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