English 10 Honors
Ms. Meghan Reid
Period 1: Room A212: A, B, and C Days
Period 3: Room 245: A, C, and D Days
Contact Information and
Availability
• Meghan Reid
• mreid@livingston.org
• 973-535-8000, x5745
• Emails preferred
• Availability
• Before school in Room A212 daily
• During lunch by appointment
• After school in Room A212
Tuesday-Friday (appointments
preferred)
• Writing Lab– Media Center--Lunch
Essential Questions
• Marking Period 1: Influences on Perception
• How do our Family and/or Social Class Affect
Us?
• Marking Period 2: The Human Condition
• To What Extent do Individuals Control their
own Lives?
• Marking Period 3: Ideal Relationships
• What Is a Hero?
• Marking Period 4: Emotional Response
• What Makes Something Frightening?
Anchor Texts and Literature
Explored
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MP1:
“A Christmas Memory”- Truman
Capote, “Shooting Dad”- Sarah Vowell,
“My Papa’s Waltz”- Theodore Roethke
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MP2: “The
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MP3: “The
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MP4: “The
Fatalist”*- Isaac Bashevis
Singer, “Superman and Me”*- Sherman
Alexie, “The Road Less Traveled”*Robert Frost
Handsomest Drowned Man in
the World”*- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “On
Being a Cripple”*- Nancy Mairs, “O
Captain, My Captain”*- Walt Whitman
Cask of Amontillado”*- Edgar
Allan Poe, “Regarding the Pain of
Others”*- Susan Sontag, “Fear”*Raymond Carver
Ms. Reid’s Teacher Website
http://www.livingston.org/Domain/1354
Turnitin.com
• The originality report
teaches students about
plagiarism and
encourages original work
• Grademark allows teachers to
make comments on student work
online– Students will have an
online portfolio of their work, and
they can use turnitin.com to track
commonly made mistakes