The following National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) standards are covered in the English 10 course developed here.

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These are the elements of English 10, divided up into two semesters (on a 7-8 period day) or quarters (on a block schedule).

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These graphic organizer templates are great for many different areas of a Language Arts class, especially reading, vocabulary, and writing.

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The following is my collection of materials for teaching Sophocles' play Antigone to a 10th grade English class. I teach from McDougal-Littel's text The Language of Literature, so some items are indicative of this.

This collection includes activities, study guides, projects, quizzes, tests, and answer keys.

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This unit will help students to avoid common errors in their writing related to homonyms and other words commonly confused.

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Socratic Seminar is a way to have a structured class discussion about a reading assignment or other topic of interest. The concept is based on Socrates' teaching methods and is an effective way to engage all students and to encourage multiple perspectives in a respectful environment. I use the following items in many of my Language Arts Classes to introduce the concepts of the Socratic Seminar, to execute the seminars, and to rate students' work. These materials can be easily adapted to fit other content areas.

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This unit covers the entire play for an English 10 class.

Resources include:

• Study Guides
• Pre-Reading Activities
• Activities During Reading
• Quizzes

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This unit covers the basics of rhetoric for 10th grade students.

Materials for this unit include:

Rhetoric PowerPoint presentations Rhetoric terms Vocabulary Rhetorical Analysis

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Students will write their own creative short stories in this unit.

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This unit teaches students about the types of clauses and how to use them in sentences, while avoiding run-ons and fragments.

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Students will read and analyze short stories while learning about elements of fiction. This unit includes worksheets, quizzes, activities, and a project.

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This is a template of the informal grade sheet I use to evaluate their projects.

This resource is part of the Outside Reading Projects Unit and the English 10 course.

Students will choose one book per semester (or quarter on a block schedule) to read outside class. One will be fiction, and the other will be biography, autobiography, or memoir.

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As part of this unit, students will write a creative memoir about something that is important in their lives.

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Students will learn about the elements of poetry while analyzing poems. This unit includes quizzes and other activities related to poetry.

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This unit reviews the basics of punctuation, including apostrophes, commas, quotation marks, to name a few.

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Students read and analyze the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. This unit includes quizzes, a test, and other valuable resources.

This resource is part of the “A Separate Peace” Unit and the English 10 course.

Students will choose a controversial issue and write persuasively about it.

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Using "This I Believe" from National Public Radio, students will write a short personal essay about a belief that they have.

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These English 10 final exams will cover semester 1 or 2 materials (or quarter 1 and 2 in a block schedule).

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