English II is geared towards the 10th grade student. Composition of essays will be fine-tuned to find students’ personal voices in their writing. MLA format will be expected for each essay while grammar and vocabulary will be expanded. Learning objectives Grammar - heavy focus on proofreading/editing along with classic grammar lessons Writing from a prompt - current events 4 Essays in varying length from 1-5 pages-narrative, expository, persuasive, autobiography, and research MLA Format - student must have access to either Google Docs or Microsoft Word Research - student will learn how to properly cite all factual sources Literary analysis of short stories, poetry, drama, and novels 4 Novels - the sooner these are purchased, the better! Amazon usually has the best pricing. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie 1984 by George Orwell Poetry 1 Drama - TBD Shakespeare play Teacher Bio: My name is Amy Loesch and I have been teaching several high school level courses since 2019. I graduated in 2009 with a BA in Religious Education and have taken a significant amount of graduate level courses for teaching and secondary English. My philosophy is that each student learns in his or her own way, and that learning should be FUN and relevant.
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