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Westmont High School English Department

Year by Year Standards

 


Freshmen

All Freshmen are taught the following minimum requirements:

 

Rules:

¥     MLA heading (fall)

¥     MLA margins (fall)

¥     MLA citations (intext only) (spring)

 

Writing:

¥     expository paragraph (fall)

¥     9th Grade Literary Terms

      (half in fall & half in spring)

¥     3 paragraph essay (spring)

¥     bio or autobio essay (spring)

¥     word roots Etamology (spring)

 

 

 

Grammar:

¥     Hit List       (half in fall & half in spring)

 

Core Literature:

¥     Romeo and Juliet

¥     The Odyssey / Mythology

¥     ÒThe Most Dangerous GameÓ

¥     ÒThe InterlopersÓ

¥     ÒThe Scarlet IbisÓ

 

Juniors

All Juniors are taught the following minimum requirements:

 

Rules:

¥     agreement

¥     passive and active voice

¥     removal of unnecessary Òto beÓ verbs

 

Writing:

¥     five paragraph essay (fall)

¥     summary essay

¥     career research project

¥     sentence types & diction

¥     thesis variety

¥     rhetorical devices

¥     SAT preparation

¥     11th Grade Literary Terms

 

Core Literature:

¥     The Great Gatsby

¥     Their Eyes Were Watching God

¥     The Crucible

¥     Poetry


Sophomores

All Sophomores are taught the following minimum requirements:

 

Rules:

¥     MLA integration of quotes (fall)

¥     MLA outline & Works Cited (spring)

¥     MLA format (spring)

 

Writing:

¥     3 paragraph essay review (fall)

¥     word root vocabulary development (fall)

¥     10th Grade Literary Terms

      (half in fall & half in spring)

¥     dev. of argument in essay (spring)

¥     5 paragraph essay (spring)

¥     SAT preparation (spring)

¥     CAHSEE preparation (spring)

¥     SHARP Project (spring)

 

Grammar:

¥     phrases, parallel structure (fall)

 

Core Literature:

¥     Night

¥     Siddhartha

¥     House on Mango Street

¥     Macbeth

 

Seniors

All Seniors are taught the following minimum requirements:

 

 

Rules:

¥           all of the above

 

 

Writing:

¥     Senior Project Research Paper

¥     UC & State Application Essays

¥     12th Grade Literary Terms

 

 

Core Literature:

¥     Hamlet

¥     Death of A Salesman

¥     Poetry

¥     3 of the following: Beloved, Oedipus Rex,

      Bless Me Ultima, Joy Luck Club,

      The Stranger, A Lesson Before Dying, or Cry the Beloved Country