English 10 Honors

Ms. Meghan Reid

Period 1: Room A212: A, B, and C Days Period 3: Room 245: A, C, and D Days

Contact Information and Availability

• Meghan Reid

• mreid@livingston.org

• 973-535-8000, x5745

• Emails preferred

• Availability

• Before school in Room A212 daily

• During lunch by appointment

• After school in Room A212 Tuesday-Friday (appointments preferred)

• Writing Lab– Media Center--Lunch

Essential Questions

• Marking Period 1: Influences on Perception

• How do our Family and/or Social Class Affect Us?

• Marking Period 2: The Human Condition

• To What Extent do Individuals Control their own Lives?

• Marking Period 3: Ideal Relationships

• What Is a Hero?

• Marking Period 4: Emotional Response

• What Makes Something Frightening?

Anchor Texts and Literature Explored

• MP1: “A Christmas Memory”- Truman Capote, “Shooting Dad”- Sarah Vowell, “My Papa’s Waltz”- Theodore Roethke

• MP2: “The Fatalist”*- Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Superman and Me”*- Sherman Alexie, “The Road Less Traveled”*- Robert Frost

• MP3: “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”*- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “On Being a Cripple”*- Nancy Mairs, “O Captain, My Captain”*- Walt Whitman

• MP4: “The Cask of Amontillado”*- Edgar Allan Poe, “Regarding the Pain of Others”*- Susan Sontag, “Fear”*- Raymond Carver

Ms. Reid’s Teacher Websitehttp://www.livingston.org/Domain/1354

Turnitin.com

• The originality report teaches students about plagiarism and encourages original work

• Grademark allows teachers to make comments on student work online– Students will have an online portfolio of their work, and they can use turnitin.com to track commonly made mistakes