Grade 12Curriculum Map Unit 1 Pacing and Planning Guide Dates SpringBoard Activities and Assessment Opportunities Differentiation for Student Needs District Expectations and Opportunities for Additional Instruction Adjust this column to add dates and/or instructional weeks based on the district calendar. Adjust the Unit Activities and Embedded Assessments to correspond with the designated dates of instruction. Add modification plans to extend learning or strengthen support based on identified student needs. Add specific district expectations here (e.g., benchmark assessments, required reading/writing tasks, cross-curricular projects or strategies, etc.) You might consider including SpringBoard Writing Workshops, Close Reading Workshops, or Literature Circles. Allow 1-2 weeks for each one added. Note that adding additional instruction is likely to require strategic decisions about specific activities or units to compress or omit. 5 periods Writing Workshop, Student Orientation, etc. 3 periods 1.1: Previewing the Unit – Unpack Embedded Assessment 1 1.2: Perception is Everything – Writing Prompt 1.3: Importance of Perspective – Graphic Organizer, Check Your Understanding Pre-teach—Springboard Scavenger Hunt **1.1 Learning Goal Chart for writing down daily Learning Targets **1.2 Establish Group Norms **1.3 Requiem for a Dream—YouTube monologue for Check Your Understanding 2 periods 1.4: Introducing Reader Response Criticism – Check Your Understanding 1.5: Applying Reader Response Criticism - Graphic Organizer, Writing Prompt **Pre 1.4—The Power of First Impressions YouTube video (CC) 2 periods 1.6: Different Ways of Seeing the World – OPTIC, Writing Prompt 1.7: The Visual Argument- Writing Prompt
Note that adding additional instruction is likely to require strategic decisions about specific activities or units to compress or omit. 1 period 3.1: Previewing the Unit - Unpack Embedded Assessment 1 3.2: Creating Acting Companies - Agreement **As you read Othello, use a graphic organizer to cite evidence of the three critical perspectives in the play. 0 periods or 2 if you choose to keep these activities 3.3: Cultural Criticism – Graphic Organizer, Check Your Understanding 3.4: Language and Writer’s Craft: Meter - Poem 1 period 3.5: Building a Plot and Bringing it to Life: Irony – Check Your Understanding 3.6: Viewing a Cast of Characters Through a Marxist Lens- Check Your Understanding 1 period 3.7: A Father’s Reaction: Performing and Defending an Interpretation – Check for Understanding 3.8: “The Moor”: Character Analysis Through a Cultural Lens - Character Sketch 0 periods or 1 period 3.9: A Husband’s Response: Defending a Critical Perspective - SOAPSTone, Graphic Organizer, Writing Prompt 2 periods 3.10: A Historical Look at the Moor – Check Your Understanding 3.11: Friendly Banter or Pointed Comments? Feminist Criticism -Graphic Organizer, Quickwrite 0 periods or 4 periods if you choose to keep these activities 3.12: Honest Iago: The Dramatic Speech - Speech Performance 3.13: Emilia’s Secret: Defending an Interpretation – Graphic Organizers, Writing Prompt 3.14: Demystifying Emilia: Questioning Through a Critical Lens - Graphic Organizers, Writing Prompt, Outline 0 periods or 1 period 3.15: Staging Iago’s Lies: Blocking for Effect - Graphic Organizers, Check Your Understanding
Grade 12 Curriculum Map Unit 4 Pacing and Planning Guide Dates SpringBoard Activities and Assessment Opportunities Differentiation for Student Needs District Expectations and Opportunities for Additional Instruction Adjust this column to add dates and/or Adjust the Unit Activities and Embedded Assessments to correspond with the designated dates of instruction. Add modification plans to extend learning or strengthen support based on identified student needs. Add specific district expectations here (e.g., benchmark assessments, required reading/writing tasks, cross-curricular projects or strategies, etc.)
instructional weeks based on the district calendar. You might consider including SpringBoard Writing Workshops, Close Reading Workshops, or Literature Circles. Allow 1-2 weeks for each one added. Note that adding additional instruction is likely to require strategic decisions about specific activities or units to compress or omit. 5 periods 4.1: Previewing the Unit - Unpack Embedded Assessment 1 4.2: Reality TV (and Other Media) – Thesis, Graphic Organizer, Writing Prompt 4.3: Constructing Public Opinion – Graphic Organizer 4.4: Bias in News Reports - Graphic Organizers, Writing Prompt **For the sake of time, annotated bibliography lesson may be adapted using individual bucket lists. (Ask Lisa Taylor) 4.1 Modify EA1 to annotated bibliography for bucket lists. 8 periods 4.5: Framing the Investigation – Writing Prompt 4.6: Directing the Investigation – Writing Prompt, Graphic Organizer 4.7: Throwing Light on the Situation - Writing Prompt, Graphic Organizer **4.7 #8 and 9 have students produce on paper in groups including an annotated bibliography for the group’s specified article. Groups will then read aloud annotated bibliographies. Omit work on page 284. 3 periods 4.8: Looking for Trouble – Graphic Organizer, Writing Prompts 4.9: Evaluating Sources - Graphic Organizer, Writing Prompt **End of 4.9 if students have not previously produced a personal bucket list, have them complete one. 2 periods Embedded Assessment 1: Examining How an Issue is Presented in Media Texts **EA1: Students produce an annotated bibliography for an entry from their bucket lists. Suggested number of entries: 3-5. 0 periods or 2 periods if you choose to keep these activities 4.10: Previewing Embedded Assessment 2 - Unpack Embedded Assessment 2 4.11: Considering the Medium - Graphic Organizer, Writing Prompt 0 periods or 3 periods 4.12: That Sounds Just Right – Writing Prompt 4.13: Turning Facts into Narrative – Thesis Statement, Graphic Organizer 0 periods or 1 period 4.14: Voir Dire: Facing a Jury of Your Peers - Graphic Organizers, Check Your Understanding
2 periods 5.15: Exploring Critical Perspectives – Graphic Organizer 5.16: Assessing Perspectives – Check your Understanding 5.17: Language and Writer’s Craft: Parataxis - Check Your Understanding 2 periods Embedded Assessment 1: Presenting a Literary Work Through Multiple Critical Perspectives **Focusing on a specific critical perspective, students will create their own graphic novels based off of their literary circle texts.