English 10
Unit 2
Non-Fiction Unit
Focused Reading Selections
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Dial vs. Digital
Once More to the Lake
Montgomery Boycott
from “Night”
from “Farwell to Manzanar”
Getting a Job
The Flood
In Search of our Mothers’ Garden
A Celebration of Grandfathers
Eulogy to Martin Luther King
Through the One Way Mirror
Were You Born That Way?
The Border
To Make a Nation
Nelson Mandela
The Remembered War
The Once and Future
The Man in the Water
The Teacher Who Changed My Life
Travels with Charley
Fish Cheeks
Tolerance
On Summer
The Watch
Expository Essay
Personal Essay
Memoir
Memoir & Style
Memoir
Narrative Non-Fiction
Author’s Purpose & Social Criticism
Author’s Perspective
Authors Perspective
Rhetorical Techniques
Theme
Note Taking-Reading for Information
Compare/Contrast
Fact and Opinion
Biography-Reading for Information
Article
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Tone
Audience
Comic Irony
Independent Reading
Independent Reading
Independent Reading
Independent Reading
Each literary work focuses on one or more techniques or styles in writing. We will begin each work with class
discussion about the focus area and the background information. After reading the assigned work, students
will complete or discuss comprehension questions, critical thinking questions, and a graded worksheet that
includes a focus area graphic organizer, multiple choice questions, and two short essays for real world
application and critical thinking.
Terms:
Found at the beginning of selected works and in glossary
(Non-Fiction Terms Page 104)
Personal Essay
Expository Essay
Eulogy
Hyperbole
Persuasive Essay
Ethical Appeal
Fact
Opinion
Rhetorical Question
Repetition
Comparing and Contrasting
Author’s Perspective (page 452)
Biography
Comic Irony
Memoir
Non-fact
Autobiography
Cultural Context
Portrayal of Individuals
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
Thesis
Formal Essay
Informal Essay
Interpretive Essay
Vocabulary:
Students will complete a unit in our Wordly Wise vocabulary text each week. We complete approximately
eight lessons each nine weeks (three to four lessons per literary unit). Students complete Exercises A-D
independently in class and we go over it as a class. Students read the Exercise E story and then independently
complete a fill-in-the-blank sheet for a classwork grade the day prior to the quiz. Weekly vocabulary unit
quizzes are 15 multiple choice questions using synonyms, antonyms, least likely, most likely, and best suited
style questions. The last five questions are multiple choice questions focused on the standardized testing skills
of analogies and word application.
Reading Strategies:
 Reading Nonfiction
 Using Context Clues for Specialized Vocabulary
 Contest Clues-Synonyms, Definitions, and Antonyms
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Grammar: From Grammar Handbook in Textbook
 The Sentence and its parts
 Phrases
 Verbal Phrases
 Clauses
 The Structure of Sentences
Writing:
 Opinion Statement
 Persuasive Essay
 Personal Essay/Memoir
 Interpretive Essay
Communication:
 Study Skills and Strategies
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**Teacher reserves the right to make adjustments to the material.
Block Schedule (1 class each semester):
Beginning of 1st / 3rd nine weeks to interim
Interim to end of 1st / 3rd nine weeks
Beginning of 2nd/4th nine weeks to interim
Interim to end of 2nd/4th nine weeks
Short Story Unit
Non-Fiction Unit
Poetry Unit
Drama/Novel Unit
Split Block Schedule:
1st nine weeks
2nd nine weeks
3rd nine weeks
4th nine week
Short Story Unit
Non-Fiction Unit
Poetry Unit
Drama/Novel Unit
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