Honors English 10 Textbook Prentice Halls Timeless Voices

Honors English 10

• Textbook: Prentice Hall’s Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: World Masterpieces (This is not the regular English 10 th grade book). Almost all of the stories are in the textbook.

Summer: • Mythology by Edith Hamilton – Annotation of entire book for comprehension and detail • Diction • Key Passages • Patterns • Analysis

Fall Semester • World Religious Unit: – Judaism: • “Abraham and Isaac” (not in book) • “Book of Ruth” • “Psalm 23” – Islam: • From the Qur’an: “The Exordium, ” “Night, ” “Daylight, ” “Comfort”

– Hinduism: • Mahabharata: “Sibi” • Bhagavad-Gita: “The Yoga of Knowledge” • Ramayana: “Rama and Ravana in Battle” • Panchatantra: “Numskull and the Rabbit”

– Christianity: • “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” (not in book) – Buddhism: • Zen Parables: “A Parable, ” “Publishing the Sutras, ” “The Taste of Banzo’s Sword”

Ancient Greece and Rome Unit: – Poetics by Aristotle (not in book) – Oedipus the King – Poems by Catullus – “Carpe Diem” by Horace – Metamorphoses: “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” – From the Annals: “The Burning of Rome” – Drama (Antigone)

The Middle Ages Unit: – “Song of Roland” – “Perceval: The Grail” – “The Lady of the Werewolf” – “Sir Galahad” – Divine Comedy: Inferno Canto I, III, V, XXXIV – “The Art of Translation”

The Renaissance and Rationalism Unit: – Poems by Petrarch – Shakespeare: • Much Ado About Nothing • Sonnet 29 & 116 – Decameron: “Federigo’s Falcon” – Don Quixote Chapters I, VIII – “Leonardo: The Eye, The Hand, The Mind”

Romanticism Unit: – Poems by Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine – Drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – “Two Friends”

Winter Reading • Novel (Lord of the Flies) Winter Reading – Annotation of entire book for comprehension and detail • Diction • Key Passages • Patterns • Analysis

THE ESSAY • to write a biographical narrative and a causeeffect essay. Standards W 2. 1, W 2. 3, W 1. 1, W 1. 2, W 1. 4, W 1. 9, LC 1. 3, LC 1. 4, LC 1. 5. • to write for assessment (on-demand writing). Standards W 1. 1, W 1. 2, W 1. 4, W 1. 9, LC 1. 3.

WRITING AND GRAMMAR • punctuation: commas, semicolons, and colons. Standard LC 1. 1. • phrases: participial phrases, appositive phrases, prepositional phrases, gerund phrases, infinitive phrases. Standard LC 1. 1.

READING, LITERATURE, AND LITERACY • these literary terms and concepts: allusion, antagonist, autobiography, character, characterization, critical review, dialogue, direct characterization, dynamic character, genre, flat character, indirect characterization, motivation, parable, protagonist, round character, static character, suspense, symbol. Standards R 1. 1, R 3. 7. • characterization in literature. Standards R 3. 3, R 3. 4.

Spring: • The Realism Unit: – “A Problem” – “A Doll House”

Modern World Unit: – Poems by Boris Pasternak – “The Bracelet” – “War” – “The Guitar” – “Ithaka” – “The Glass of Milk” – Novel (Night) – Poetry

Contemporary World Unit: – “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” – “House Taken Over” – “Half Day”

THE ESSAY • to write a response to literature essay and a business letter. W 2. 2, W 2. 5, W 1. 1, W 1. 2, W 1. 4, W 1. 9, LC 1. 3, LC 1. 4, LC 1. 5. • to write for assessment (on-demand writing). Standards W 1. 1, W 1. 2, W 1. 4, W 1. 9, LC 1. 3.

WRITING AND GRAMMAR • punctuation: apostrophes, brackets, dashes, ellipsis, exclamation marks, hyphens, quotation marks, parentheses, question marks, slashes. Standard LC 1. 1. • diction and syntax. — LC 1. 3. • relative clauses. Standard LC 1. 1.

READING, LITERATURE, AND LITERACY • these literary terms and concepts: assonance, consonance, couplet, enjambment, haiku, legend, lyric poem, myth, narrative poem, octave, onomatopoeia, parody, quatrain, sensory language, sestet, sonnet, speaker, tanka villanelle. Standards R 1. 1, R 3. 7. • to identify and describe the function of dialogue, scene designs, soliloquies, asides, and character foils in dramatic literature. Standard R 3. 10. • word derivations. Standard R 1. 1. • connotation and denotation. Standard R 1. 2.