1. Colegio Beato Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
English Department
Mrs. Rivera
2009-2010
10 Grade Syllabus
Mark Twain
“You may never a discovery if you’re afraid to make a
mistake.”
Tenth Grade Syllabus
Title of Course: English Tenth Grade
Teacher: Jannette Rivera
Course Textbook: Mc Dougal Literature
Description of the Course: Based on the constructivist approach and the development of different
educational techniques the course will prepare all students to reach their potential ability to communicate
affectively in English in the four strands of the language:

2. 1) Oral Communication
2) Written Communication
3) Reading Comprehension
4) Literary Appreciation
General Objectives: The students will recognize the importance of the English acquisition as the
development of the competencies and linguistic skills geared at promoting his/her personal culture, social,
ethical, aesthetical, growth and dealing with the expectations and demands of society.
Genre of Literature
Fiction
*New York Women
Edwidge Danticat Page 672-681
Who is the Real You?
Literacy Skills:
Style
Imagery
Reading Skills
sequence
Vocabulary Skill
Vocabulary in context
Grammar Skills
Appositive
Appositive phrase
Writing skills
Compare and contrast sentences
*The Lady, or The Tiger?
-Frank R. Stockton Page 682-693
How do you make Decisions?
Literacy skills
Analyze characters
Analyze setting
Analyze plot
Reading skill
Paraphrase
Vocabulary
Grammar skill
Participles
Participal phrase
Writing skill
Develop complete answers to questions
*The Snapping Turtle
Joseph Bruchac Page 766-781
* Assigned Novel Tuesdays with Morry

3. Literacy Skills
Elements of Novel
Reading Skills
Cause and effect
Moral Values
Character Trait
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabu;lary in context
Oral Skill
Discussion of Human Values
Writing Skill
Composition
Where do we get our Values?
Reading Skill
Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary
Grammar Skills
Gerunds
Gerunds phrases
Writing Skills
Literature analysis
* Pecos Bill
Mary Pope Osborne Pages 800-809
What is a Folk Hero?
Reading Skill
Hyperbole
Vocabulary
Grammar Skill
Fragments
Recognizing run-ons
Writing Skill
Participles
Participial Phrase
Genre of Literature
Nonfiction
Autobiography
*Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama Pages 830-845

4. What Makes you Proud?
Reading Skill
Cause and effect
Interpret
Autobiography
Vocabulary Skill
Connotative
Denotative
Grammar Skill
Clauses(Adjective, Adverb and Noun)
Memoir
*One Last Time Gary Soto Page 816- 825
What can you learn from a Job?
Reading Skill
Sensory details
Writing Skill
Analyze literature
Vocabulary Skills
Correct vocabulary in context
Grammar Skill
Semicolon
*Roughing It Pages 704-713
Mark Twain
Why do we Exaggerate?
Literacy Skills
Voice hyperbole
Understatement
Reading Skills
Context clues
Descriptive details
Vocabulary
Grammar Skills
Participles
Participles phrases
* Assigned Novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Literacy Skills
Elements of Novel
Reading Skills
Analyze sensory Details
Analyze cause and effect
Character Trait
Vocabulary
Vocabu;lary in context
Essay
Personal Essay Us and Them
David Sedaris Page 716-727
What’s Really Normal?
Literacy Skill
Irony

5. Reading Skill
Style of different Essays
Evaluate style
Identify Style
Grammar Skill
Complex sentence
Independent Clause
Dependant Clause
Essay The Sanctuary of School
Lynda Barry Pages 994-1001
Why do we need schools?
Literacy Skills
Author’s purpose
Reading Skills
Cause and effect
Vocabulary Skill
Vocabulary for reading and writing
Base words
Preffix
Affixes
Grammar Skills
Negatives
Speech
Speech Educating Sons
Chief Canasatego 1002-1005
Who Decides what’s important?
Literacy Skills
Elements of speech
Elements of nonfiction in Historical Context
Reading Skill
Comparison and contrast
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary in context
Grammar
Fragments
Run-ons
Writing Skills
Stucture of Letter
Media
On Line Article
The Great Chiago Fire of 1871
Michael Burgan Page 876-883
Where do you get your Facts?
Reading Skill

6. Supporting Details
Writing Skill
Taking notes
Problem- Solution Essay
Grammar Skill
Commas
Capitalize
Magazine Article
Over the top: The True Adventures of a Volacano Chaser
Renee Skelton Pages 894-903
What is your dream job? Why do people seek danger?
Reading Skill
Adjust reading to purpose
Grammar Skill
Gerunds
Gerunds Phrases
Vocabulary Skill
Vocabulary in context
Writing Skill
Grafic aid(representation of information)
Interview
Interview with a Songcatcher
Brian Handwerk Page 908-917
What does music say about us?
Reading Skill
Fact
Opinion
Vocabulary Skills
Connotative
Denotative
Grammar Skills
Infinitive
Infinitive phrases
Diagramming phrases
*Assigned novel: History An American Plague: The True and Terrifing Story of the Yellow Fever
Epidemic of 1793.
Literacy Skills
History
Fact or Opinion
Reading Skills
Chronological Order
Writing Skills
Cause and Effect
Vocabulary

7. Context Clues
Vocabulary in Context
Poetry
Reader’s Workshop: Appeciating Poetry Page 574-581
Margaret Walker
What makes a Poem?
Literacy Skills
Figurative language
Meaning of stanza
Sounds
Rhyme schemes
Repetition
Reading Skills
Reading strategies
Setting
Paraphrase lines
Outline
Vocabulary Skills
Word meaning
Vocabulary in context
Grammar Skills
Punctuation
Poem - Smile: Willow and Ginkgo Page 582-585
Eva Merriam
Poetic Form
Stanza
Literary Skills
Metaphor
Simile
Reading Skills
Visualize
Grammar Skills
Sentence structure
Poem- Introduction to Poetry Pages 586- 587
Billy Collins
Literary Skills
couplet
Reading Skills
Figurative Language
personification
Grammar Skills
Sentence structure
*Students must always read the author’s information and historical background of all readings to
familiarize with the topics they are about to do and identify the author’s message.
* This syllabus is subject to change depending on the developing of the course.
*The teacher will use different resources to help students understand the topics and make them

8. pertinent for them.
Colegio Beato Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
English Department
Mrs. Rivera
2009-2010
9 Grade Syllabus

9. Robert Cormier
“Kindness is a hard thing to give away; it keeps coming back
to the giver.”
Ninth Grade Syllabus
Title of Course: English Ninth Grade
Teacher: Jannette Rivera
Course Textbook: Mc Dougal Little InterActive Reader And Writer for Critical Analysis
Mc Dougal Little Grammar For Writing
Description of the Course: Based on the constructivist approach and the development of different
educational techniques the course will prepare all students to reach their potential ability to communicate
affectively in English in the four strands of the language:
1) Oral Communication
2) Written Communication
3) Reading Comprehension
4) Literary Appreciation
General Objectives: The students will recognize the importance of the English acquisition as the
development of the competencies and linguistic skills geared at promoting his/her personal culture, social,
ethical, aesthetical, growth and dealing with the expectations and demands of society.
Genre of Literature

10. Fiction
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
Pages 5-33
Literacy Skills
Narrative Structure
Elements of Fiction
Writing Skills
Essay
Grammar Skills
Prepositions
Prepositional Phrase
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary in Context
* Assigned Novel- The Chocolate War-Author Robert Cormier
Literacy Skills
Elements of Novel
Human Values
Making Decisions
Writing Skills
Summarize
Reading Skills
Quotes
Sequence
Comprehension
Grammar Skills
Punctuation
Sentence Structure
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
Pages 53-69
Literacy Skill
Characterization
Point of View
Reading Skills
Main Idea
Details
Writing Skill
Character Sketch
Grammar Skill
Conjunctions
Intrjections
Vocabulary Skill
Context Clues
The Cast of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
Pages 73-87
Literacy Skill
Setting

11. Mood
Imagery in Fiction
Trace of ideas
Writing Skill
Paragraph
Response to literature
Imagery
Grammar Skill
Subject and Verbs
Vocabulary Skill
Idioms
The Scarlet Ibis
James Hurst
Pages 91-113
Literacy Skill
Theme
Symbol
Writing Skill
Expository Essay
Grammar Skill
Direct
Indirect Object
Vocabulary Skill
Vocabulary in context
Where Have you Gone, Charming Billy?
TimO’Brien
Pages 199-215
Literacy Skill
Style
Voice
Writing Skill
Personal Narrative
Summarize
Paraphrase
Grammar Skill
Predicate Nominative
Predicate Adjective
Subject Complements
Vocabulary Skill
Suffixes
Prefixes
Blue Ain’t No Mocking Bird
Toni Cade Bambara
Pages 219-235
Literacy Skill
History
Culture
Author’s purpose
Writing Skill
Short Response

12. Grammar Skill
Patterns
Complements
Vocabulary Skill
Word Roots
Nonfiction
The Right to the Street of Memphis
Richard Wright
Autobiography
Pages 37-49
Literacy Skills
Myth
Fact
Writing Skills
Short Response
Grammar Skill
Diagraming Basic Parts
Vocabulary Skill
Denotation
Cognoatation
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King
Speech
Pages 151-165
Literacy Skills
Style
Writing Skills
Personal Writing
Grammar Skills
Adjective Phrase
Adverb Phrase
Vocabulary Skills
Idioms
The Lost Boy
Sara Corbett
Magazine Article
Pages 117-131
Literacy Skills
Author’s Purpose
Writing Skills
Parts Of a Magazine Article
Grammar Skills
Appositives
Appositive Phrases
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary in Context
The House of Mango

13. Sandra Cisneros
Novel Excerpt
Pages 135-147
Literacy Skills
Author’s Perspective in Fiction
Character Description
Writing Skills
Summarizing
Grammar Skills
Structure of Sentence
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary in Context
Poetr y
I Ask My Mother to Sing
Li-Young Lee
Page 170
Literacy Skills
Figurative language
Meaning of stanza
Sounds
Rhyme schemes
Repetition
Reading Skills
Reading strategies
Setting
Paraphrase lines
Outline
Vocabulary Skills
Word meaning
Vocabulary in context
My Papa’s Waltz
Theodore Roethke
Page 169
Lieracy Skills
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Reading Skills
Inferences
Vocabulary Skills
Use of Language
Grape Sherbet
Rita Dove
Page 171
Literacy Skills
Lyric
rhythm

14. Reading Skills
Inference
Vocabulary Skills
Use of Language
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Page 187
Literacy Skills
metaphore
Reading Skills
description
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary in context
The Seven Ages of Man
William Shakespeare
Page 185
Literacy Skills
Monologue
Reading Skills
description
Vocabulary Skills
Vocabulary in context
*Students must always read the author’s information and historical background of all readings to
familiarize with the topics they are about to do and identify the author’s message.
* This syllabus is subject to change depending on the developing of the course.
*The teacher will use different resources to help students understand the topics and make them
pertinent for them.
Colegio Beato Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
English Department
Mrs. Rivera
2009-2010
12 Grade Advanced Syllabus

15. William Shakespeare
“Kindness is a hard thing to give away; it keeps coming back
to the giver.”
Twelve Grade Syllabus
Title of Course: English Twelve Grade
Teacher: Jannette Rivera
Course Textbook: Mc Dougal Littell Literature
Description of the Course: Based on the constructivist approach and the development of different
educational techniques the course will prepare all students to reach their potential ability to communicate
affectively in English in the four strands of the language:
1) Oral Communication
2) Written Communication
3) Reading Comprehension
4) Literary Appreciation
General Objectives: The students will recognize the importance of the English acquisition as the
development of the competencies and linguistic skills geared at promoting his/her personal culture, social,
ethical, aesthetical, growth and dealing with the expectations and demands of society.
Genre of Literature
Fiction
The Interlopers
Saki
Pages 394-405
What is wrong with holding a Grudge?
Literacy Skill
Theme and Setting
Reading Skill

16. Monitor
Writing Skill
Analize Literature
Grammar Skill
Subordinate Clauses
Two Friends
Guy de Maupassant
Pages 406- 419
What would you do for a friend?
Literacy Skill
Symbol
Reading Skill
Inferences
Writing Skill
Analyze Literature
Grammar Skill
Compound predicate
Sentence structure
A Chip of GlassRubi
Nadine Gordimer
Pages 628-643
What would you sacrifice fro justice?
Literacy Skill
Theme
Persuasion
Reading Skill
Draw Conclusions
Writing Skill
Personal Opinion
Grammar Skill
Compound Complex Sentence
Sentence Structure
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Leo Tolstoy
Pages 644-664
How Important is Wealth?
(Scriptural Writing The New Testament)
Literacy Skill
Didactic Literature
Reading Skill
Purpose in Reading
Writing Skill
Compare-Contrast Essay
Grammar Skill
Patterns
Marrige is a Private Affair

17. Chinua Achebe
Pages 896-907
Whose Life is it anyway?
Literacy Skill
Cultural Conflict
Reading Skill
Predict
Writing Skill
Personal Essay
Grammar Skill
Gerunds
*Assigned Novel
To Kill A Mockingbird
Literacy Skill
Story Elements
Reading Skill
Predict
Sequence of Events
Draw Conclusions
Writing Skill
Research APA
Grammar Skill
Active Voice
Passive Voice
Drama
Literaray Analysis Workshop, Shakespearean
When does ambition lead to tragedy?
Pages 1080-1095
Can your conscience mislead you?
Literacy Skill
Characteristics of Drama
Characteristics of language
Draw Conclusions
Reading Skill
Strategies of Reading
Strategies of Drama
Writing Skill
Personal Opinion Essay
Grammar Skill
Descriptive Details using Adjective Clauses
*Assigned Novel
Macbeth
Literacy Skill
Elements of Drama
Reading Skill Idea
Sequence
Summarize
Inferences
Main
Writing Skill

18. Compare Contrast Essay
Research
Grammar Skill
Adjectives Clauses
Literary Analysis Workshop
Greek Tragedy and Medieval Romance
Pages 956-965
What quest live on?
Literacy Skill
Characterization
Theme
Conflict
Style
Reading Skill
Inferences
Clasical Drama
Writing Skill
Persuasive Essay
Sentence Structure
Phrases
Clauses
Antigone
Sophocles
Pages 968-1009
What is your ultimate loyalty?
Literacy Skill
Tragedy
Chorus
Irony
Reading Skill
Classical Drama
Writing Skill
Personal Opinion Essay
Grammar Skill
Sentence Structure
A Marriage Proposal
Anton Chekhou
Pages 242-259
Why do people argue over silly things?
Literacy Skill
Characters
Characters Traits
Reading Skill
Stategies in a Play
Writing Skill
Analysis in Literature
Grammar Skill
Type of Sentence
Nonfiction
Memoir

19. Night
Elie Wiesel
852-863
Can Humanity Triumph over evil?
Literacy Skill
Authors Feelings
Conclusions
Tone
Reading Skill
Connect with Author
Writing Skill
Personal Essay
Word Choice
Grammar Skill
Sentence Structure
*Novel - Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Literacy Skill
Elements Of Novel
Reading Skill
Predict
Writing Skill
Research
Compare Contrast Essay
Grammar Skill
Sentence Structure
Montgomery Boycott
Coretta Scott King
880-895
How can we Change Society?
Literacy Skill
Character Trait
Reading Skill
Fact
Fiction
Writing Skill
Essay
Grammar Skill
Patterns
Diagrams
Essay
Tolerance
E. M. Forster Persuasive Essay
448-453
How Accepting are you?
Literacy Skill
Elements of nonfiction
Persuasive Techniques
Reading Skill

20. Reason
Evidence
Writing Skill
Persuasive Essay
Grammar Skill
Diagrams
The Plot Against People
Humorous Essay Russell Baker
488-493
When are little things a Big Deal?
Literacy Skill
Tone
Diction
Reading Skill
Chronological Order
Writing Skill
Coparitive Contrast Essay
Grammar Skill
The Hyphen
Why leaves Turn Color in the Fall?
Essay Diane Ackerman
494-507
Can Beauty be captured in words?
Literacy Skill
Authors Purpose
Reading Skill
Cause and Effect
Writing Skill
Analyze Literature
Grammar Skill
Participles
Participle Phrases
Speech
On Nuclear Disarmament
Speech Carl Segan
592-602
What would make the world Safer?
Literacy Skill
Rhetorical Device
Reading Skill
Repetition
Parallelism
Writing Skill
Analyze Nonfiction
Grammar Skill
Sentence Structure
Media
The After math of September 11

21. Documentary
936-953
What are the Signs of the times?
(The students will create a documentary)
Literacy Skill
Reflection of Historical Events
Visual Aspects
Daisy America’s Back
Political Ads
666-669
How do candidates get your vote?
(The students will create a political party and will present their campange)
Literacy Skill
Persuation
Poetry
Literary Analysis Workshop: The Language of Poetry
686-697
Where do you find Poetry?
Literacy Skill
Poetic Elements
Devices
Imagery
Figurative Language
Reading Skill
Analyze
Writing Skill
Word Choice in a Paper
Grammar Skill
Precise Verbs
Nature
There will come soft Rains
Sara Teasdale
696-703
Literacy Skill
Sound Device
Reading Skill
Strategies in reading
Writing Skill
Word Choice
Grammar Skill
Precise Verbs
Meleting at Night
Robert Browning
696-703
Literacy Skill

22. Sound Device
Reading Skill
Strategies in reading
Writing Skill
Word Choice
Grammar Skill
Precise Verbs
The Sound of Night
Maxine Kumin
696-703
Literacy Skill
Sound Device
Reading Skill
Style in Poetry
Writing Skill
Analyze
I dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson
704-707
What is our place in Nature?
Literacy Skill
Lyric Poetry
Reading Skill
Figurative Language
Writing Skill
Analyze Poem
*Students must always read the author’s information and historical background of all readings to
familiarize with the topics they are about to do and identify the author’s message.
* This syllabus is subject to change depending on the developing of the course.
*The teacher will use different resources to help students understand the topics and make them
pertinent for them.

23. Colegio Beato Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
English Department
Mrs. Rivera
2009-2010
7th Grade Syllabus
Gary Soto
“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”
~ Thomas Carlyle ~
Seventh Grade Syllabus
Title of Course: English Seventh Grade
Teacher: Jannette Rivera
Course Textbook: Interchange Book - InterchangeWorkbook
Sourcebook Reading and Writing
Description of the Course: Based on the constructivist approach and the development of different

24. educational techniques the course will prepare all students to reach their potential ability to communicate
affectively in English in the four strands of the language:
1) Oral Communication
2) Written Communication
3) Reading Comprehension
4) Literary Appreciation
General Objectives: The students will recognize the importance of the English acquisition as the
development of the competencies and linguistic skills geared at promoting his/her personal culture, social,
ethical, aesthetical, growth and dealing with the expectations and demands of society.
Genre of Literature
Fiction
Growing up
Mrs. Olinski
E. L. Konigsburg
Pages 62-69
Literary Skills
Point of View
Vocabulary Skill
Prefixes
Writing Skills
paragraph
Grammar Skills
Sentence Punctuation
The Day It Rained Cockroaches
Paul Zindel
Pages 70-77
Literary Skills
Tone
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
Homophones
Writing Skills
Narrative paragraph
Grammar Skills
Sentence Fragment
Esther Forbes
Ready
Esther Forbes
Pages 98-105
Literary Skills
Characterization
Vocabulary Skills
Suffixes
Idioms

25. Writing Skills
Character sketch
Grammar Skills
Commas in a series
It’s Tonight
Esther Forbes
Pages 106-113
Literary Skills
Historical fiction
Vocabulary Skills
Context clues
Latin roots
Writing Skills
Descriptive paragraph
Grammar Skills
Use of Good, Well, Bad, badly
Tough Times
Hanging Out
S. E. Hinton
Pages 116-123
Literary Skills
Slang
Vocabulary Skills
Word families
Writing Skills
poem
Grammar Skills
Proper Nouns
Being Fourteen
Paula Danziger
Pages 124-131
Literary Skills
Inferences
Context clues
Synonyms
Vocabulary Skills
Context clues
Synonyms
Writing Skills
Journal entry
Grammar Skills
Capitalization
Native Americans
Attack
Ann Tuner
Pages 134-141
Literary Skills
Personification
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
Pronunciation
Writing Skills

26. Story beginning
Grammar Skills
Verb Tense
Decisions
Louie Hirshfield
Jay Neugeboren
Pages 170-177
Literary Skills
Characters
Vocabulary Skills
Homographs
Writing Skills
Character sketch
Grammar Skills
Adjectives
George Santini
Jay Neugeboren
Pages 178-185
Literary Skills
Anecdote
Vocabulary Skills
Word Analysis
Word Families
Writing Skills
review
Grammar Skills
Titles
Nonfiction
Colonial America
Eyewitness to the Boston Tea Party
Wesley S. Griswold
Pages 80-87
Literary Skills
Main Idea
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
Pronunciation
Writing Skills
letter
Grammar Skills
Letter-Writing form
Lexington and Concord
Bruce Bliven, Jr.
Pages 88-95
Literary Skills
Chronological Order
Vocabulary Skills

27. Prefixes
Writing Skills
summary
Grammar Skills
Run-On- Sentence
Native Americans
On the Red Man’s Trail (Speech)
Chief Seattle
Pages 142-149
Literary Skills
Parallelism
Vocabulary Skills
Synonyms
Prefixes
Writing Skills
News article
Grammar Skills
Subject-Verb Agreement
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Washwoman (Autobiography)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Pages 152-159
Literary Skills
Climax
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
Word Analysis
Writing Skills
Compare and Contrast Paragraph
Grammar Skills
Capitalization
The Washwoman (Continue)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Pages 160-167
(Same Skills)
Child Labor
Migrant Family Life
Brent Ashabranner
Pages 196-203
Literary Skills
Nonfiction
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
Suffixes
Writing Skills
3 paragraph essay
Grammar Skills

28. Commas
Self-Reliance
Fear (Autobiography)
Gary Soto
Pages 232-239
Literary Skills
Tone
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
Writing Skills
Paragraph of opinion
Grammar Skills
Apostrophes
*Students must always read the author’s information and historical background of all readings to
familiarize with the topics they are about to do and identify the author’s message.
* This syllabus is subject to change depending on the developing of the course.
*The teacher will use different resources to help students understand the topics and make them
pertinent for them.