10th Grade Knowledge/Performance Standards

10th Grade
Reading Focus: Slave Narrative, Personal Narrative, Humor, Regional Fiction
Writing Focus: Personal Narrative, Character Development

Literary Devices:
*Allusion
*Caricature
*Character
*Development/Motivation
*Colloquialism
*Dialect
*Dialogue
*Foil
*Gothic
*Hyperbole
*Irony
*Jargon
*Local Color
*Logical Fallacies
*Memoir
*Naturalism
*Propaganda
*Realism
*Regionalism
*Satire
*Sentimentalism

9th Grade Knowledge/Performance Standards

9th Grade
Reading Focus: Multi-Genre, with a short story emphasis
Writing Focus: Paragraph Structure, descriptive paragraph/essay
Grammar Focus: Review of the eight major parts of speech and the parts of a sentence.

Literary Devices:
*Dialogue
*Simile
*Metaphor
*Personification
*Foreshadowing
*Time Sequence
*Imagery
*Repetition
*Allusion
*Symbolism
*Point of view
*Charaterization

Second Semester Themes

Childrens' Classics:
Theme: Getting to know the classics, and the important contributions, they have made to our history.

10th Grade
Theme: The American Dream, Jazz, Rags to Riches, and The Lost Generation
American Literature explores the conflicts that shape our nation.
Writer's choices of words reflect their membership in various social, regional, and cultural groups.

9th Grade
Theme: Relationships
We use language to celebrate and give voice to the events and experiences build our relationships.

English 9 Reading List

Things Fall Apart
A Day No Pigs Would Die
The Greatest Game

English 10 Reading List

Fredrick Douglass

The Red Badge of Courage

Young, Goodman, and Brown

Reading List World Mythology

Alaska Native Myths
Indian Myths
Greek Myths
African Myths

Quarter ends Oct 2010

Hi,

Students and parents-the first quarter ends on Oct 2010; this day is also an Inservice day for our students. Check with your son or daughter prior to that date to get an update on grades. If you have any questions for me, please shoot me an email at handy_kimberly@asdk12.org.


Mrs. Handy