English 10: Choices, Conscience & Consequences — Grade 10
Reading libraryStudy by chapter and unit; use the parent teaching plan to schedule the school year.
Chapter 1 · Close Reading & Literary Analysis
Use the grade’s short story to explain how a change in a character or narrator develops a larger idea. Analyze two details from different parts and one craft choice.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
Read the complete Jekyll and Hyde alongside original poems and performance scenes. Track changing knowledge, analyze formal choices, and write a revised whole-work comparison.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 3 · Informational Reading & Media
Read all of Wollstonecraft’s assigned Chapter 2 and the fictional cleanup packet. Analyze historical argument, source limits, and media framing; write a factual explanatory brief.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 4 · Argument, Rhetoric & Tragic Choices
Develop and test a source-based policy argument, then analyze tragic choices across the complete Macbeth. Distinguish motives, pressures, explicit predictions, inferred guarantees, and consequences.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 5 · Research & Source-Based Writing
Develop a focused research question about the assigned book or the source packet’s issue. Collect and evaluate additional verifiable sources, build an evidence matrix, and write a source-based explanation or argument.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 6 · Narrative, Memoir & Revision
Write a fictional narrative or a memoir about a choice that changed your understanding. For a memoir, distinguish remembered events from later knowledge. Revise a significant scene and explain what you changed.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 7 · Language, Style & Conventions
Revise your own sustained writing for syntax, diction, conventions, and vocabulary in context. Keep a twelve-entry editing log explaining before/after wording and effects.
Chapter review · Chapter quizChapter 8 · Comparative Interpretation, Discussion & Presentation
Compare responsibility and consequences across two complete works. Analyze a difference in form and context, test an alternative interpretation, discuss evidence, and present a revised account.
Chapter review · Chapter quiz