NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL BELMONT

Academics

English

Philosophy

The English Department believes an educated person is one who communicates effectively in both the written and oral use of the English language, recognizes the beauty and power of words, and appreciates that literature provides insights into personal beliefs, cultures, history, politics, and religions.

Our Essential Standards

Literature Standards:

  1. Recognize, identify and apply at least 25 literary terms used in the analysis of the short story, the novel, mythology and drama.
  2. Demonstrate through written and oral communication the relationship between prevailing literary themes in literature.
  3. Participate and clearly communicate opinions and interpretations of classroom material.
  4. Demonstrate through written and oral work an understanding of how culture contributes to the cause and resolution of human conflict.

Writing Standards:

  1. Write paragraphs containing topic and concluding sentences; develop the topic through the uses of examples, direct quotations, concrete details and commentary; show the logical relationship between sentences and use transitional devices to link paragraphs.
  2. Write short, objective, critical papers analyzing characters, conflict, themes, setting, point of view, symbols and other literary devices while employing a variety of sentence structures in all written assignments and correct common grammatical and usage errors.
  3. Incorporate primary source quotations using correct format, punctuation, and citation in writing formal, critical, analytical essays of at least 500 words.
  4. Write critical papers which reflect an understanding of the common themes in the works studied and write a college entrance autobiographical or personal essay.

Cross-Curricular Anchor Assignments

9th Grade

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