US Grant High School Course Syllabus

Course: World Literature

Teacher: Ms. Moore Room: H106
Email: esmoore@okcps.org
Office Hours: TB5 (11:45-12:35), after school (M,W,Th 2:30-3:30)


My Responsibilities as Your Teacher:
1. To treat you with respect and care as an individual.
2. To ensure an orderly and safe classroom environment, where all students can learn
and achieve.
3. To provide inspiration and motivation, while teaching the required content.
4. To research and use the best teaching strategies possible.
5. To help get students college and career ready.

Class Expectations
1. Be on time, prepared to work hard.
2. Show respect to all people and property.
3. Follow directions quickly.
4. Only water and healthy food allowed in class (exceptions made on special occasions).
5. Try! It is okay not to know. It is NOT okay not to try.

Consequences
1. Verbal Warning
2. Lunch Detention w/ Phone Call Home
3. Behavior Contract
4. Referral

Required Materials
*If, for any reason, you are unable to get some or any of the materials listed below, please let me know by
note, phone, or email, and I will do my best to provide them for you.

1. 3-Ring Binder (this will be left in the classroom)
2. Loose-leaf lined paper
3. Blue/Black pen or pencil
4. Outside reading book of your choice

Grading: It is important to remember that a teacher does not give out gradesthe student
earns them.

A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = 0-59%
50% Tests
20% writing
15 % class work
10% notebook
5% bell work
Late Work Policy: If you turn in an assignment after it is due, the highest grade you can earn is a 70%. You may
submit late work until the last week of each quarter.


Top 3 Classroom Procedures
Entering Bell Work Coming to Attention
1. Enter silently.
2. Sit down.
3. READ THE BOARD
4. Do what it says
1. READ THE BOARD & Follow
directions QUICKLY.
2. 100% INDEPENDENT
3. 100% SILENT
4. Work until you hear the timer.
When you hear the signal,
1. STOP.
2. LOOK.
3. POINT.
4. LISTEN.

Course Description:
Welcome to English 10, an exploration of World Literature. This year we will
continue to build upon the foundation you began to create in your 9
th
grade English
class. We will analyze various texts a wide variety of classic and contemporary
literature, poetry, magazines, newspapers, reference materials, online information,
as well as expository (informational and technical) texts. We will improve our writing
skills, learning how to structure, organize and develop essays. We will learn to
support opinions with evidence from various texts. We will bring a critical eye to the
media and the information we encounter on a daily basis. Most importantly, we will
expand our repertoire of knowledge and experience in the world of information all
while preparing for the English 10 End of Instruction Exam.
PRIMARY LEARNING GOALS
By the end of the course, students will:
Analyze, compare and evaluate various works of literature read between the lines;
Understand that effective authors of fiction, nonfiction and poetry carefully consider their
stylistic choices as they pertain to purpose and audience;
Discern and analyze the rhetorical strategies authors employ and consider applying some
of these strategies to enhance their own writing when appropriate;
Demonstrate serious engagement with the readings through close reading and analytical
writing;
Participate in active class analytical discussions / seminars;
Express analysis and practice writing skills through academic writing assignments and in-
class essays;
Express themselves through creative writing and free writing;
Apply steps of the writing process as they write;
Apply spelling, proofreading, basic grammatical and editing skills to augment their writing;
Continue to develop sophisticated sentence structures and syntax subordination and
coordination:
Demonstrate a knowledge of the basic design and types of multi-paragraph essays;
Transcend the five-paragraph essay form;
Improve their vocabulary skills primarily in the context of the literature;
Develop and apply the study and research skills necessary for academic success;
Develop and apply oral and presentation skills;
Develop and apply listening skills;
Demonstrate their comprehension of the material through regularly scheduled quizzes and
tests
Develop test-taking skills through multiple-choice quizzes and constructed responses