ENGLISH 10—SPRING
LITERATURE
· Night by Elie Wiesel (a memoir)
· Antigone by Sophocles (drama)
· epics and legends
· poetry
THE ESSAY—4 total
· problem-solution essay
· the business letter
· to write for assessment / on-demand writing
· division and classification essay
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
· punctuation: apostrophes, brackets, dashes, ellipses, exclamation marks, hyphens, quotation marks, parentheses, question marks, slashes
· diction and syntax
· relative clauses
· CAHSEE prep (as needed)
READING, LITERATURE, AND LITERACY
· assonance/consonance
· couplet, quatrain, octave, sestet
· enjambment
· legend
· lyric poem
· myth
· narrative poem
· onomatopoeia
· parody
· poetic forms: haiku, sonnet, tanka, villanelle
· sensory language
· speaker
· dialogue, scene designs, soliloquies, asides, and character foils in dramatic literature
· word derivations
· connotation and denotation
PUNCTUATION
· apostrophes
o to show possession or ownership
o to create contractions
· brackets
· dashes
o as a strong comma
o as a colon
o as an inverted colon
o in a word processing program
· ellipses
o standard
o in MLA style
o at the end of a sentence
· end marks
o the period, the exclamation mark, and the question mark
· hyphens
o to create compound adjectives
· quotation marks
o to enclose spoken words
o direct quotations vs. indirect quotations
o to enclose titles of shorter works
o to refer to words as words
o to say “this is their word, not mine”
o punctuating with quotation marks
o single quotation marks
· parentheses
o to enclose words used as an aside
o to enclose numbers used to list items
o punctuating with parentheses
· slashes
o in place of a hyphen to join two concepts
o to show a line break in quoted lines of poetry
· diction (formal / informal)
· syntax
· word order
· relative clauses
o relative pronouns
o restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses
o punctuating relative clauses
· connotation and denotation
· word derivations
o referring to a word’s source language
o referring to changing a word’s form.