English-Language Arts Content Standards

Correlated with Honors World Literature Curriculum

Mr. Robert Ayres

 

 

 

Reading

 

1.1 – 1.2          SAT Preparation Worksheets and Active Reading Notes

 

1.3                                       Completed in 9th grade; reinforced through Latin and Greek roots in 10th Grade

 

2.1 – 2.2          Informational workplace documents and materials: Holt textbook

 

2.3                                       Cry, the Beloved Country supplemental readings on apartheid

 

2.4                                       Albert Camus’ various writings and existentialism readings as they relate to Camus’ The Fall

 

2.5                                       Active Reading Notes and second semester project documents

 

2.6                                       Online grammar/usage tutorials; PowerPoint lecture preparation

 

2.7                                       Functional documents: Editorials used in Lord of the Flies Group Identity Politics and in Cry, the Beloved Country style unit

 

2.8                                       Style unit: Mike Royko article and Bishop Tutu speech text

 

3.1                                       Active Reading Notes and Literary Terms

 

3.2                                       Cry, Freedom & Cry, the Beloved Country discussion; existentialism

 

3.3 – 3.4          Ongoing: all works of literature

 

3.5                                       Semester Final Exam

 

3.6                                       Ongoing: all works of literature

 

3.7                                       Style unit; all works of literature where applicable

 

3.8 – 3.9          Ongoing: all works of literature; style unit

 

3.10                                   Antigone; second semester dramas

 

3.11                                   Style unit

 

3.12                                   Ongoing: all works of literature

 

Writing

 

1.1 – 1.2          Nearly all essays

 

1.3                                       PowerPoint lecture preparation; second semester projects

 

1.4                                       All essays

 

1.5                                       Technical documents: Holt textbook

 

1.6 – 1.7          Nearly all essays

 

1.8                                       Web page critical review; PowerPoint lecture

 

1.9                                       Research paper

 

2.1                                       The Fall Reflective Essay

 

2.2                                       Ongoing: all works of literature; style unit; Active Reading Notes

 

2.3                                       Research Paper; PowerPoint lecture; Persuasive Essay

 

2.4                                       Persuasive Essay

 

2.5                                       Business Letter: Holt textbook

 

2.6                                       Technical Documents: Holt textbook

 

 

Language Conventions

 

1.1 – 1.3          Online grammar/usage tutorials; teacher feedback on essays

 

1.4 – 1.5          Required in all essays

 

 

Listening and Speaking

 

1.1                                       Class discussion; group PowerPoint preparation

 

1.2                                       Media genres: Cry, the Beloved Country—apartheid expressed through speeches, essays, and Internet sources

 

1.3 – 1.6          Style unit; Persuasive Essay/Speech

 

1.7 – 1.9          PowerPoint lecture; Persuasive Speech

 

1.10 – 1.13     Style unit

 

1.14                                   Cry, Freedom & Cry, the Beloved Country discussion

 

2.1 – 2.4          PowerPoint lecture

 

2.5                                       Persuasive Speech

 

2.6                    Descriptive Speech: handled at 9th grade