English 10

“Community” is the central theme at Grade 10. Core curricular units are designed around enduring understandings and essential questions and align with the SOLs for tenth grade.

• There is a continued emphasis on reading comprehension by comparing fiction and nonfiction texts. Students will analyze the cultural and social function and universal themes of fictional texts from different cultures. Tenth grade students will analyze and synthesize information from nonfiction texts to solve problems, answer questions, and generate new knowledge.
• The student will continue development of vocabulary using roots and affixes, with attention to connotations, idioms, classical allusions, and figurative language.
• The student will use the writing process to write/compose with an emphasis on persuasion and analysis while showing relationships among claims, reasons, and evidence from reliable sources.
• Students will create media messages and analyze the cause-and-effect relationships between mass media coverage and public opinion trends. Students will continue to use multimodal tools to create presentations both independently and in small groups.
• The student will continue to build research skills presenting information gathered from diverse sources, identifying misconceptions and possible bias while crediting sources using MLA or APA style.
• Students will continue to become skilled communicators, working both independently and in collaborative groups while presenting alternate views and working toward common goals.