Honors Enlish 10 (Period 4)

Course Description:

Honors English 10 Literature and Composition is designed for students willing to accept an intellectual challenge and is intended to engage creative and analytical thinking skills. This course prepares students for Advanced Placement Literature. Students will experience, interpret, and evaluate challenging works of literary merit. This course provides a “representative” background in the “deliberate reading and critical analysis” of British and American literature in addition to readings drawn from several genres (poetry, drama, fiction, and expository prose) and cultures dating from the Anglo-Saxon Period to the present. Students will explore the thematic theme of culture -- will deepen students’ understanding of the use of evidence, structure, and impact of language embodied in literary works.

Wide reading will provide students the opportunity to explore and appreciate trends in linguistic styles across time. In addition to reading numerous works, students will get to know a few pieces well from multiple perspectives. Reading and writing are approached as reciprocal processes in this course, and students will have multiple opportunities to recognize and implement good writing and appreciate exemplary literature. What a student reads lends itself to what a student writes; what a student writes enhances and extends their understanding of literature and the writer’s craft. Students will write to understand, explain, and evaluate literature in a clear and cogent style. Although critical analysis of the literature is the primary focus of this course, students will also have the opportunity to write creatively. Timed responses will be a frequent form of evaluation.