This English course will help prepare students for college entry. There will be an emphasis on writing (letters, opinion pieces, and persuasive essays) and a focus on appropriate speaking skills (class discussions and presentations). Also, students will complete three novel studies, which will provide them opportunity to use multiple intelligences in various assignments related to each novel. Students will keep these assignments in a portfolio, and at the end of the semester will select their best work to complete a final I.S.P. assignment and presentation. This course should enable students to come to a better understanding of self, challenge their own perceptions of who they are, and help them have empathy and understanding for people and characters regardless of time, place, or circumstances.

Units:

• Identities -- Know your Role!
• From the Outside In-- Getting to the Core of Yourself!
• Fiction to Fact -- To Be(lieve) or Not to Be(lieve)
• Shakespeare -- Macbeth
• Novel Studies
  • These will be ongoing and will culminate in an I.S.P. assignment and presentation at the end of the semester
    • Flowers for Algernon
    • Stones
    • Skud

Evaluation

Term Work

• Writing - 35% (paragraphs, essays, opinion pieces)
• Performance Tasks - 35% (quizzes, tests, multiple intelligence tasks, and oral presentations))

Final Assessment

• I.S.P. (novel studies)15%
• Final Exam 15%
  

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