Wilkinson County High School

Ms. E. Shermans Tenth Grade Literature and Composition Syllabus

Elyse.sherman@wilkinson.k12.ga.us
478-946-2441
January 2017 May 2017

Course Objectives
Students in Tenth Grade Literature and Composition will integrate all the language skills
gained throughout their education. The curriculum both affirms these skills and equips the
students to be life-long learners. Students continue to explore Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry,
Dramas, and literacy contexts with a focus on World Literature. According to Common Core
Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) the emphasis is on argumentation by developing a
position of advocacy through reading, writing, speaking, listening, and using media.
Students will:

Express reflections and reactions to texts.

Explain principles inspired by the curriculum.
Interpret and qualify texts.
Research and address issues of public or personal concern.
Create products and presentations which maintain standard conventions of the
written and spoken language.

This course has been designed to offer an introduction to Tenth Grade Literature and
Composition beginning with different short stories from America and travel around the world.
We will focus on developing our understanding of the hero/heroine experience as is presents
itself in the works of different world authors.

Important Dates: Pre-Assessment: January 4 6, 2017

Final Project: May 2017
The final for Tenth Grade Literature will be held in May 2017.

Fiction:
Works: A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens

Non-Fiction:
Works: Letter EB White
A Eulogy to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy
Shakespearean/Globe Articles
Interview with Ray Bradbury (Authors style)

Poetry:
Works: Shakespearean Sonnets
Simile N. Scott Momaday
Woman Nikki Giovanni
Mending Wall Robert Frost
The Crowning of Arthur Sir Thomas Mallory

Drama:
Works: Tonight I Can Write. Pablo Neruda
Night Elie Wiesel
Hamlet Shakespeare
Antigone

Tenth Grade Literature and Composition

2016 - 2017