English 10 Honors (Period 4 & 6)

Course Overview: This course offers students challenging experiences with genre-based American Literature. Students will read and respond to historically or culturally significant American Literature in a manner consistent with advanced levels of expectations and performance.
The central purpose of this course is to allow students the opportunity to read and respond to historically and culturally significant works of American literature and produce evidence of comprehension by conducting in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes which reflect the evolution of the American voice.
Students will be given the opportunity to complete integrated tasks individually and in groups through a variety of authentic assessments. As an honors level class, students are expected to perform at a consistently high level in reading, writing, speaking and presentation. The English 10 Honors course meets the current California State Standards for grade 10 and the school-to-work guidelines (i.e. SCANS report.)