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  Sophomore Honors English
Course Syllabus
Calendar
Daily Plan
Google Group: Honors English 2013
Google Sites Portfolio Form 10-11
Student Information Form
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  Quarter 1 Weeks 1-2 Announcements/ Information  
 
Read Sean Covey's "Paradigm Shifts"

Take the MAP Diagnostic Assessment

Take the Pearson Diagnostic Assessment

Explore features of fiction and non-fiction

Supplies and Materials
By our third day of class you will need...

--Two spiral (college rule) notebooks
--One binder (two inch ring)
--Pens and pencils (mechanical is preferred)

We will be organizing our binders and starting our writing journal during the first week of school, so please take all necessary steps to ensure you are ready. We will also check out textbooks and sign up for Pearson Success Net.

Unit 1 Big Question

What is the difference between truth and reality?

 
  Week 3    
  "Monkey's Paw" Unit 1 Big Question (Continued)

Reading Skills: Fiction
--predicting
--visualizing
--clarifying
 
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  Additional Resources    
 

Golding's Lord of the Flies
Study Guide and Quizzes

Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Study Guide 1
Study Guide 2

Shelley's Frankenstein
Inspiration

Orwell's Animal Farm
Character Comparison.doc

Klass' California Blue
Chris Jordan's Photographic Art

Dramatic Literature
Lorraine's A Raisin in the Sun
Character Web
Inspiration



Writing Assignments
pdf picAutobiographical Poem
text picDescription of a Place
iconDramatic Elements Prompt
pdf picPassion Project

Writing Exercises and Tools
pdf pic3-part Source Integration
pdf picArgument Summary: Rhetorical Precis
pdf picQuickwrite
picMetadiscourse: Synthesis
pdf picPurposes for Using What Others Say

PowerPoint Presentations
Lesson 18: Reading 3.7
Lesson 19: Reading 3.7
Lesson 23A: Reading 3.11
Lesson 23B: Reading 3.12

Other Reading Selections
pdf picDeath of an Innocent

iconRosa Parks Interview

Tools and Resources

Student/ Parent Contact Form

Townsendpress

Mygradebook.com
Wikicommunities
GUHSD Research Tools
Career Zone California
Academy of Achievement
Classroom Library
Literature List