Our English Language Arts department has put together an "ELA at a Glance" for this month. We appreciate the work our students and teachers are doing each day.
Roane County High School
ELA
September at a Glance
9th grade: Unit: World's End (from county adapted textbook)
Texts used this month from textbook:
- Dream's Winter
- By the Waters of Babylon
- The Nuclear Tourist
- The End of the World Might Just Look Like This (Image Gallery)
- The Myth of the World's Panic (Magazine Article)
-Unit test and selection assessments
Recommended Additions by SAVVAS Textbook:
- "10 Science Fiction Novels That Correctly Predicted the Future" (News Story from Business Insider)
Students should also be working on:
- Independent Reading- Students' Choice
- Vocabulary Study
10th grade: Unit: Outsiders & Outcasts (from county adopted textbook)
- Anchor text- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Media - Frank Kafka and Metamorphosis
- Short story - The Doll's House
- Poetry collection - Sonnet, With Bird, Elliptical, and Fences
- News article - Revenge of the Geeks
- Selection Assessments
- Argumentative Essay
- Unit test and selection assessments
Learning Platforms: IXL, Pearson Textbook, SAVVAS
11th grade: Unit: Facing our Fears (from county adopted textbook)
-Anchor text-The Crucible(play)/The Scarlet Letter (novel)
-excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar
-Interview with George Takei
-Antojas -short story
-What You Don't Know Can Kill You and What Are You So Afraid of?
-Grammar and vocabulary
-Argument Essay
Unit test and selection assessments
Learning Platforms: IXL, Pearson Textbook, novel, SAVVAS
11th-AP Language and Composition
+Textbook - AMSCO Advanced Placement Edition: English Language and Composition
-Unit 2: Selecting Evidence to Motivate Audience
-Part 1: Relating to Audience
-Part 2: Strategic and Sufficient Evidence
-Part 3: Identifying a Thesis
-Unit 3: Connecting an Argument
-Part 1: Connecting and Explaining Claims and Evidence
-Part 2: Line of Reasoning
-Part 3: Introduction to Methods of Development
-Unit 4: Structuring and Organizing Arguments
-Part 1: Introductions and Conclusions
-Part 2: Thesis and Structure
-Part 3: Comparison-Contrast, Description, and Definition
+AP Classroom
-AP Daily Videos and Slides
-Unit 2: In this unit, students will continue to develop proficiency in recognizing claims and evidence in other writers’ arguments, while emulating such models in their own paragraphs. In addition, they will begin identifying the ways effective writers appeal to and persuade their audiences, while practicing such appeals in their own paragraphs. During this unit, students should build a collection of claims and evidence about a topic or issue so that they can move beyond individual paragraphs to derive a thesis statement from the patterns they see within their collection.
-Unit 3: Students should continue to see themselves as evidence collectors, continually assembling and reviewing a range of evidence to identify overarching patterns that can be used to craft a thesis statement. But in this unit, students should focus on improving the ways they explain and connect evidence and claims to establish a clear line of reasoning through their essay. Students will also become familiar with several traditional methods of development that writers have used for centuries to advance their arguments.
-Unit 4: Students should enter this unit having learned to evaluate evidence to develop a thesis statement and organize an argument. Now the focus is on improving the quality, interest, and power of the argument by crafting introductions and conclusions that demonstrate a real understanding of the rhetorical situation. In addition, students will practice a few additional methods of development.
12th-Unit : Forging a Hero (from county adopted text)
-Anchor text- Beowulf
-Media- Beowulf graphic novel
-Argumentative essay
-Grammar/Skills Focus: Appositives, Quotations and Dialogue, Analyzing text sets
-Unit Test and selection assessments
-Learning Platforms: SAVAAS, Pearson Text, IXL
12- Dual Enrollment: Comp I
-Resume building for letters of recommendation
-Grammar practice for senior ACT (Oct. 1)
-Narrative examples: “Facing Famine”; “Salvation”; “Lockdown”
-RSCC Essay #1: Narrative (in preparation for College Apps Week Sept. 16-20)
-Reading A Death in the Family by James Agee in preparation for attending Knoxville at the Clarence Brown Theatre
Learning Platforms: Prentice Hall Reader, The Little Seagull, A Death in the Family, online ACT resources