Honors English 10 - Semesters 1 & 2

2 Semesters (semester 1 is offered during the fall and semester 2 is offered in spring)

Students will discover how the human experience is the foundation of the best stories, plays, poems, films, speeches, and articles by evaluating its presence across genres and throughout history. With a strong focus on the art of writing and speaking, students will engage with a number of rich texts to uncover how authors and speakers use their words to reflect their thoughts on the world. Through writing about literature and research-based topics, students will further develop their voices to create compositions of excellence. 

Topics for the Honors course include:

• Composing a poem with ambiguous meaning

• Creating a fictional text based on a well-researched universal theme

• Illuminating a real-world problem through fiction

• Composing a rhetorically-charged closing argument for a fictional character

• Comparing and contrasting elements of leadership in non-fiction and fiction

• Interpreting purpose and theme in an allegorical text

• Paraphrasing rigorous literary texts