Unit 1 – Personal Journey (4-5 wks) RL 1 – Inferences/evidence RL 2 – Central ideas/themes/summary RI 1 – Inferences/evidence RI 2 – Central ideas/themes/summary W3 – Write Narrative W4 – Coherent Writing (Paragraph Structure) W5 – Plan, Revise, Edit Unit 2 – The Art of Persuasion (4-5 wks) (4 wks) RL 6 - Point of view/ Purpose RL 8 – Arguments/ Evidence RI 4 – Vocabulary/ Word Choice RI 5 – Text Structure/ Organization RI 8 – Arguments/ Evidence W1 - Write arguments W4 - writing (Essay) SL 3 – Point of View L 3 – Style/ Effective Language Choices Unit 3 – Humanity vs. Inhumanity Texts RL 1 – Inferences/evidence RL 2 – Central ideas/themes/summary RL 3 – Individuals/events/ideas RL 4 – Vocabulary/word choice RI 1 – Inferences/evidence RI 2 – Central ideas/themes/summary RI 3 – Individuals/events/ideas RI 4 – Vocabulary/word choice Unit 4 – Toward a Better World, A Research Unit (4-5 wks) RL 4 – Vocabulary/ Word Choice RL 7 – Content in Diverse Media RI 6 – Point of View/ Purpose RI 9 – Comparison of and Authors W7 – Conduct research W8 – Gather/synthesize information SL 2 – Content in Diverse Media SL 4 – Present Findings Key to Common Core Strand Abbreviations RL – Reading Literature RI - Reading Informational Text W – Writing L – Language SL – Speaking and Listening English II Curriculum Guide Foundation Standards Foundation Standards are designated Common Core State Standards to be taught continually, throughout the semester, in all units of study.
Suggested Anchor Texts: contains lessons these and other texts. One of the following: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane Life of Pi, by Yann Martel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (could possibly fit under Inhumanity vs Humanity) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Companion Texts Literature: Ex: Poetry Short Story, Excerpt “I Dwell in Possibility” Emily Dickinson “Blessing the Boats” Lucille Clifton “Variation on a Theme” Rilke “Who Makes the Journey” Cathy Song (HM Text) “I am Not the One Who Left the Land” Anna Akhanatova Epic of Gilgamseh, excerpts “The Teacher Who Changed My Life” Nicholas Cage “Breaking Down Barriers” Adam Piore “Getting From There to Here” Farewell to Manzanar, excerpt, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Text Annotation Guided Reading Active Reading Quizzes Class discussion Exit slips Informal writing/Journal writing Narrative writing Companion Informational: Ex: U.S.Documents Speeches News Articles Infographics Political Cartoon Autobiography “Doing Nothing is Something” by Anna Quindlen (HM Textbook) “On Nuclear Disarmament” by Carl Sagan (HM Textbook) “The Question of South Africa” by Desmond Tutu (HM Textbook) Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Guided Reading Active Reading discussion Informal writing/Journal writing Personal Narrative writing Group presentations
Journal Companion Media: Ex: Art/Painting Music Images Advertisements Clips Voice Thread Exemplars The Princess Bride Hotel Rwanda (Could also fit under inhumanity vs humanity) “The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Painting) “Les Memoirs du Temps” by Andre Martins De Barros Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: discussion Journal writing Double-column notes Writing: Narrative of a personal journey (either their own or a family member’s) Paragraph Development Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Thinking Maps Outlining Edit and revision Condense a grade level story of a personal journey down into a children’s book version. Speaking/Listening: Story telling Potentially go to middle/elementary school to tell the children’s story they have written (or invite those students to the high school or use the daycare if there is one on the high school’s campus) Language/ Academic Vocabulary: Topic Sentence, evidence, analysis, conclusion statement, narrative, inference, theme, coherent, text structure terminology (Informational, argumentative etc.), Terms from applicable Common Core Standards. Technology/ VoiceThread of a Narrative Use some form of digital media like flipsnack, prezi, storybird, discovery boards, etc to tell their personal journey or to relate a journey they have read about. Teachers, please contribute to this section as you engage your students in the use of technology and multi-media tools.
BCS ELA CCSS Unit 2: The Art of Persuasion Grade Level: English II Time Span: 4-5 weeks Unit Overview: How can we convince others that we are right? Students will explore the use of rhetoric in literature and rhetoric so that they will be able to develop their own persuasive arguments. CCSS Grade Specific Standards: emphasized/ assessed in this unit of study RL 6 - Point of view/ Purpose RL 8 – Arguments/ Evidence RI 4 – Vocabulary/ Word Choice RI 5 – Text Structure/ Organization RI 8 – Arguments/ Evidence W1 - Write arguments W4 - Clear/coherent writing (Essay) Anchor Text: contains lessons using these and other texts. Julius Caesar Cyrano de Bergerac A Doll’s House Les Miserables Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Dramatic Readings Historical Review Debate Companion Literature: Antigone or Oedipus, Sophocles “A Piece of String” Guy de Maupassant “A Problem” Anton Chekhov Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Quizzes Class discussion
Ex: Poetry Story, Novel Excerpt “Seize the Day” Horace “Tell all the but tell it slant” Emily Dickinson The Analects Confucius Excerpts from Cyrano de Bergerac Study guide Exit slip Informal writing/journal writing Text annotation Guided reading notes Active reading Companion Texts Informational: U.S. Documents Speeches News Articles Infographics Political Cartoon Autobiography Journal Excerpt from “I am an American Day Address” by Learned Hand (US seminal document, CCSS text exemplar) “A Eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King, JR.” --RFK Request for a Declaration of War (1941)--FDR “Professions for Women” Virginia Woolf “The of South Africa: C.S. King Gallagher’s Articles of the week Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Quizzes discussion Study guide Exit slip Informal writing/journal writing Text annotation Guided reading notes Active reading Debates Companion Texts Media: Ex: Art/Painting Music Images Advertisements Video/Audio Clips Assorted contemporary songs “Imagine” by John Lennon “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw Website with multiple links to songs, rationale and explanations and other good stuff Political Cartoons Pull advertisements from magazines Read, Write, Think video to introduce persuasive techniques (5 minutes) Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Create a Political Cartoon Create a song Gallery walk (Put up advertisements and have studetns identify the persuasive technique(s) used.)
Ad Council commercials aimed at raising awareness and creating a better world. Slideshare powerpoint contains video clip Writing: Persuasive Speech rhetorical devices ( topics might include issues with dress code/uniforms, file sharing, cafeteria issues, cell phones in schools, birth control permission, etc.) Speaking/Listening: Classroom discussions Perform scenes from selected drama Presentation of speeches Language/ Academic Vocabulary: Thesis, Body Paragraph, Point of View, Argumentative Writing, Point of View, Perspective, Style, Rhetoric, Dramatic Terms (Prologue, dramatic irony etc), Terms from applicable Common Core Standards, Technology/ Use Web 2.0 tools to create political cartoon Powerpoint or Prezi Teachers, please contribute to this section as you engage your students in the use of technology and multi-media tools. BCS ELA CCSS Unit 3: Humanity vs. Inhumanity Grade Level: English II Time Span: 4 weeks Unit Overview: In this unit, students will study, through the timeless lenses of humanity and inhumanity, the horrors of war and its consequences for our world. CCSS Grade Specific Standards: RL3 – Individuals/ Events/ Ideas RL 9 – Comparison of texts and authors RI 3 – Individuals/ Events/ RI 7 Content in Diverse Media
emphasized/assessed in this unit of W2 – Write to Inform W9 – to sources (Draw Evidence) SL 5- Use Media L5 – Figurative Language Suggested Anchor Texts: contains lessons using these and other texts. Night I Have a Thousand Years Iraqi Girl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Things Fall Apart Companion Texts Literature: Ex: Poetry Short Story, Novel Excerpt “The Hangman” Maurice “The Kaddish” Maus by Art Spiegelman Assorted Holocaust poetry The Book Thief “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” Tolstoy (HM Textbook) “Civil Peace” Achebe “Embroidery” Bradbury “War” Piendello “The Wrong Lunch Line” “On Wiesel’s Night” by Thomas E. Thorton Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Quizzes Class discussion Study guide Exit slip Informal writing/journal writing Text annotation Guided reading notes Active reading Poetry Project “On Wiesel’s Night” Unit Plan which includes Night and other resources Companion Texts Informational: Ex: U.S.Documents Speeches News Articles Infographics Political Cartoon Autobiography Journal Nazis Burning Books in Germany (1935) (Holt McDougall Nonfiction Connections) “The Perils of Indifference” Elie Wiesel from “Affidavit Given at Nuremburg” 1946 Rudolf Hess “Tolerance” Forester Holocaust research articles From Sonya Tolstoy’s Diary Activity/Strategy/Formative Assessment: Double Bubble Thinking Maps Quizzes Class discussion Study guide Exit slip Informal writing/journal writing Text annotation Guided reading notes Active reading