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English 10A

English 10A is the first semester of a year-long Language Arts course. In English 10, we will study and explore poetry, narratives, short stories, novels, non-fiction essays, articles and informational texts. Our comprehension of these texts will be facilitated by analyzing and evaluating the literary elements, plot, character development and themes of each work. As part of this course, we will continue to develop writing skills by experimenting with multiple forms of writing. We will clarify thinking and writing by improving our ability to support opinions, providing expressive details and using the writing process as a means to strengthen ideas. This course will provide ample opportunities for students to imaginatively and critically express themselves through multimedia resources as they make essential connections to the world, themselves and literature.

English 10A course materials created by the Open High School of Utah are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. This course contains open educational resources produced by other organizations which may use a different open license. Please confirm the license status of these third-party resources before reusing them. See OpenCourseWare for additional information about licensing.

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

--Lazurus Long (fictional character)

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. --Edward R. Murrow

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. – Robert Cormier, author

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. ~Robert Cormier, author

"I suggest that we consider whether, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Victor Frankenstein is essentially a man of words, not of actions. and that his whole existence is largely a semantic one." --Stephen C. Behrendt in Approaches to Teaching Shelly's Frankenstein

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." - William Wordsworth (Romantic poet)

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be--a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.--Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell. --the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
--Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly's mother)