Unit Estimated Duration Content Standards Grading Topics Year-Long Standards Unit One: Themes Around the World 9 Weeks Reading Literature 1 Reading Literature 2 Reading Literature 9 Analyzing Themes Collected & Reported [Scored]: Constructing Writing [L3, W4, W5, W6] Collected & Reported [Unscored]: Applying Grammar and Mechanics [L1, L2] Mastering Vocabulary [RI4, L4a, L4d, L6] Collaborating in Discussions [SL1] Unit Two: The Mechanisms of Meaning 9 Weeks Reading Literature 4b and 4c Language 5a and 5b Interpreting Complex Language Reading Literature 1 Reading Literature 5 Analyzing Text Structure Unit Three: Taking Perspectives 9 Weeks Reading Literature 1 Reading Literature 6 Analyzing Point of View Collected & Reported [Scored]: Mastering Vocabulary [RI4, L4a, L4d, L6] Constructing Writing [L3, W4, W5, W6] Applying Grammar and Mechanics [L1, L2] Collaborating in Discussions [SL1] Writing 2 Writing to Explain/Inform Unit Four: Eye on the World 9 Weeks Reading Informative Text 2 Analyzing Central Idea Writing 7 Writing 8 Organizing Research Writing Research English IV teacher teams must submit a Geography and Era Audit Report (GEAR) for each semester. Fall Semester Deadline Spring Semester Deadline September 16 January 20 Course Texts English IV uses a stand-alone literature textbook. New literature and grammar/writing texts are scheduled for adoption in 2016-2017. Holt Elements of Literature: Sixth Course © 2005
Unit 2 Topic Scales, Continued CCSS: RL12.5 Grading Topic: Analyzing Text Structure 4 In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond the learning goal. 3 Students demonstrate they have the ability to: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (for example, the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as to support inferences drawn from the text, including where the text leaves matters uncertain Learning Goal 2 Students demonstrate they have developed the ability to: Recognize or recall specific vocabulary such as: structure, aesthetic, resolution Describe the structure of a text Describe the author’s structural choices in a text Describe what a text says explicitly and draw logical inferences 1 Student’s performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge. Tiered Assessment: ELA4-ATS
Topic Guidance Questions for Students... Advice for Teachers... UNIT THREE: Taking Perspective 9 weeks Organizing Principles: A unit that supports heavy informative writing, possibly in the form of literary analysis, with one additional lens for study—that of point of view and point of view-enabled devices such as irony and satire. Overview of Unit Materials Possible Texts Geographic Region and Era Page numbers refer to Holt Elements of Literature: Sixth Course © 2005 South America Western Europe Eastern Europe Asia Africa Classical/ Medieval 1200 BCE-1485 Renaissance/ Enlightenment 1485-1790 Romantic/ Victorian Modern/ Pending