit.
Unit 3: Passages – FRI strategies and Elements of Literature will be ongoing throughout the year. In Unit 3 we will add poetry and experiment with figurative language through activities as well as writing What If and I Am poems. We will read Life without Go-Go Boots, Unfinished Business, and American History. Our novel will be Monster or Hoops. These three units should bring us to the mid-term. Our mid-term assessment will be a taken from our McDougal Littell Formal Assessment supplement. Another syllabus for the second semester will be distributed at that time.
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