Mrs. Abrams ENGLISH 10 HONORS
Literature Covered
this Year
SUMMER READING
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
SEMESTER 1​
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Twelve Angry Men
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Select Shakespearean Sonnets (18, 29, 35, 78, 116, 130, 144, 148)
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Macbeth
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Choice of Othello, King Lear, Twelfth Night, or Taming of the Shrew​
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"Song"
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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
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"Holy Sonnet 10"
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"An Essay on Man" (first stanza only)
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The Rape of the Lock (Canto III / Canto V)
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Paradise Lost (up to line 270)
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"To His Coy Mistress"
SEMESTER 2​
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"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
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"The World is Too Much With Us"
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"We Are Seven"
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"Kubla Khan"
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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"The Lamb" / "The Tyger"
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"Holy Thursday" / "Holy Thursday"
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"The Divine Image" / "The Human Abstract" / "A Divine Image"
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Frankenstein
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DISTANCE LEARNING​
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Lord of the Flies
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1984​​​​​​
Class Assignments
During this period of social distancing, class assignments will be posted through Google Classroom. Parents who would like to be added to the site for guardian email summaries may send and email request for this to kabrams@conejousd.org
Going Further Suggestions...
Week 10 - Marketing with 1984
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Week 9 - Victorian Poetry
Week 8 - A real world connection to our literature!
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Week 7 - Some additional dystopian stories
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Week 6 - Two dystopian stories as we work on our Ideal Communities
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Week 5 - All about satire! *Starting this week, there will be the option to earn points for these!
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Week 4 - A choice of two post-apocalyptic short stories
Week 3 - A short story about an unexpected and life-altering experience (it seems fitting, at the moment)
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Week 2 - Vampires
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Week 1 - Gothic Short Stories & Novellas
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Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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"The Vampyre" by John William Polidori
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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OFFICE HOURS
9:15-10:30 → Open Question Time (Zoom or email)
10:45-11:30 → Going Further Discussions
11:30-12:00 → Email Responses only