Grade 10, Year 5 MYP Course Outline
| MYP English 10 course outline |
Poetry
| mood-worksheet-01.pdf |
| Can We Auto Correct Humanity by Prince EA |
| metaphors_for_beginners_abbreviated.docx |
| Reader Response questions |
| Poems Ebb and As I Grow Older with questions |
Short Stories
| Reading Strategies to help you understand the meaning of a story |
Understanding Metaphors
| Understanding metaphors exercise |
Story #1: The Iron Barred Door
| The Iron Barred Door full text |
| Iron Barred Door Questions |
Story #2: U is Part of Us
| U is Part of Us full story |
| U Is Part of Us questions |
Assignment: Pick a scene from a the story U Is Part of Us and write a story or a diary entry from the Mother's (Nona) point of view
Story #3: Ashes for The Wind
Story #4: Harrison Bergeron
- complete plot outline; identifying the elements of fiction
- complete plot outline; identifying the elements of fiction
Story #5: The Metaphor
| Understanding the language of metaphors in a story |
To Kill A Mockingbird
Click the button to get an audio version of the To Kill A Mockingbird
Click on the button to access the Sparknotes summaries for the chapters.
| chapter_1-7_questions.docx |
| Chapter 11 -14 questions |
| Questions for Chapter 15 -31 |
| Sample literary paragraph for TKAM |
| TKAM Final Assignment |
| To Kill A Mockingbird Folder Assignments |
Analysis of Social Media
| To Kill A Mockingbird Final project sample |
| Generation Like questions |
| English 10 short story presentation |
| Elements of Fiction Hand out |
| Humans Need Not Apply Documentary questions |
1. Pick 10 words that you don't understand but feel are important to understanding the meaning of the story.
2. Summarize the story. Pick 6 important events
2. Summarize the story. Pick 6 important events
The Proof
| The Proof full text |
| The Proof questions |
Possibility of Evil
| Possibility Of Evil text.doc |
Harrison Bergeron
| Harrison Bergeron And 2 +2 = 5 paragraph main points and topic sentence |
| Harrison Bergeron Theme questions |
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| questions_chpater_15-17.docx |
| questions chapters 17-22 |
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| Agree/Disaggree statements |
| discussion_of_quotations_morals_and_ethics.docx |
| tkam_theme_quotations_and_explanations.docx |
Essay Writing
| Satisfaction Comes From Helping Others sample papers |
Class hand-outs (mythology)
| questions_on_the_story_of_prometheus.docx |
| daedalus_and_icarus.docx |
| daedalus_and_icarus_questions.docx |
Mini Myth due: October 6, 2014
| mini_myth_writing_rubric.docx |
| myth_pre-writinggraphicorganizer.docx |
Read Perseus and Medusa and answer questions
| perseus_and_medusa_story_and_questions.docx |
Read Perseus and Andromeda and answer questions located in the Perseus Medusa handout
Read Orpheus and Eurydice Myth and generate four questions about the myth
| orpheus_and_eurydice_summary.docx |
Review the myths and determine which events in the myths reflect the major themes of the myth.
Create a chart with the title of the myths and the major themes of the myths as headers. Then connect some of those themes to real life events, human qualities, and/or behaviours.
Read The Wanderings Of Odysseus and in your own words summarize each of the sections
| odysseus_myth.pdf |
For Myth Essay Topics click below
| English 10 myth essay topics |
Need a graphic organizer for your compare-contrast essay? See below
| Compare contrast graphic organizers |
Poetry and Lyrics studies
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Myth essay due Friday, Nov. 7
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