English

10^th Grade English Study Skills & Expectation

• Identify key terms
  • Vocabulary use in context
  • Use dictionary/thesaurus
  • Note-taking(Cornell notes)
  • Annotation
  • Reading with a purpose
  • Finding the main idea
  • Identifying powerful academic terms
  • Forming study groups
  • Time management
  • Stop & check for comprehension
  • Identifying author's purpose
  • Using evidence to support views
  • Create flashcards
  • Color coding notes
  • Review information before the test
  • Learning logs (reflections)
  • Memorization
  • Find a comfortable place to study
  • Avoid procrastination
  • Set a homework schedule
  • Mnemonic imagery (use acronyms to help memorize)

11^th Grade English Study Skills & Expectation

NON-FICTION: CRITICAL READING VOCABULARY

When you read articles and essays, are you able to identify, understand and explain:

1. Topic
2. Key Issue or Concern/Problem
3. Author's Purpose
4. Audience
5. Key Questions Raised
6. Argument or Main Idea
7. Assumptions
8. Positive Implications
9. Negative Implications
10. Consequences
11. Thesis of Text
12. Evidence
13. Key Examples
14. Key Terms
15. Solutions and Recommendations

LITERATURE: CRITICAL READING VOCABULARY

1. Theme
2. Narrator
3. Point of View
4. Characterization
5. Conflict
6. Allegory
7. Satire
8. Mood
9. Tone
10. Protagonist
11. Antagonist
12. Inference
13. Sequence of Events
14. Compare and contrast
15. Literal (factual)
16. Figurative(non-literal, non-factual)
17. -examples like simile, metaphor,personification, alliteration, hyperbole, etc.
18. Connotation vs.denotation
19. Diction
20. Impact of diction
21. Verse (poetry)
22. Stanza (poetry)
23. Rhetoricalappeals (ethos, pathos, logos)
24. Conflicting view points
25. External and internal conflicts
26. Irony, Paradox,Contradiction