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 Today we will go over the syllabus, hand out books, play a review game, discuss the upcoming year.

  World Literature

Course Syllabus: 2025-2026

Instructor: Mr. Fielding

kfielding@skagwayschool.org

English 10: Literature of the World

Align to the Common Core Standards English 10 is a thematic exploration of literary and informative texts of world literature.  While English 9 is an exploration of genre, English 10 is an exploration of ideas (themes, arguments, thesis statements).  Students will read a variety of literature and literary genres from Ancient Greek classics to contemporary works, and cite textual evidence to analyze characters, figurative language, and cultural themes.  In informative reading students will analyze how claims and central ideas are developed and shaped by specific details.  

In writing students will build on the foundation established in 9th grade for composing literary, persuasive, analytical and reflective essays, and to produce an original persuasive research paper. Additionally, students will utilize proper writing conventions appropriate to their learning level. To accomplish this, students will actively read from an extensive selection spanning all literary genres, analyze these works, develop original theses, and share their ideas in formal compositions (persuasive, reflective, and analytical), class discussions, and oral presentations.

Students this year will learn strategies for writing successful persuasive essays and compose one using proper MLA citations.

Texts (students will read some or all of the following): Holt McDougal: English 10, A Brave New World, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Oedipus Rex, The Odyssey, The Iliad, All Quiet of the Western Front, Catcher in the Rye and poetry from various sources.  

 

Unit 1: Short Stories - themes: Technology (savior or destroyer), the meaning of home, traditions and heritage, and the idea of equality.  

Unit 2: The Extended Literary Project - A Catcher in the Rye

Unit 3: Greek drama: Oedipus Rex and/or Antigone 

Unit 4: Macbeth

Unit 5: Persuasion and Debate

Unit 6: The Epic: The Odyssey  

BLOGS/JOURNALS

Students will be required to keep a readling log/note log on google docs throughout the year.  This log will be the student’s journal.  In this log/journal will be reading reflections, lists of literary devices found in stories and novels, creative assignments that correspond with readings, pre-writing exercises, analytical writing.  

NOTE: I read every journal entry and you will lose points for skipping entries or not following directions.  If you do not understand an assignment please ask.  

GRADES:

Tests – 25% of overall grade

Papers—25% of overall grade

Projects—20% of overall grade

Quizzes, class work, homework—20% of overall grade

Journals—10% of overall grade

Scale:

100- 93 = A

92.49- 90 = A-

89.49- 87 = B+

86.49-83.00 = B

82.49- 80.00 = B-

79.49-77.00 = C+

76.49- 73 = C

72.49-70.00 = C-

69.49-67.00 = D+

66.49- 63.00 = D

62.49- 60 = D-

Below 60 = F

Late Work: Late work is marked down 10% every day it is overdue until it reaches 50%.  Please note that this policy includes papers.  Some projects (such as oral presentations) are hard to make up if not done on the day that they are due.

Students should expect homework 3-4 nights a week.

Required Materials:

1 Pocket Folders (to keep handouts, note guides, returned work)

Loose paper

Pens and Pencils

Highlighters (at least two)

 

Vocabulary List #1 - LOOK UP THE FOLLOWING WORDS:

Consternation
Cower
Neutralize
Synchronize
Vigilance
Wince
Manipulate
Oblivious
Paranoia
Silhouette
Sublime
Tremulous 

 

Classroom rules: 

 

1) Be in your seat when the bell rings and be ready to learn

2) Be respectful of your classmates 

3) Remember I dismiss you and not the bell

4) Plagiarism - 1st time you can redo the assignment for 50% off; 2nd time - Zero for the assignment; 3rd time - "F" for the semester.

5) Blues sheets/Travel.

6) Cell phones.

7) RASH 

 

STUDENT CELLULAR PHONES 

Students are prohibited from possessing cellular phones during instructional time in the classroom. Rather, cellular phones need to be either stored in lockers or placed in a drawer assigned for such purposes by classroom teachers. Teachers will make every effort to negate the need for cellular phones to be used in the classroom and will never require students to use a personal device. In the extremely rare case in which a cellular phone will enhance the delivery of instruction or aid students in demonstration of knowledge, a teacher may request a waiver of this policy for a specific period of time with a defined end date to be approved by the superintendent or his/her designee. Students will still be able to use cellular phones between classes and at lunch, as this restriction applies only to instructional time in classrooms. Should a student be found in violation of this policy, the phone will be confiscated and stored in the office until a parent/guardian is available to retrieve it or verbal permission is given by the parent/guardian to return the device at the end of the student’s school day, we will not release confiscated phones back to students without the approval of a parent/guardian. Students 18 years of age or older do not need parent/guardian approval, however the device will be held in the office until the end of the school day.

 

 

Academic Dishonesty~ Plagiarism Policy 

When plagiarism is suspected (but not acknowledged by the student), the student will be subject to a panel composed of the classroom teacher, one other teacher, and the superintendent. By discussing both style and content with the student, this panel will determine whether or not the student’s work was plagiarized.

If plagiarism is determined, whether by student’s admission (with or without the panel) or by the panel’s judgment, the offending student will be subject to the following consequences:

For each semester in each course:

• First offense

~50% penalty on the retake

• Second offense

~Score of zero with no retake

• Third offense

~Zero in the course