Course Description
English 10 continues and extends the integrated study of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The literature portion will involve reading and analyzing short stories, nonfiction works, poetry, plays, and novels. These selections will reflect world and United States literature. Students will support their interpretations of literature by using such techniques as reasoning, author's tone and purpose, inferences, and literary devices. Emphasis will be placed on paragraph development with special instruction of the five-paragraph theme, outlining, and the writing process. Students are required to complete summer reading.