Course Description:
This rigorous semester-long language arts course does not have any live meetings. The course is aligned to national standards. The course will focus on the areas of reading literature, reading informational, writing and speaking and listening. During this course, students will work on the standards that focus around citing text evidence, summarizing, point of view, main idea, argument writing, informational writing and narrative writing.

National Standards:
-RL.10.1 - Citing Text Evidence Literature
-RL.10.2 - Summarizing
-RL.10.6 - Point of View 
-RI.10.1 - Citing Text Evidence
-RI.10.2 - Main Idea
-RI.10.2 - Summarizing
-W.10.1 - Argument Writing
-W.10.2 - Informational Writing
-W.10.3 - Narrative Writing

Course Format:
At the beginning of the week, a “List of Learning” Google Doc will be posted on the Outschool classroom page. Each “List of Learning” will have steps students need to complete for the week. These steps will include a lesson video to watch when a new standard is being introduced, reading assignments, discussion questions to respond to and give feedback to other classmates, assessments to complete, writing assignments, and other assignments or extension opportunities to share with other students. Any work that will be turned in for grades/scores, will be in the form of a Google Doc. Students will need to share the document with the teacher and other students will not have access to the document. A Google Spreadsheet will be shared with each student in order to track progress when an assignment is graded/scored.

It is encouraged to have the readings and assignments done by each due date so students can participate in discussions together. To give each student a more meaningful learning experience, all students need to participate in the discussion questions by responding to the questions and giving feedback to other students.

Students will interact with one another through written discussion questions and activities posted on the Outschool classroom page. Some examples of activities where students will interact are Kahoot games and sharing of projects. Google Docs will be used for assessments that are given a grade/score to obtain privacy. The teacher will interact with students through asynchronous lessons, discussion questions and providing feedback on the assignments.

Course Schedule (Subject to Change):
Weeks 1, 2, 3, & 4: How We See Things Unit
Weeks 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9: Absolute Power Unit
Weeks 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14: Hard-Won Liberty Unit

Week 1: How We See Things Unit
-Lesson: Summarizing
-Reading: “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” Poems (2 pages)
-Reading: “The Trouble with Poetry” and “Today” (3 pages)
-Reading: “Coming to Our Senses” (6 pages)

Week 2: How We See Things Unit
-Lesson: Main Idea
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Reading: “Every Second Counts” (4 pages) 
-Reading: “The Night Face Up” (9 pages)

Week 3: How We See Things Unit
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Lesson: Summarizing
-Reading: from “The Math Instinct” (4 pages) 
-Reading: “Whale Sharks Use Geometry to Avoid Sinking” (4 pages) 
-Reading: "Musée des Beaux Arts” and “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (2 pages)

Week 4: How We See Things Unit
-Lesson: Narrative Writing
-Narrative Writing Piece

Week 5: Absolute Power Unit
-Lesson: Main Idea
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Reading: from “Why Read Shakespeare?” (5 pages)
-Reading: “Shakespearean Drama” (3 pages) 
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Act 1 (18 pages)

Week 6: Absolute Power Unit
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Act 2 (12 pages)
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Act 3 (15 pages)

Week 7: Absolute Power Unit
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Act 4 (16 pages) 
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Act 5 (12 pages)

Week 8: Absolute Power Unit
-Lesson: Point of View 
-Reading: from “Holinshed’s Chronicles” (3 pages)
-Reading: “The Macbeth Murder Mystery” (5 pages)
-Reading: “5.P.M., Tuesday, August 23, 2005” (1 page)

Week 9: Absolute Power Unit
-Lesson: Informational Writing
-Informational Writing Piece

Week 10: Hard-Won Liberty Unit
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence 
-Reading: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (18 pages)

Week 11: Hard-Won Liberty Unit
-Lesson: Summarizing
-Lesson: Main Idea 
-Reading: “Speech at the March on Washington” (6 pages) 
-Reading: from “Revolution 2.0” (7 pages)

Week 12: Hard-Won Liberty Unit
-Lesson: Summarizing  
-Reading: from “Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin” (4 pages) 
-Reading: “The Briefcase” (9 pages)

Week 13: Hard-Won Liberty Unit
-Lesson: Point of View 
-Reading: “Bile” (8 pages)
-Reading: “Cloudy Day” (2 pages)

Week 14: Hard-Won Liberty Unit
-Lesson: Argument Writing
-Argument Writing Piece