Q4 Syllabus and Calendar

2016 Q4: English Language Arts Syllabus & Calendar

Week 1

Essay Prompt: Argument Essay. What should people do to live ke ola pono?

Draft due: 4/13/16

Final Essay due: 4/15/16

Week 2

Essay Prompt: Research Essay. What do you want to do after high school? Research three different options and present your findings. Cite your sources correctly. (Not sure how to cite? Go to: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/)

Draft due: 4/20/16

Final Essay due: 4/22/16

Book Report due: 4/22/16

Week 3

Essay Prompt: Research Essay: What are some issues that are important to Hawaii today? Where else are those issues important? Research the connection between Hawaii and the global community in regards to these issues. Cite your sources correctly. (Not sure how to cite? Go to: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/)

Draft due: 4/27/16

Final Essay due: 4/29/16

Week 4

Essay Prompt: Informative Essay: What is something important the world needs to know about the Hawaiian Language?

Draft due: 5/4/16

Final Essay due: 5/6/16

Book Report: 5/6/16

Week 5

Essay Prompt: Informative Essay: Choose any topic related to Kauai o Manokalanipo and Hawaiian culture, beliefs and practices and explain it so that someone from another place could understand what it is and why it is important.

Draft due: 5/11/16

Final Essay due: 5/13/16

Week 6

Essay Prompt: Argument Essay: Maika’i no kaua’i, hemolele i ka malie? Explain your love and care for your island home.

Draft due: 5/18/16

Final Essay due: 5/20/16

Book Report: 5/20/16

Break for La Hoikeike and Graduation

Week 7

Essay Prompt: Narrative Essay: Tell a story about the way indigenous knowledge is valued, applied and perpetuated in your own life.

Draft due: 6/8/16

Final Essay due: 6/10/16

Book Report #4 due: 6/10/16

Week 8

Essay Prompt: Narrative Essay: Explain how Hawaiian Language, beliefs and practices have become instinctive for you.

Draft due: 6/15/16

Final Essay due: 6/17/16

Final: What have you learned this quarter? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What would you like to learn in the future

Final Due: 6/17/16

Extra Credit: Extra essays, reports, poetry, book reports