Course Overview:
English 10 Credit Recovery is an opportunity for students who experienced difficulty with English 10 to review important skills and recover credit from a failed class. While it is a condensed class, offering students the opportunity to work at a faster pace and finish early, it highlights the important reading and writing strategies offered sophomore year. A variety of reading and writing opportunities are presented, including student-selected articles for close reading and summary. Writing strategies and skills will make up the writing strand. Students will read a variety of shorter texts, practicing and further exploring and refining the skills of careful readers, including marking and annotating texts, decoding difficult vocabulary, and making inferences/predictions to aid their reading comprehension.
To achieve long-term impact, Sophomore English is designed to build learning around the following enduring understandings:

• Storytelling carries vital information about our cultures, histories and heritages.
• Writing is an effective means of communicating information.
• Writing communicates more than just information.
• Different formats of writing require different skills for clarity and intent.
• Careful, active, dedicated readers become better writers

English 10A Credit Recovery Semester One

• Close text reading:
• Text Features
• Theme
• Inference and prediction
• Summary
• Story elements and literary devices
• Author's style, author's purpose

• The writing process (prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing):
• Organization
• Elaboration
• Persuasive devices, appropriate style and language
• Conventions
• Timed writing and scoring based on WASL scoring criteria/rubrics