9th-10th+Honors+A


 * ~ Unit ||~ Start Date (duration) ||~ Essential Questions ||~ Content / Concepts ||~ Skills ||~ Texts ||~ Supporting / Supplementary Materials ||~ **Assessment** ||
 * SUMMER READING || summer previous || How can I expand my mind, my world and my reading skills? || * Read //A Raisin in the Sun//
 * Read a book of choice from summer reading list || * Mind and world expansion
 * Reading comprehension
 * Vocabulary acquisition
 * || //A Raisin in the Sun// by Lorraine Hansberry

Student choices from guided list ||  || * Literary Data Form 9/15 || **__Literature__** What are genres in literature? What is a novel? What do I need to understand about novels to read them well? What are themes and symbols and how are they understood?
 * In-class essay (diagnostic) ||
 * Unit 1: The Novel || 8/15 -

Why is summarizing an important skill? Why is evidence important
 * __Composition__**

__**Mechanics**__ How can I punctuate my writing correctly so that it is highly readable

How does punctuation create meaning? || __**Literature**__
 * Read //Of Mice and Men// (part of summer asssignment)
 * Discuss and contemplate the American dream, collective and individual responsibility for our fellows, individualism versus cooperation
 * Research historical context of novel and present findings to class: oral and visual presentation
 * Understand novel as genre and basic components and terms
 * Fill out TASCPT: information re title, author, setting, characters, plot summary, themes
 * Understand symbols and allegory (systems of symbols)

__**Composition**__
 * Practice writing summaries of different lengths
 * Write an **Essay of Exemplification** on Lord of the Flies
 * Practice writing strong topic sentences
 * Practice using transitions

__**Mechanics**__
 * Use of semi-colons
 * Comma splice
 * Comma splice with transitional adverbs
 * Transitional adverbs versus conjunctions
 * Colon || __**Literature**__
 * Reading comprehension
 * Understanding historical context
 * Understanding plot structure and characterization
 * Deriving theme
 * Recognizing symbols

__**Composition**__
 * Summarizing
 * Expressing theme
 * Writing 1-2 page expository essays
 * Using exemplification in argument

Using commas, semi-colons and colons correctly. || //Of Mice and Men// by John Steinbeck
 * __Mechanics__**

//Warriner's English Grammar and Composition//, Second Course

//Easy Writer// || My hand-outs

Internet resources || * Content quiz > movements in American literature: What do I need to understand about short stories to read them well? What are the components of a short story and how can they be identified and analyzed? What is the role of setting? How can I research historical context? What are themes and how can they be derived? What are symbols and how are they understood?
 * TASCPTs
 * Context presentations
 * Accordian summaries
 * Unit Test
 * Essay
 * Grammar quizzes ||
 * Unit 2: Genres and Movements || 10/1 - 10/5 || What is a literary style or movement? What literary movements have characterized American literature since Puritan times How can we characterize and differentiate the styles of different literary movements? || * Become familiar with philosophies, hallmarks and characteristic genres of the following styles/periods/
 * Puritan literature
 * Age of Enlightenment
 * Romantic Era
 * Realism
 * Understand brief historical context of each movement/era
 * Classifying unfamiliar passages by identifying hallmarks of period/sty || Learning to recognize hallmarks of literature from different movements and/or eras in American literature. || My own materails ||  || Ungraded group work ||
 * Unit 3: Short Story || 10/5 - 11/20 || **__Literature__**

How do I conceive,organize, and write an **Essay of Comparison/Contrast?**
 * __Composition__**

How do I correctly integrate and punctuate quoted material when writing about literature || **__Literature__**
 * __Mechanics__**
 * Read assigned stories and selections.
 * Read "Rip Van Winkle" and Poe out loud in class to deal with difficulties in 19th century syntax; also paraphrasing text
 * For "Rip Van Winkle" research and present to class information on historical context
 * Discuss various thematic issues raised by stories
 * Fill out TASCPTs: information re title, author, setting, characters, plot summary, themes
 * Understand symbols
 * Understand short story as genre and basic components and terms
 * Understand development of short story from origins in folk tales through Romanticism and Realism.

__**Composition**__
 * Essay of Comparison/Contrast


 * Mechanics**
 * Integration of quoted material
 * Punctuation of quoted material || __**Literature**__
 * Reading comprehension
 * Understanding plot structure, characterization, and setting
 * Deriving theme
 * Recognizing symbols
 * Learning to read with historical context in mind

__**Composition**__
 * Summarizing
 * Expressing theme
 * Organizing and writing a 2 page essay of comparison/contrast
 * Writing effective introductions to essays

__ Basic Model __ “The Old Demon” by Pearl Buck __Origins in Myth__ "Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun” (Cherokee myth) __Romanticism__ __ Realism __ __Modernism__
 * Mechanics**
 * Able to integrate and punctuate quotations. || //Elements of Literature// (USA) and hand outs for the following stories:
 * "Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
 * “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
 * "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
 * “Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
 * “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
 * “The Lame Shall Enter First” by Flannery O’Connor (novella)

//Warriner's English Grammar and Composition//, Second Course

//Easy Writer// || Print outs of stories not in text

Grammar exercises and worksheets of my own. || * Ungraded group paraphrasing || 11/25 || **__Composition__**
 * Reading comprehension quizzes
 * Graded TASCPTs
 * Graded homework questions on reading
 * Unit Test
 * Comparison/Contrast Essay on "Rip van Winkle" ||
 * FALL BOOK REPORT

How do we organize information to convince? || __**Composition**__ Assign essay on //The Lame Shall Enter First//. Choice of several prompts all of which call for point-by-point analysis rather than descriptive or narrative approachesto the material.

Writing Workshops giving critical guidance to the planning stages of the essay to reinforce analytic and organization skills (see next column_ || **__Composition__**
 * Organizing by points
 * Brainstorming for points
 * Critiquing points
 * Ordering points
 * Elaborating and developing points
 * Proving and documenting points
 * Transitioning between points || //The Lame Shall Enter First// by Flannery O'Connor ||  || **Point-by-point Essay** on //The Lame Shall Enter First// ||
 * Unit 4: Drama 1 || 12/1 || How can I approach and understand a play by Shakespeare when the language is so difficult to understand? What conventions do I need to be familiar with? || Learn about William Shakespeare and the conventions of Elizabethan theater.
 * Study the historical background and plot of Julius Caesar.
 * Paraphrase select speeches.
 * Watch the film, Acts I-III.
 * Discuss character and theme || * Experience //Julius Caesar// as drama
 * Achieve understanding of plot, characters, themes and symbols in play
 * Learn how to use paraphrase as a path to understanding complex texts
 * Gain first familiarity with Elizabethan English and theater ||  || //The Tragedy of Jullius Caesar//, 1953 film starring Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud || * Content quizzes
 * Context/Content Test
 * Paraphrasing of select speeches ||
 * Unit 5: Drama 2 || 1/3 -1/25 || How can I read/watch and understand a modern play? What conventions do I need to be familiar with? || **__Literature__**
 * Learn about Tennessee Williams and modern theater and its influences
 * Read the play
 * Understand the stagecraft and sets.
 * Analyze, characters and themes
 * Analyze symbols and symbolic effects


 * __Composition__**
 * Write a **40 Minute In-class Essay** on a previewed prompt on //The Glass Menagerie// || **__Literature__**
 * Achieve understanding of plot, characters, themes and symbols in play
 * Gain famliarity with conventions of modern theater

What is poetry? How is poetry different from prose? How are poems and songs related? What are the elements of a poem? How can I use paraphrase to make sense of the literal level of a poem? What is the difference between denotation and connotation? How can I "read" for tone and emotional affect? How are symbols different from images? How can I venture and justify an interpretation of a poem? How can I recognize and analyze musical effects in a poem?
 * __Composition__**
 * Learn to write a focused essay on literature within a time limit. || //The Glass Menagerie//by Tennessee Williamsin //Elements of Literature//, USA ||  || * Content quizzes
 * Context/Content Test
 * **40 Minute In-class Essay** on //The Glass Menagerie// ||
 * Unit 6: Poetry || 1/ 25 - 3/15 || **__Literature__**

__**Composition**__ How can I write clear essays expressing my understanding of a poem's content and form? || **__Literature__** Read, discuss and interpret the following poems: __Models__ __ Songs __ "Who by Fire" and "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen __ Puritan Era __ __ Romantic Era __ __ Modernism __
 * "Road Not Taken" bu Robert Frost
 * "O Western Wind" by Anon
 * “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet
 * Terms: lyric poem,, paraphrase, internal structure of argument, speaker, simile, metaphor, symbol, stanza, rhymed couplet, stressed and unstressed syllables, iambic tetrameter
 * “To A Waterfowl” by William Cullen Bryant
 * “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
 * “I Hear America Singing,” “I understand the large hearts of heroes,” and “Song of
 * Myself” by Walt Whitman
 * “Heart! We will forget him!” “Success is counted sweetest” and "A narrow fellow in the grass –“ by Emily Dickinson
 * “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound
 * “Chicago” by Carl Sandberg
 * “What happens to a dream deferred” and “I, Too” by Langston Hughes
 * e.e. cummings


 * __Compositiion__**
 * Essay of Literary Analysis: Poetry Explication** || **__Literature__**
 * Exposure to well known poems of high quality from the American cannon
 * Ablity to read these poems and unfamiliar poems more accurately
 * Ability to recognize types of poems and know what kinds of approaches to apply
 * Ability to analyze structure, rhetorical and musical properties of poems
 * Ability to recognize poems from different periods of American history and read them in context

__**Composition**__
 * Ability to explain in clear language what a poem might mean
 * Ability to recognize basic rhetorial and musical devices
 * Ability to quote poetry correctly
 * Ability to write an **Essay of Literary Analysis: Poetry Explication** || //Elements of Literature, USA// || my handouts

Blog site for interpretive challenges || * Group and individual paraphrasing
 * Written answers to homework questions on assigned poetry
 * Blog post explications of unfamiliar poems
 * Unit Test on Poetry: application of technical terms; interpretation of poems discussed in class; explication of unfamiliar poems
 * **Essay of Literary Analysis: Poetry Explication** ||
 * SPRING BOOK REPORT || Early spring semester || What kind of context information do I need to understand an historically based play || * Read and discuss//The Crucibl//e by Arthur Miller
 * Research context topics and prepare on line background pages to share with and present toclass at large
 * Watch the school's performance of the play || * Reading comprehension
 * Understanding historical context
 * Understanding plot structure and characterization
 * Deriving theme || T//he Crucible// || Play performance

Internet research and presentation tools || * Quiz on content and character How do we detect authorial bias in such works? How has written communication in America changed since the 1600's. How have the internet and specifically blogging affected the communication of opinon? || __**Literature**__ Read and discuss the following works: __Puritan Era__ __Age of Enlightenment__ __Romantic Era__ __Modern Era__ __**Composition**__ Essay of Exemplification: using an extended narrative example to demonstrate a maxim || **__Literature__**
 * On-line research presentation ||
 * Unit 7: Essays, Chronicles, Journalism || 3/15 -5/1 || How have ideas and events been recorded in written form? What are essays, histories, chronicles, diaries, maxims, editorials, satires?
 * Selections from //Of Plymouth Plantation// by William Bradford
 * Selections from //The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin//
 * Selected //Sayings of Poor Richard// by Benjamin Franklin
 * Selections from //Civil Disobedience// by Henry David Thoreau
 * Selected speech, editorial, magazine articles
 * Selected blog post
 * Reading comprehension
 * Dealing with 17th, l8th and l9th century syntax and diction
 * Developing sensitivity to tone of voice and bias

Selections from //Of Plymouth Plantation// by William Bradford
 * __Composition__**
 * Ability to illustrate abstract ideas with concrete examples
 * Ability to bring evidence in support of a point
 * Ability to entertain in writing || From //Elements of Literature, USA//
 * Selections from //Of Plymouth Plantation//
 * Selections from //The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin//
 * Selected //Sayings of Poor Richard//
 * Selections from //Civil Disobedience//

From outside sources: What do I need to understand about novels to read them well? What are the components of a novel and how can they be identified and analyzed. What are themes and how can they be derived? What are symbols and how are they understood?
 * Contemporary editorial
 * Contemporary opinion from the blogosphere ||  || * Content Quizzes
 * Interpreting Maxims
 * Paraphrasing exercises
 * Essay of Extended Example/Narration: telling a story to exemplify a maxim. ||
 * Unit 7: Novel 2 || 5/1 - 5/25 || __**Literature**__

__**Composition**__ How can I write effective summaries? How can I write effective statements of themes. What is exemplification. What are the basic steps in writing an expository essay? How can I use examples to make points in argument? How can I organize an Essay of Exemplification

How can I improve the grace, economy and precision of my sentences? || __**Literature**__
 * __Mechanics__**
 * Read //The Great Gatsby.//
 * Context Presentations: individual online researched presentations with accompanying oral presentation
 * Class discussion: setting, characters, themes
 * Literary terms: **realism, social realism, plot, plot**
 * **curve (introduction, rising**
 * ** action, climax, falling action, resolution), character, flat character, round **
 * ** character, conflict, internal conflict, external conflict, theme, symbol, motif **


 * __Composition__**
 * In-class essay

Revising sentences || __**Literature**__
 * __Mechanics__**
 * Reading comprehension
 * Understanding historical context
 * Understanding plot structure and characterization
 * Deriving theme
 * Recognizing symbols

__**Composition**__
 * Summarizing
 * Expressing theme
 * Writing 1-2 page expository essays


 * __Mechanics__**
 * Clear, precise prose sentences || //The Great Gatsby// by F. Scott Fitzgerald || On-line resources: internet research, power points, prezi, etc. || * Comprehension quizzes
 * Unit Exam: Short answers, short essays
 * In-class essay
 * Literary data sheet ||
 * Vocabulary || on-going || How can I improve my vocabulary? || Lessons 1-15 ||  || //Vocabulary for Achievement,// Book 4 ||   || Quizzes ||