ONE-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
CREDIT RECOVERY AVAILABLE
HONORS OPTION
NCAA APPROVED
In this course, you will use text evidence to make inferences, determine the author’s purpose, analyze an author’s argument based on ideas presented in the text, and support your thinking using text evidence. You will be able to summarize a text, determine denotations and connotations, analyze the impact of word choice, and compare how mediums affect the tone and mood of a text. You will engage in grammar tasks and craft original writing using proper grammar practices. English 10 is a course that utilizes texts of high complexity to provide an integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language with the goal of college and career readiness. Critical thinking while actively reading for explicit and implicit meaning is a must in examining literary and informational texts. You will write for various purposes, including developing and supporting argumentative claims, creating informative and expository responses, and crafting narratives that develop real or imagined events. The course emphasizes identifying and using textual evidence to support critical analysis, whether for a written or spoken response. Finally, you will acquire effective listening, viewing, and speaking skills and be able to transfer those specific skills into a collaborative setting.
