English Program
Teachers: Gail Moscovich, Lucy Paz
Month
Material
Text Book: 10!
Sept
Oct
Unit 1: What's in a Name?
Do you know the history
of your name?
Nov
Unit 2: It's About Time
2012-2013
10th Grade
A Level
Coordinator: Sharon Shapira
Goals/curriculum
Social Interaction: ask/answer questions about certain issue.
Interact for purposes such as eliciting information.
Access to Information: identify attitudes of writer/speaker.
Integrate information from different sources.
Use tools like Internet, encyclopedia, dictionary.
Extract relevant information for specific purposes.
Presentation: present information taken from different sources.
Appreciation of Culture: compare different cultures with their own.
Relative clauses / adjectives / multiple meanings
Sharing information about names, personalities
Writing task: Research Your Name
Extensive reading program – individual (class/home)
Literature: The Split Cherry Tree by Jesse Stuart
Social Interaction: interact for agreeing and disagreeing, giving
instructions, complimenting, giving advice.
Access to Information: understand structure and conventions
of different text types and use this knowledge as needed.
Presentation: present info in depth, synthesizing from various sources
Review and edit based on feedback.
Appreciation of Language: awareness of dynamics of language
changes and appropriate usage.
Scanning for information
Comparing biological clocks
Are you aware of your
biological clock?
Dec
Jan
Unit 3: Taking a Chance
Can conflicts be
resolved?
Jan
Feb
Unit 4: Reaching for the
Stars
Will space travel become
Present simple / present progressive
Present perfect/progressive
The writing process - Informal Letters
Extensive reading program: in class and at home
Literature: Poem: Count That Day Lost by George Eliot
Writing Task: Your Biological Clock
Social Interaction: give and receive info in writing of various texts.
Access to Information: find out and follow directions and instructions
in less familiar contexts.
Presentation: react to the content of something read, seen or heard.
Appreciation of Language: aware of shifts in connotation of words.
Reading between the lines
Agreeing and disagreeing: discussing dilemmas
The writing process – letters of advice
Past tenses – review
adjectives / adverbs
Book tasks – Literature Portfolio
Literature: Poem: Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Social Interaction: interact for purposes, such as persuading
Access to Information: integrate information from different sources for
a specific purpose.
Presentation: present conclusions based on integration of results from
different means.
Appreciation of Literature and Culture: aware of how cultural practices
are reflected in various literary and cultural products.
Arguing for and against
Connectors: clues about what the writer will say next
The writing process – presenting both sides of an issue
Future tenses
adjectives / suffixes
part of our future?
Mar
Apr
Unit 5: The Generation
Gap
Why do parents and
teenagers ever fight?
Unit 8: Those Were the
Days
Extensive reading program
Social Interaction: express ideas and opinions, giving in-depth
explanations, reaching a consensus
Access to Information: understanding the structure and conventions
of a radio drama and use this knowledge as needed.
Follow the development of an argument in a range of
texts and use this knowledge as needed.
Presentation: present an argument for or against a particular point of
view.
Appreciation of Literature/Culture: recognize the use of literary
techniques in a variety of genres.
Aware of how cultural practices are reflected in various
literary and cultural products.
Compare and contrast literary themes and relate to them
from a personal perspective.
Appreciation of Language: aware of differences in us of language
and the dynamics of language changes, word meanings.
Advice for teens
Short radio drama
The writing process – expressing an opinion
First conditional, temporals, phrasal verbs
Extensive reading program – book task
Essay: School Give Us More Respect
Social Interaction: express ideas and opinions providing in-depth
explanations.
Interact for purposes such as expressing and explaining
preferences.
Ask/answer questions on wide range of general topics.
Access to Information: extract and integrate information for specific
How has life changed
over the years?
May
June
purpose from different sources.
Identify attitude of the speaker.
Presentation: present conclusions based on results obtained from
different means.
Design different means for collecting information, such as
surveys and interviews and report on the results.
Diary entries/newspaper articles
Summarizing
Present a time from the past you would like to visit.
The writing process – interview an "old-timer"
Passive/expressions/phrasal verbs
Extensive reading program