Objectives

Gwinnett County Public Schools 10 th Grade Language Arts Academic Knowledge and Skills (See the 2007-2008 AKS Bulletin or visit http://gwintranet.gcps.k12/gcps-mainweb01.nsf.)

Units to be studied first semester

Literature

Ancient Worlds

•  Sumeria

•  Egypt

•  Middle East

•  Greece

•  Rome

China and Japan

India

•  Ramayana

•  Mahabharata

Africa

•  Proverbs

•  Sundiata

•  Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Gifted)

 

Major Works:  Gilgamesh; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex ;  Golding, Lord of the Flies

Writing

narrative writing (frame story), literary analysis, Gateway practice, poetry, as well as descriptive and personal writings for Working Portfolio

Vocabulary

Units 1-7

(See Vocabulary link for a list of words and definitions; quizzes are given every two weeks.)

Units to be studied second semester

Literature

European Middle Ages

•  Medieval Romance heroes

•  Dante

Renaissance

A. The European Renaissance

•  Sonnets: Petrarch, Shakespeare

•  Boccaccio: The Decameron

•  Cervantes: Don Quixote (excerpts)

B.  The English Renaissance

•  Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream,  Much Ado

Rationalism

      Voltaire: Candide

Romanticism

A.  Drama

•  Goethe: Faust (excerpts)

•  Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac

B.  Poetry

•  Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Heine, Wordsworth

 Realism            

         Ibsen: A Doll's House

 Modernism

        Wilde:  The Importance of Being Earnest

           Kafka: The Metamorphosis

Writing

Gateway practice, literary analysis, personal narrative, working portfolio assignments

Vocabulary

Units 8-15

(Again, these are on the Vocabulary Link.)

The teacher reserves the right to make adjustments in course content as needed.

Class Policy

Texts

-- Prentice Hall Literature: World Masterpieces ($61.95)

-- Prentice Hall: Writing and Grammar ($55.55)

-- Vocabulary Workshop, Fourth Course

Students will be responsible for textbooks issued to them. If the book is lost, the student must pay for its replacement.

Materials

Please bring the following materials to class daily:

Paper, blue or black pens, pencils, and lined composition paper

Binder or folder for keeping vocabulary lists and notes

You will occasionally need to bring folders to class to contain portfolio assignments.

When the bell rings, students should be seated with two sheets of paper on the desk ready to begin class. Any assigned work should also be on the desk ready to turn in.

Grading

A 100-90 B 89-80 C 79-74 D 73-70 F 69-0

Grades for individual assignments are based on a point system determined by the difficulty/importance of the assignment. However, different categories of assignments are weighted according to the following scale:

40% - major assignments (tests, essays, projects)

40% - daily grades (homework, classwork, quizzes)

10% - performance final exam

10% - objective final exam

Late Assignments

Major assignments may be turned in late, but each day the assignment is late will result in a 10-point penalty (weekends count 20-points). Missed homework assignments may be turned in, but no credit will be awarded. Computer/printer problems are not acceptable excuses; if your printer does not work, bring a disc to school and use a school printer. You may also email assignments to me, but be sure to check with me in the morning to verify that I have received the work.

Make-up work

Work missed because of an excused absence should be made up within five school days in accordance with County policy. Students are responsible for seeing me before or after school for assignments. This rule does not apply to pre-announced tests, projects, or essays. Projects and essays should be emailed on the due date; tests should be made up the day the student returns to school.

Cheating

Cheating is an egregious academic offense, and I take it very seriously. Every assignment submitted for credit is accepted as the student's original work. Copying from a book, article, internet source, essay, newspaper, another student's paper, or any other written or printed source is cheating. The student/s involved will receive zeroes for the assignment and will be referred for disciplinary action.

A bit about me . . .

               BEVERLY BATEMAN

Teacher, Language Arts Department, Parkview High School

                                                     EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN, 2001

·         Research  Topic:  “Perceptions of School Size”

M.A. in English, 1977; B.A. in English with Minor in Education, 1973 , Georgia State University, Atlanta

·         Thesis Topic:  “Time and Memory—Faulkner’s Use of Bergson in Light in August”

State of Georgia T-6 Certification (6-12), Gifted In-Field (valid through 6/30/10)

·        College Board Certified in Advanced Placement Literature and                  Composition and Advanced Placement Language and Composition

 ·        

Journalist, Newspaper and Magazine, 1977-1995

·         Official Arts Coverage, 1996 Olympics Program

·         Contributing Editor for the Arts, Atlanta Magazine, 1985-1995

·         Theatre Editor, Creative Loafing, 1986-1990

·         Theatre Critic, Gwinnett Daily News, 1982-86

·         On-Air Reviewer, State of the Arts, monthly Georgia Public Television Broadcast, 1985-86

·         Weekly columnist, Atlanta Gazzette, 1977-79

·         Scholary work includes “Up Tempo of ‘the Velocity of Celebration’” in the University Press of Mississippi’s 1997 book, Conversations with Albert Murray

·         Regular contributor to many periodicals, including Town & Country, Sports Illustrated,

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, American Theatre, NCTE Connections, Southern Exposure,

Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles and Kennesaw magazines

Teacher, Half-time Language Arts, Berkmar High School, Lilburn, GA, 1990-91

·         Taught  College Prep Freshman and Junior Language Arts

Teacher, Language Arts, Blackshear Junior High School, Pierce County, GA, 1979-1981

·         Eighth-Grade Academic and Honors English

·         Sponsored student newspaper and drama productions

·         Chosen to develop Individual Advisement System for Pierce County

Instructor, American College for the Applied Arts, Atlanta, GA, 1978- 1979 

·         Taught Journalism and Composition, while sponsoring College Newspaper, Anzieger

Copywriter/Producer, Georgia Power Company, Training Services Division, 1977-78

·         Copywriter/Producer of Instructional Videos and Conductor of Employee Workshops

·         Freelance multimedia and film work for Frank Reider Film, John Clower, Jack Morton

Productions (Atlanta Chamber of Commerce), and O’Connor Burnham and Company

      (International Educational Film Festival)

·         Advertising Copywriter/Producer for Georgia Power Company, 1970-73

Tutor, Department of English, Georgia State University, 1975-76

                                                ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS

·        1990 National Teacher's Exam Ranking: 98th Percentile in General Knowledge,  97th Percentile in Communication Skills, 95th Percentile in Professional Knowledge.

·        Scored in 98th Percentile Nationally on Graduate Record Exam in Advanced English.

·        Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities

·        Multiple Honoree Who’s Who Among American Teachers

·        Georgia Association for Gifted Children

·        GSU Senior Award, Dean's Key,  Alpha Lambda Delta, Mortar Board, Lambda Iota Tau,

      Sigma Tau Delta, Kappa Delta Epsilon Honoraries

·        Editor of GSU literary magazine and staff of GSU newspaper.

·        Grant to study at The Southern Performing Art Critics Institute, 1984

·        Fellowships to work two summers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1983 and 1985

· Ford Foundation New Playwrights Grant, 1977

·        AT&T New Playwrights Grant, 1990

·        Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grants, 1989 and 1992

·        Recipient of ten-thousand-dollar Metropolitan Life Foundation Grant, with the Atlanta  Public Schools and Alliance Theatre, on Dreamcatcher, which won second-place in 1999 Georgia AAA One-Act Competition and was chosen for State Thespian Conference

·        American Advertising Federation Gold Award for Writing and Production, 1973

·        Public Utitlities Advertising Association’s First Place for Newspaper Series, 1972

·        Charter Member IMAGE Film and Video Center, 1976-91

·        Women in Film, 1976-77

·        Board Member of Southeast Playwrights Project, 1988-90

·        Longtime Member of Dramatists Guild

·        Represented by The Dorese Agency, Cathedral City, California

BEVERLY BATEMAN

SELECTED PLAYS PRODUCED

The Light from Mr. Day, Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 1974. Academy Lab Theatre, 1985

Right with the World, Overground Theatre, London, 1975

In Places, Academy Theatre, Atlanta, 1977. (Produced under New Playwrights Grant from the Ford Foundation.)

Phone for Title, with John Stephens, Academy Theatre, 1977

The Wishing Place, Academy First Stage, 1985. (directorial debut of the Alliance Theatre's Kenny Leon)

Heart of the Nation, Academy Theatre for Youth, touring Southeast 10/87-6/88, Academy First Stage, 2/88

My Bed is a Boat: The Adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson, a Theatre Gael/Academy Theatre co-production featuring John Forrest Ferguson at the Academy 1988-89 and on tour through 1994.  Bryan Mercer and Hugh Adams toured in the role for Theatre Gael's Worldsong Children's Theatre, 1992-98, while actor Lee Look currently performs it in California. “Isn’t your run-of-the-mill children’s play . . . deftly shifting between humor and drama, performed with dexterous grace,” Lynne Heffley,  Los Angeles Times,  3/18/99.

Zion!,Theatre in the Square, Marietta, Georgia, 4/90-8/90. (box-office record) Theatre of Riverside Church, New York City, produced by New Federal Theatre, 1/27/91-12/22/91. Review Quotations: "The kind of piece struggling venues will need more of to survive . . . Zion is in the turn of a phrase, the beauty of a single human voice, and in Zion! gospel music and the black religious idiom aren't the crutch of the disaffected but a radical cultural praxis of the highest order, a place where faith isn't a balm but the sharpest of weapons," Gary Dauphin, The Village Voice, (12/10/91). Zion! "conveys a pungent sense of history's wheels grinding painfully forward. . . . churns up a lot of pertinent thoughts about race relations and religion . . . Although its white Confederate characters are monstrous, they are also sharply drawn individuals," Stephen Holden, The New York Times, (12/5/91). "In this seemingly simple tale of slaves striving to fulfill themselves spiritually, the author (Bateman) has effectively epitomized the black experience in America," Sy Syna, Backstage, (12/91). "The play is nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . The parameters of music as a dramatic tool have been enhanced by this stunning play," Abiola Sinclair, The New York Amsterdam News, (12/28/91).      

A Quick Revue Before the Examination, 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta, 5/92

Sir Wonderooms, produced by The High Museum of Art, 9/92, and in an open-ended tour by Randy Taylor of Create and Young Audiences          

Over the Garden Wall: Beatrix Potter and Friends, produced by Theatre Gael's Worldsong Children's Theatre, 4/93 through present. Actress Holly Stevenson has toured this show to other countries, and enjoyed a sold-out, two-week run at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoake, Virginia.

Hush, Child!  Can't You Hear the Music?, an adaptation of stories collected by Rose Thompson and published by the University of Georgia Press,Theatre Emory’s Brave New Works, 3/96

Dreamcatcher, a project funded by a ten-thousand-dollar grant from Metropolitan Life Foundation.  Performance by North Atlanta School of Performing Arts won 2^nd place at 1999 Georgia One-Act Competition.

The Haunting of Edgar Allan Poe, produced by Aurora Theatre’s “Learning Library” for all Gwinnett Public Schools  Eighth Graders, 2001-2003

Invincible Louisa, produced by Theatre Gael’s Wordsong Children’s Theatre and Young Audiences, 2002-2005

Composition Standards

Syllabus Acknowledgement Form

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