(A Quilt of a Country and The Immigrant Contribution) Diction Standards RI.9–10.4 W.9–10.2 W.9–10.9.b American History Judith Ortiz Cofer Short Story Narrative Structure Internal Conflict External Conflict Words that involve having a fascination with or an attraction to something: anticipated devoted enthralled elation infatuated impulse Cognates Conventions: Types of Phrases phrase Object of the Adjective phrase Adverb phrase Alternative Ending Monologue Standards RL.9–10.10 RL.9–10.3 L.9–10.4.c L.9–10.5 L.9–10.1.b W.9–10.3 W.9–10.3.e SL.4.b Performance Task: Writing Mode: Nonfiction Narrative Prompt: How does your generation define what it to be an American today? Language Development: Exposition and Dialogue Standards: W.9-10.3a-e; W.9-10.10 Small-Group Learning and Author Genre Prereading Vocabulary Skill Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Writing, Speaking and Listening, or Research Rules of the Game from The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Novel Excerpt Context Clues Complex Characters: Traits Motivations Characters Advance Deftly Relented Plotted Concessions Connotation and Denotation Participles and Participial Phrases: Speaking and Listening: Scene
Plot Characters Develop Theme Present participle Past participle Participial phrase Present a scene that further develops characters and events Standards L.9–10.4.a RL.9–10.3 RL.9-10.10 L.9–10.4.d L.9–10.5.b L.9–10.1 L.9–10.1.b SL.9–10.4.b The Writing on the Wall Camille Blog Post Context Informative Text: Central idea Develops and refines Supporting details Words related to writing or recording: memento composed inscribed Latin Root: -mem- Author’s Word Choice Alliteration Assonance Consonance Tone Research: Digital presentation Standards L.9-10.4.a RI.9-10.10 RI.9-10.2 L.9-10.4.b RL.9-10.4 W.9-10.7 SL.9-10.5 With a Little Help From My Friends from Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas Memoir Base Literary Nonfiction: Autobiographical writing Memoir Social and historical context Words that emphasize travel and communication between people from different places and cultures: proximity correspondents interpreter Latin Prefix: inter- Author’s Style: Humor Figurative language Metaphor Simile Writing to Sources: Essay Standards L.9-10.4.a RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.10 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.5.a W.2 W.2b Morning Talk Roberta Hill Immigrant Picnic Gregory Djanikian Poetry Collection Context Clues Poetic Structures: End-stopped line Run-on, or enjambed, line Stanza Words that describe ways in which people speak: Chirruped Teased Pipe Multiple Meaning Words Author’s Style: Word Choice Speaking and Listening: Discussion Standards L. 9-10.4 RL.9-10.5 RL.9-10.10 L.9-10.4 L.9-10.5.a SL.1.c SL.1.d
culpability conscience empathic entrusted remorse Standards RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.8 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.4.c L.9-10.2 L.9-10.2.a L.9-10.2.b W.9-10.2.a SL.9-10.4.a The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors Shankar Vendatam Radio Broadcast introduction expert commentator interpreter Listener Comment Oral presentation Standards L.9-10.6 SL.9-10.3 SL.9-10.4.a Performance Task: Writing Focus Mode: an argument Prompt: Should the narrator of “The Seventh Man” forgive himself for his failure to save K.? Language Development: Transitions Standards: W.9-10.1.a–e; W.9-10.4; W.9-10.5; W.9-10.10 Small-Group Learning Title and Author Genre Prereading Vocabulary Skill Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing, Speaking and Listening, or Research The Voyage of the James Caird Caroline Alexander Narrative Nonfiction Context Series of events: Narrative nonfiction Author's Perspective Primary sources Words to describe violent motion: pitched reeling upheaval Multiple Meaning Words Author's Word Choice Participles and participle phrases Standards L.9-10.4.a RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.4 L.9-10.4 L.9-10.1.b The Endurance of the James Caird in Images Gallery Media vocabulary:
Composition Perspective/Angle Lighting and Color Standards L.9-10.6 RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.7 L.9-10.6 Writing to Compare (The Voyage of James Caird and The Endurance of the James Caird in Images) Multimedia Presentation: Compare the Texts with Photographs Standards RI.9-10.7 SL.9-10.5 from Life of Pi Yann Martel Novel Excerpt Base Words Complex characters: Dynamic Static Characterization Dialogue Internal monologue Words for a hostile relationship: irresolvable predatory adversary Latin suffixes: -ory and -ary Conventions: Participial versus Absolute Phrases Argument Standards L.9-10.4 RL.9-10.3 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.1 L.9-10.1.b W.9-10.1 W.9-10.9 The Value of a Sherpa Life Grayson Schaffer Argument Context Clues Author’s Claims and Ideas: Argumentative essay Claim Words that are related to life, death, and the human body: physiology mortality reincarnation Latin root: -mort- Author’s Style: Use of Rhetoric Rhetorical devices Parallelism Rhetorical Question Charged Language Speaking and Listening: Digital Presentation Standards L.9-10.4.a RI.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.b RI.9-10.6 SL.9-10.5
I am Offering This Poem Jimmy Santiago Baca The Writer Richard Wilbur Hugging the Jukebox Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry Collection Familiar Word Parts Development of Theme: Theme Symbol Words are related by their ability to catch the light or shine: treasure iridescent luminous root -lum- Author’s Style: Figurative Language: Metaphor Simile Speaking and Listening: Oral Presentation Standards L.9-10.4 L.9-10.4.b RL.9-10.2 L.9-10.4.b RL.9-10.4 L.9-10.5 L.9-10.5.a SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.6 SL.9-10.1.b Performance Task: Speaking and Listening Focus Mode: Present an Argument Prompt: Should people in life-or-death situations be held accountable for their actions? Standards: SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5 End-of-Unit Assessment Mode: Present an argument Writing Prompt: What type of strength is most valuable in a survival situation? Speaking and Listening Outcome: Oral Presentation Standards: W.9-10.1.a–e; W.9-10.9; W.9-10.10; SL.9-10.4 9, Unit 3 Whole-Class Learning Title and Author Genre Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing to Sources Speaking and Listening I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Argument: Persuasive Speech Rhetorical devices Parallelism Words related with overcoming challenges: prosperity hallowed Patterns of Word Changes Conventions: Parallel Structure
Repetition Analogy redemptive exalted oppression tribulations Standards RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.6 RI.9-10.9 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.1 L.9-10.1.a L.9-10.2.c Letter from a Birmingham City Jail Martin Luther King Jr. Letter Persuasive Essay antithesis allusion repetition rhetorical question Words related with inaction: complacency idly stagnation languished postpone yearning Root -plac- Conventions: Clause Relative clauses Relative pronoun Standards RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.9 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.5 L.9-10.1.b Writing to Compare (I Have a Dream and Letter from a Birmingham City Jail) Essay Standards W.9-10.2 W.9-10.4 W.9-10.9.b Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Video Media vocabulary: oratory delivery gesture cadence Newspaper Report Speaking and Listening: Newscast Standards SL.9-10.3 W.9-10.2.b W.9-10.2.e SL.9-10.4 SL.9-10.4.a Performance Task: Writing Focus
Mode: Write an informative essay Prompt: How did the selections in this section affect those who first heard them or read them? Language Development: Integrate Different Types of Information Standards: W.9-10.2.a-f; W.9-10.7; W.9-10.8; W.9-10.10; Small-Group Learning Title and Author Genre Prereading Vocabulary Skill Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing, Speaking and Listening, or Research Remembering Civil Rights History: When Words Meant Everything PBS Newshour Newscast Media vocabulary: point of view primary source eyewitness secondary source Research: Report Writing: Short Essay Standards SL.9-10.2 W.9-10.7 For My People Margaret Walker Incident Natasha Trethewey Poetry Collection Context Clues Poetic Structure: Lyric Poem Poetic Forms Pantoum Free verse Words that describe people who make mistakes and are confused and frightened: trembling bewildered blundering Root -trem- Author's Style: Punctuation commas semicolons dashes Speaking and Listening: Multimedia presentation Standards L.9-10.4.a RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.a L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.2 L.9-10.2.a SL.9-10.4.b SL.9-10.5 SL.9-10.6 Lessons of MLK, Jr. Cesar Chavez Speech Context Clues Development of Ideas: Cause-and-effect relationships Words associated with political action: activist Latin root -voc- Author's Style: Cohesion and Clarity Transitions Research: Team Report
chain radical advocating Standards L.9-10.4.a RI.9-10.3 L.9-10.4.a L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.4.b W.9-10.2.c L.9-10.2.a W.9-10.7 Traveling Paley Memoir Context Clues Author’s Choices: of View and Structure Words that describe the restrictive attitude of the people and the laws of the time: absolute sheer adamant Etymology Author’s style: Punctuation Speaking and Listening: Debate Standards L.9-10.4.a L.9-10.4.d RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.2 SL.9-10.1.c Performance Task: Speaking and Listening Mode: Multimedia Presentation Prompt: Why do words and actions in some time periods produce meaningful change—and in others do not? Standards: SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5; SL.9-10.6 End-of-Unit Performance-Based Assessment Mode: Informative Writing Prompt: Explain how words have the power to provoke, calm, or inspire. Speaking and Listening Outcome: Multimedia Presentation Standards: W.9-10.2; W.9-10.2.a; W9-10.2.b; W.9-10.8; W.9-10.10; SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5; SL.9-10.6 Grade 9, Unit 4 Learning Title and Author Genre Analyze Craft and Structure Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing to Sources Speaking and Listening The Tragedy of Romeo and Drama Elements of Words associated with violation of boundaries, order, authority: Prefix trans- Author's Style: Figurative
Juliet Act I Shakespeare Dialogue Stage Directions heretics transgression mutiny Language Oxymoron Standards RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.5.a The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Act II Shakespeare Drama Poetic Structure: Blank verse Iambic pentameter Iamb Words related to secrecy: cunning counterfeit confidence Latin Prefix: counter- Dramatic Interpretation Standards RL.9-10.5 L.4.b SL.9-10.4.b SL.9-10.6 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Act III Shakespeare Drama Dramatic Speeches: Soliloquy Aside Monologue Words related to punishment or forgiveness: exile banishment pardon Latin prefix: ex- Dual Character Study: Foil Standards RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.b W.9-10.2 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Act IV Shakespeare Drama Dramatic elements Words relate to feelings of sadness: lamentable distressed melancholy root -stress- Classroom Debate Standards RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.5.a L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.5 SL.9-10.4 W.9-10.1 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Act V Shakespeare Drama Tragedy: Motives Fate Tragic Flaw Words associated with poverty: desperate meager Word Families Conventions: Parallelism Persuasive Letter Performance Review
penury misery Standards RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.5 L.9-10.1 L.9-10.1.a W.9-10.1 SL.9-10.4 RL.9-10.7 Pyramus and Thisbe Ovid Short Story Words associated with encounters with risk and secrecy: steal forbidden tryst Multiple meaning words Analytical Archetype Archetypal themes Universal theme Standards L.9-10.5 RL.9-10.9 W.9-10.2 W.9-10.9.a Performance Task: Writing Focus Mode: Write an Argument Prompt: Which has a greater impact on the characters in these texts: destiny or personal choice? Language Development: Using Quotations Standards: W.9-10.1.a-e, W.9-10.10; L.9-10.3.a; RL.9-10.1, L.2.b Small-Group Learning Title and Author Genre Prereading Vocabulary Skill Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing, Speaking and Listening, or Research and Juliet is a Terrible Play… Alyssa Rosenberg In Defense of Romeo and Juliet: It's Not Childish, It's Literary Criticism Context Clues Argumentative Text: Criticism Words that describe children or childishness: indignation intrigued credulity root: -cred- Author's Style: Organization Transitions Writing: Criticism
*About* Childishness Noah Berlatsky Standards L.9-10.4a RI.9-10.8 L.9-10.4.b W.9-10.2.c RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.8 W.9-10.1.a Twenty Years On: The Unfinished Lives of Sarajevo’s Romeo and Juliet Gordana Journalism Base Words Journalism Feature articles Media vocabulary: besieged surrounding intervened Latin prefix: Conventions: Using Phrases to Add Variety Appositive Appositive phrase Absolute phrase Standards L.9-10.4.b RI.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.4.d L.9-10.1.b Tragic Romeo and Juliet Offers Bosnia Hope Nic Robertson Newscast Video Human Interest Story: Establishing shot Reporter Stand-Ups Montage Argument Standards L.6 W.1 RI.7 Writing to Compare (Twenty On ad Tragic Romeo and Juliet) Argument: Compare of Journalism Standards RI.9–10.7 W.9–10.1 Performance Task: Speaking and Listening Focus Mode: Present an Argument Prompt: What is compelling about stories in which people face a tragic destiny? Standards: SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5
End-of-Unit Performance-Based Assessment Mode: Argument Writing Prompt: Should the opinions of others affect our own choices or destinies? Speaking and Listening Outcome: Multimedia Presentation Standards: W.9-10.1.a; W.9-10.1.b; W.9-10.9; W.9-10.10; SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5; Grade 9, Unit 5 Whole-Class Learning Title and Author Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing to Sources Speaking and Listening from the Odyssey Part 1 translated by Robert Fitzgerald Epic Poem Oral Tradition: epic epic hero in medias res flashback related to actions during war: plundered dispatched fugitives avenge ventured tactics Word Parts Conversation Standards RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 RL.9-10.6 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.5 SL.9-10.1 SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.1.b from the Odyssey Part 2 translated by Robert Fitzgerald Epic Poem Figurative Language: Simile Epic simile associated with some form of deceit: dissemble incredulity guise deceived craft bemusing Latin Root: -sim-/-sem- Author’s Style: Word Order Inverted word order Biography Debate Standards RL.9-10.6 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.1 W.9-10.4 SL.9-10.1
manipulated tremulous Standards RL.9-10.4 RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.5 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.4.d L.9-10.1 L.9-10.1.a W.9-10.3 W.9-10.3.d SL.9-10.4.b Performance Task: Writing Focus Mode: a Narrative Prompt: After the end of the world, how do we begin again? Language Development: Adverbial Clauses Standards: W.9-10.3.a–e; W.9-10.10; L.9-10.1; L.9-10.1.b; L.9-10.2.c Small-Group Learning Title Genre Prereading Vocabulary Skill Analyze Craft and Structure / Media Concept / Media Vocabulary Word Study Conventions or Author’s Style Writing, Speaking and Listening, or Research The Nuclear Tourist George Johnson Magazine Article Context Clues Literary Nonfiction Travel Journalism Subjective Account Words for mysterious things: eerily macabre specter Latin root: -spec- Author's Style: Diction scientific and technical Research Project: Chernobyl Option 1: newspaper reports Option 2: journal entries Option 3: government reports Standards L.9-10.4.a RI.9-10.1 L.9-10.4.b L.9-10.4.c L.9-10.3 L.9-10.6 W.9-10.7 W.9-10.8 W.9-10.9 the beginning of the world Lucille Clifton A Powwow at the End of the World Sherman Alexie Poetry Base Words Theme and Poetic Structure: Poetic Structure Stanza Words that can all be used to describe religion: prayerful faithless prophet Anglo-Saxon suffixes: -ful and -less Author's Style: Use of Language devices Alliteration Consonance Assonance Speaking and Listening: Oral Presentation
SL.9-10.5 Performance Task: Speaking and Listening Focus Mode: Create a Podcast Prompt: What do stories about the future say about the present? Standards: SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5; SL.9-10.6 End-of-Unit Performance-Based Assessment Mode: Narrative Writing Prompt: matters more--the present or the future? Speaking and Listening Outcome: Dramatic Reading Standards: W.9-10.3; W.9-10.10; SL.9-10.5