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English · Grade 10
Learners build habits for reading hard texts on purpose. They choose strategies to match a reading purpose, untangle long sentences from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by finding their core, write objective summaries of an informational article about why bridges move, and practice noticing and repairing confusion as they read.
English · Grade 10
Learners study three masters of the short story to see how authors' deliberate choices create meaning. They distinguish verbal, situational and dramatic irony in O. Henry's “The Gift of the Magi” and Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado,” trace how Saki withholds and plants information in “The Open Window,” follow symbols and motifs across a story, and explain how word choice builds tone. They finish by analyzing how one author uses irony to shape meaning.
English · Grade 10
Learners study persuasion at one of its most famous moments: the two funeral speeches in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, where Brutus and Antony address the same crowd with opposite purposes. They analyze rhetorical situations, weigh appeals to ethos, pathos and logos using Aristotle's definitions, explain how devices such as repetition and verbal irony move an audience, and evaluate the evidence in a modern student speech. They finish by writing a rhetorical analysis comparing the two Roman speakers.
English · Grade 10
Learners read literature from different times, places and languages. They see how context shapes Rabindranath Tagore's “Where the mind is without fear,” compare how three translators open Homer's Odyssey, examine how a writer transforms source material by retelling the Sirens episode for the age of the phone, and compare Tagore with Mary Wollstonecraft on freedom of mind. An optional Going further lesson asks which translation suits which reader, and why.
English · Grade 10
One local controversy, many sources: the town of Millbrook plans to replace its old public pool with a splash pad. Learners synthesize a news report, a resident's viral post, a company press release and a sponsored article; compare how headlines, captions and charts frame the same story; catch misleading data displays and compute the real change; and learn to spot sponsored content and verify claims. They finish by writing a synthesis paragraph that puts three sources in conversation.
English · Grade 10
Learners grow the analytical paragraph into a full essay, working on Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet “Ozymandias.” They sharpen a thesis that is arguable and specific, plan an essay whose topic sentences advance that thesis, write layered commentary joined by logical transitions, and frame the argument with an introduction and a conclusion that extend it. An optional Going further lesson weighs two invented critics' readings of the poem and asks learners to join the conversation.
English · Grade 10
Learners argue the way careful thinkers do: by understanding the other side first. Working on a city's debate over banning gas-powered leaf blowers, and taking John Stuart Mill's warning that someone who knows only their own side knows little of that, they anticipate audiences' concerns, state counterclaims fairly, choose rebuttal strategies, recognize five more fallacies, and write a formal counterclaim-and-rebuttal section.
English · Grade 10
Learners handle sources the way researchers do. Using a small set of invented sources about city street trees and one sentence from Darwin's On the Origin of Species, they decide when to quote, paraphrase or summarize; paraphrase without patchwriting; integrate sources with precise signal phrases; build MLA-style in-text citations and Works Cited entries from the core elements; and learn what counts as plagiarism, including undisclosed AI help. They finish with a cited paragraph and two Works Cited entries.
English · Grade 10
Learners write narratives with deliberate craft. Starting from the first sentence of Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat,” they choose point of view and timeline on purpose, build experience from telling details and sensory language, write dialogue that reveals character with correct punctuation for interruptions, pauses and quotations within quotations, and revise a draft in response to peer feedback using a revision plan and memo.
English · Grade 10
Learners polish sentences for meaning, style and correctness. They build sentences with absolute, participial and appositive phrases and with noun, relative and adverb clauses; repair dangling and misplaced modifiers and unclear pronouns; replace wordy and vague language with precise words; and edit for tricky subject-verb agreement and commas around nonessential information. They finish by editing a paragraph and explaining their choices.
English · Grade 10
Learners prepare for and analyze a seminar on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. They write closed, interpretive and universal questions; study a seminar transcript to see how evidence-based contributions build on one another; synthesize where a group agrees and disagrees and qualify their own views; and plan a short evidence-based talk while learning to catch misquoted or out-of-context evidence in others' talks. Speaking practice is optional and unscored.
English · Grade 10
The Grade 10 capstone brings research and writing together around one invented local question: should Riverside High turn part of its parking lot into a community garden? Learners plan a research project, synthesize five sources into an argument with MLA citations, revise a draft for coherence and citation accuracy, and reflect on their process while selecting portfolio work. An optional Going further lesson reconciles two sources whose data conflict and builds a qualified claim.
