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11th grade Curriculum Map: 2010-2011 School YearEnglish III

* Note: “Sacred Book List” Addendum is at the end of this document

Quarter #1August 23 to October 22

Essential Questions:

1. In what ways does the American Dream manifest itself in American life?2. How does one create a personal definition of the American Dream?

Unit Goals

1. To understand and define the concept of the American Dream.2. To identify and synthesize a variety of perspectives that exists about the American Dream.3. To conduct a survey and use primary sources as a functional text to prove or disprove an assumption.

Student Published Portfolios: For each of the first three quarters, students are required to complete three to four published writing portfolio products. Quarter 4 is devoted to completion of the Laureate Research Project. .

Pacing: This map is one suggestion for pacing. Springboard pacing guides precede each unit in the “About the Unit” sections and offers pacing on a 45-minute class period length.

Prentice Hall Literature – Use selections from Prentice Hall throughout the quarter to reinforce the standards being taught as well as the embedded assessments within the SpringBoard curriculum.

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QUARTER #1 SpringBoard Curriculum Pacing Guide

August 23 – October 22

Standards and Benchmarks Unit Pacing Guide SpringBoard Unit/Activities Assessments

Literature: Analyze relationships

among major genres Theme Main ideas Interpret Poetry for

effects of literary devices, mood, theme

Identify and analyze types of text

Reading: Background knowledge Text structure Predictions Main idea Essential message Paraphrasing Summarizing

SpringBoardUnit 1: 6 weeks

8/23 – 10/1

Unit 1: The American Dream

Activities 1.1 – 1.7 Focus: Literary Analysis Reading Process Reading

Comprehension Main Idea Close reading Marking the text Diffusing vocabulary Word maps

Embedded Assessment #1:“Presenting Findings from a Survey” – p.81

Embedded Assessment #2:“Synthesizing the American Dream” –p.92

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Writing: Prewriting Purpose Audience Drafting Editing Expository writing

Vocabulary: Use new vocabulary Determine meaning Alternate word choice

Grammar: Edit for correct spelling,

root words, prefixes, suffixes

Edit for correct grammar and usage

SpringBoardBegin Unit 2

10/4/10

Activity 1.8 – 1.16 Focus: Writing Applications Argumentative writing Creative writing Extended responses

AP/College Readiness Connections:The units in this level focus on refining the following important skills and knowledge areas for AP/College Readiness.

Unit 1:

• Researching and presenting the influence of American historical/ philosophical eras and on America’s literary and social history. • Developing a deep understanding of rhetoric and how an author presents his/her argument through a variety of literary and stylistic elements. • Applying the elements of a strong argument including the hook, claim, concessions/

SpringBoard Online End-of-Unit 1 Test: www.springboard.collegeboard.com

Student Portfolio Published Pieces

Formal Assessments

PH On-Line Assessments

Teacher Observations

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refutations, support, and call to action. • Identifying and applying different syntactical structures to writing. • Extending knowledge of the writing types, or modes, to include an individual synthesis paper.

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Quarter #2


1. How do newspapers impact public opinion or public perception?2. How does a writer use tone to advance an opinion?

Unit Goals

1. Identify the main components and role of a newspaper’s op-ed page.2. To analyze how writers use logic, evidence, and rhetoric to advance their opinions.3. To write persuasive pieces and refute the opinions of others.4. To recognize the symbols and references that editorial cartoonists use.5. To analyze and apply satirical techniques.




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October 26 – January 14


Literature The student will provide

textual evidence for the identified theme

The student creates complex, multi-genre responses to reading 2+works using multiple critical perspectives

Analyze author’s development of time/sequence

Explain how ideas, values, and themes reflect historical period of time

Analyze the characteristics of a variety of types of texts

Reading Identify cause and effect

relationships in text

SpringBoardUnit 2 (continued):

10/26 – 1/14

Unit 2: American Forums: The Marketplace of Ideas

Activities 2.1 – 2.14 Focus: Close Reading Marking the text Diffusing Literary Analysis: Fiction

and Nonfiction Writing Process: Prewriting

and revising Vocabulary development Editing for language

conventions

Embedded Assessment #1:“Creating an Op-Ed Page”

Embedded Assessment #2:“Writing a Satirical Piece”

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Writing Draft writing by

establishing logical organizational patterns with supporting details

Revise by evaluating the draft for logical organization, voice, point of view, and word choice

Write expository essays that speculate on causes and effects.

Use technology in a format appropriate to the purpose

Vocabulary Listen to , read, and discuss

challenging text Use context clues to

determine meaning of unfamiliar words

Grammar Editing for correct use of

grammar usage, verb tense, parts of speech, noun / pronoun agreement, parallel structure, etc.

Activities 2.15 – 2.23 Focus: Reading Process Vocabulary development Writing process: editing for

language conventions


Unit 2: • Addressing and appealing to audiences in a variety of persuasive genres. • Analyzing how writers effectively use rhetoric, including controlling tone, establishing and maintaining voice, and achieving appropriate emphasis through diction and sentence structure. • Applying effective rhetorical strategies and techniques in students’ own writing.

SpringBoard Online End-of-Unit 1 Test) www.springboard.collegeboard.com


Formal Assessments



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Quarter #3


1. How are the components of rhetoric applied to the creation and delivery of persuasive speeches?2. How can artistic expression advance social commentary?

Unit Goals

1. To define and apply the appeals and devices of rhetoric.2. To analyze, create, and present persuasive speeches.3. To interpret and analyze texts and situate them in their communication context.4. To analyze, create, and present a dramatic scene about a societal issue.




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January 18 – March 18


Literature The student will analyze

and evaluate information from text features

Select a variety of age and ability appropriate nonfiction materials to expand core knowledge

Analyze and compare variety of traditional, classical, and contemporary literary works

Analyze, interpret, and evaluate author’s use of descriptive language( tone, irony, mood, imagery, pun, alliteration, onomatopoeia, allusion), figurative language, common idioms, and mythological and literary allusions.

SpringBoard Unit 31/18 - 3/18

Unit 3: The Power of Persuasion

Activities 3.1 – 3.8 Focus: Reading Comprehension Vocabulary development Writing Process:

Prewrite/Draft/Edit/Publish Literary Analysis –

Nonfiction

Embedded Assessment #1:“Creating and Presenting a Persuasive Speech?”

Embedded Assessment #2:“Creating and Performing a Dramatic Scene”

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Reading Analyze author’s

purpose/perspective in a variety of texts

Identify cause and effect relationships in text

Analyze a variety of text structures

Compare and contrast elements in multiple texts

Writing Pre-write Draft Revise by evaluating the

draft for development of ideas and content, organization, voice, pt of view, and word choice

Vocabulary Id and understand

conceptually advanced prefixes, suffixes, and root words

Grammar Edit for varied sentence

structure, elimination of misplaced modifiers, fragments, etc.

Activity 3.9 – 3.23 Focus: Information and Media

Literacy Research Process Writing Applications Editing for Language

Conventions Informative writing


Unit 3: • Close analysis of rhetorical devices and techniques used in creating persuasive speeches. • Stylistic development, including controlling tone, establishing and maintaining voice, and achieving appropriate emphasis through diction and sentence structure. • Literary analysis of a dramatic work of lasting



Formal Assessments



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literary merit in order to arrive at multiple interpretations. • Development of increasing maturity and complexity in both reading and writing.

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Quarter #4

Teacher choice of delivering Unit 4 or Unit 5:

Unit 4 - An American Journey Unit 5 - The Pursuit of Happiness

Essential Questions:1. How can an author’s style construct and reflect

identity?2. How do communication skills enhance self-

expression?

Essential Questions:1. What does it mean to pursue happiness?2. How does a writer represent research through

multiple texts?




Research Project - Quarter 4 is devoted to completion of the Laureate Research Project as the main writing component.

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March 29 - June 10


UNIT 4

Literature Analyze and discuss

characteristics of subgenres (satire, parody, allegory)

Interpret and evaluate author’s use of descriptive language (tone, irony, mood, imagery, etc)

Reading Author’s purpose Main idea

Writing Pre-write, draft, revise

Vocabulary Context clues Multiple meanings

SpringBoard Choice:Either Unit 4 or Unit 5

3/29 – 6/10

Unit 4: An American Journey

Activities 4.1 – 4.17


Unit 4: • Studying a work of literary merit to analyze its structure, style and themes. • Analyzing a writer’s rich and complex writing style and using that analysis to refine students’ own writing style.

Embedded Assessment #1

Either Unit 4 or Unit 5

Embedded Assessment #2

Either Unit 4 or Unit 5



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Grammar Edit for correct use of

punctuation

UNIT 5

Literature The student will analyze the

way in which theme represents a view or comment o life, providing textual evidence

Reading Analyze and evaluate

similar themes or topics by different authors

Media Literacy Develop a comprehensive

search plan, analyze and apply evaluative criteria

Write an informational report integrating information and make distinctions between significant information

Understand important ethical practices dealing with slander, copyright, plagiarism, etc.

• Employing strategies for active independent reading and literary analysis. • Writing and speaking confidently in academic, social, and professional situations.

Unit 5: The Pursuit of Happiness

Activities 5.1 – 5.25

Unit 5: • Analyzing and interpreting samples of good writing to identify and explain a writer’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques in order to employ them in students’ own writing. • Creating and sustaining arguments, interpretations, and reflection based on readings, research, and/or personal experience. • Analyzing the conventions of genre in order to write in a variety of modes.

Formal Assessments


Laureate Research Paper

District Final Exam

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Communication Demonstrate effective

listening skills/behaviors for variety of purposes

Apply oral communication skills in interviews, presentations, impromptu situations

Use research and visual aid to deliver oral presentations that inform, persuade, or entertain.

Writing Record information and

ideas from primary/secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting validity and reliability of sources

Vocabulary Identify the meaning of

Greek and Latin words

• Moving independently through the stages of the writing process with careful attention to inquiry, drafting, revising, editing, and review. • Applying close reading strategies to a nonfiction text of literary merit.

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Addendum

Sacred Book List

Lists were compiled from:

1. Collier County Public School Current “Sacred Book” list

2. Sunshine State Young Readers’ Novels

3. Sunshine State: Florida Teen Reads

4. Reader’s Journey Novels

5. SpringBoard Suggested Novels

6. Prentice Hall Literature Suggested Novels

7. Janet Allen Suggested Novels

8. College Board Top 100 Novel List

9. Advanced Placement Recommendations: High School Teacher Syllabi College Board A.P. Literature Suggestions College Board A.P. Language Suggestions Novels from A.P. Free Response Questions

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High School Reading List

9 10 11 12* Romeo and Juliet *Things Fall Apart *Into the Wild *Pygmalian* To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Phineas Gage *Their Eyes are Watching God *Othello* Slam ~ Among the Hidden * The Crucible * Poisonwood Bible* Speak ~ Devil's Arithmetic ^ The Awakening Brave New World* Star Girl ~ Birmingham, 1963 ^ Catcher in the Rye Crime and Punishment* Monster ~ The Girls' Life Guide to Growing Up ^ Ethan Frome Cry, the Beloved Country~ The Great Fire ~ Horrible Science: Disgusting

Digestion^ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Cyrano de Bergerac

~ No More Dead Frogs ~ Oh Yikes! History's Grossest, Wackiest, Moments

^ The Scarlett Letter Death and the King's Horseman

~ The Skin I'm In ~ Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party

! Daisy Miller Death of a Salesman

~ Are We Alone?: Scientists Search for Life in Space

~ Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist

! Billy Budd Hamlet

~ Cold Light: Creatures, Discoveries, and Inventions That Glow

~ Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America

! The Great Gatsby Heart of Darkness

~ Curse of the Pharaohs: My Adventures with Mummies

Alas, Babylon ~ Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

The Importance of Being Earnest

~ The Down-to Earth Guide to Global Warming

All Quiet on the Western Front ~ Bronx Masquerade Lysisrata

~ Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at America's Story

Antigone ~ Finn: A Novel MacBeth

~ Oh Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty

Farewell to Manzanar ~ Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese Incarceration of World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference

Madame Bovary

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~ Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille

Grendel ~ From Bone Shakers to Choppers: The Rip-Roaring History of Motorcycles

Much Ado About Nothing

~ We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

The Illiad ~ Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine

~ Mick Harte Was Here Julius Caesar ~ Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America

One Hundred Years of Solitude

~ Nightjohn Kitchen God's Wife ~ Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

~ Scorpions Midsummer's Night Dream ~ Tough Boy Sonatas The Stranger~ Who Put That Hair on My Toothbrush Medea ~ Tupac Shakur (Just the Facts

BiographiesA Tale of Two Cities

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Night ~ Is and Them: A History of Intolerance in America

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Alice in Wonderland Power of One The Bluest Eye Waiting for GodotAnimal Farm River Ran Out of Eden Cannery Row Woman Warrior^ Great Expectations The Children's Story Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are deadLord of the Flies Siddartha Fahrenheit 451 Beowulf The Odyssey Glass MenagerieOf Mice and Men ^ Hiroshima Grapes of WrathOld Man and the Sea ^Gilgamesh Inherit the Wind^ A Separate Piece Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Night Thoreau Spent in JailRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ^ A Doll’s House Old Man and the Sea

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Walkabout ^ Oedipus Rex Ordinary PeopleFallen Angels Our Town

Raisin in the SunRed Badge of Courage! Beloved

KEY* Required Reading - Springboard* Supplemental - Springboard~ Janet Allen^ Advanced ! AP(No notation) Existing Supplemental Reading List

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