Grade 10 English weekly lessons

Suggested weekly sequencing of competencies for lesson pacing.

English

Term 1

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • character
    • characterization
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. character
    • character vs. self
  3. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. society
    • character vs. nature/environment
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: plot: in medias res
  3. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • spectacle, dialogue, and music
    • point of view and narrative techniques
    • diction
    • tone and mood
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • rhyme and meter
    • figures of speech and sound devices
    • style
    • patterns and motifs
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • organic unity
    • sign and referent
    • binary opposition
  2. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context: deictic
    • speaker/narrator and place
    • speaker/narrator and situation
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context
    • co-text
    • collocation
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within psychological context
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within biographical context
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within historical context
  4. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • spectacle, dialogue, and music
    • point of view and narrative techniques
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  2. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • tone and mood
    • style
    • organic unity
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  2. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: short film.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
  4. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: short film.
  2. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: spectacle, dialogue, and music
  4. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within psychological context

Term 2

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts: documentaries and vlogs
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Examine how visual elements are used as tools to achieve the intended meaning of informational texts: vectors, viewpoint, technical editing, animations
  2. Extract significant information.
  3. Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  2. Determine the veracity of the information presented: credibility of the author, accuracy of information, relevance, timeliness, objectivity, coverage
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
  2. Assess the quality of journalistic articles based on standard development principles: simplicity and brevity, precision, objectivity and factuality, fairness and balance, ethics
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Synthesize significant information.
  2. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  3. Organize significant information using various technique.
  4. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
  3. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  4. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  2. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: documentaries and vlogs.
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender's meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of application
  2. Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities: parts and formats, organizational patterns, politeness strategies
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Examine the sender's voice for clarity of purpose and meaning: diction, style, tone and register, point of view, sentence structure
  2. Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
  3. Identify one's purpose and meaning in writing letters.
  4. Compose a letter of application.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Compose a letter of application.
  2. Revise for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
  4. Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.

Term 3

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: academic texts: research report
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze the use of discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms in research, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definition of words.
  2. Extract significant information.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge
  2. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Synthesize significant information.
  2. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  3. Organize significant information using various technique.
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
  2. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Synthesize significant information.
  3. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Revise the text for coherence.
  2. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  3. Edit the text for textual consistency.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  4. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  2. Synthesize significant information.
  3. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: research report.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: research report.
  2. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  3. Synthesize significant information.