Tutor:
Alisa DeBorde
Meeting Time:
Section I
Mondays, 8:30-9:20
Section II
Wednesdays, 10:30-11:20
Course Description
This class will enforce students’ knowledge of the elements of literature, expand their research skills, investigate logical fallacies, review high-school level grammar and mechanics, and feature the reading and study of several classic literary texts. The course curriculum rotates every other year so that students can take the course in 9th and 10th grade. Writing focus: Writing in response to literature; creative responses to literature; introduction to the research paper or practice with the research paper (3-6 pages); use of quotation, paraphrase, and summary; logical reasoning; and rhetorical analysis.
Homework Expectation
Academic Class: Expect 2-3 hours a week of homework, depending upon the student’s reading and writing pace.
Resources
Handbook/Grammar Books:
Easy Grammar Grade 10, ISBN: 0936981644 (we use this book in both grades 9 and 10)
The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn
Literature:
Quarter 1
Peace Like a River (America) Leif Enger
The Count of Monte Cristo (France) Alexandre Dumas (we are reading the abridged version: ISBN 0486456439).
Quarter 2
Things Fall Apart (Nigeria) Chinua Achebe
Julius Caesar (Rome) Shakespeare
Quarter 3
The Book Thief (Poland/Germany) Marcus Zusak
Screwtape Letters (England) CS Lewis
Quarter 4
The Queen of Water (Ecuador) Laura Resau
A free-choice novel from a geographical location not covered in class
Other Authors/locations covered—texts will be provided: Dostoyevsky (Russia), Lahiri (India), and Lee (China).