Curriculum Map for Academic Choice by Grade Level
9th |
Basic Concept/Skills
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State Standards
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Content/ Concept
Potential texts
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Learning Strategies
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Assessments
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Reading :
Word Analysis:
Literal vs. Figurative Denotation vs. Connotation
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Word Analysis 1.1, 1.2 |
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9th |
Vocabulary
Roots: 2 per week with vocabulary words (60 total)
Academic Power Words List
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Writer’s Handbook |
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Final Vocabulary test
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2.0 Reading Comprehension &
3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
Active Engagement with the text and use of strategies to comprehend text – Annotation & meta-cognitive process
Read & paraphrase
Use prior knowledge and context to comprehend meaning of a text
Use strategies to interpret the meaning of words, sentences, and ideas in a text.
Generate Questions on 3 levels: literal, interpretive, speculative
Close Reading Exercise; Analyze text for purpose, theme, character, style, symbolism, irony, archetypes, diction, syntax, denotation & connotation
Recognize the author’s purpose and the strategies author uses to create the passage
Understand and analyze questions and prompts
Understand what comedy is in literature and the genric conventions and dynamics of comedy |
Reading Comprehension 2.3
Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7,
3.9, 3.11
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Comedy |
1. Annotation 2. Dialectical Journals 3. SOAPSTONE 4. Tone –word sheets 5. Tone= DIS or DIDLS (diction, syntax, imagery / diction, imagery, details, language, syntax) 6. Diction; LEAD = low/informal elevated/formal abstract/concrete denotation/connotation 7. Syntax: SOS charts
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9th |
Grammar, Mechanics & Style:
Sentences · simple · compound · complex · complex-compound
Students will be able to: Sentence Combing: Combine simple sentences into more complex ones using appositives, participles, and absolutes
Identify and properly use Parts of Speech
Subject Verb Agreement: identify when subject and verbs agree and identify mistakes in agreement. Understand the difference between singular and plural pronouns and the verbs they require, including: each, none, everyone, everybody, somebody, no one, etc.
Comma Splice & Run-ons: Students will understand these errors and learn to correct them.
Clauses: Learn the difference between dependent and independent clauses, coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions, and identify and use.
Misplaced Modifiers: Students learn where modifiers should be placed.
Pronoun Agreement: Understand singular and plural pronoun. “Someone went to her house vs. Someone went to their house” Everyone needs their ID when they go to the bookroom. vs. Everyone needs his/her ID when they go to the bookroom.
Nonsequitur: Students will learn that sentences must follow each other.
Appositives: Students will learn to use appositives to add detail to sentences
Levels of Diction : formal, informal, high, low (code switching)
Syntax: Students examine syntax as it relates to clause placement in sentences. Look at emphasis.
Wordiness: Edit for conciseness
Empty Its: Understand when “it” isn't necessary or does not refer to anything “It is clear that” vs “Clearly”
Repetition: Students will learn to make points only once. (Give them paragraphs with mistake, point made several times and have them correct it)
Vagueness: Students will learn to recognize vagueness as the result of too many pronouns. (Give example paragraph with too many pronouns)
There, their, they're
Proper Manuscript form
and presentation
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1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1, 1.2 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 |
Diction – Speeches and monologues
Short pieces of writing or passages from any novel
Student's own writing
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Teach Structuralist Theory
Charting Sentences
Writer's Handbook
Identifying and Writing examples
Close Reading as a way to look at grammar
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9th |
Writing Skills:
Plagiarism Policy and Explanation
Paragraphs – organizational strategies and structure · time · order of importance · spatial · relations to one another(compare/contrast)
Types of paragraphs: · Intros · Body · Conclusions · Narration · Exposition · Definition · Description · Comparison · Process Analysis · Persuasion
Students will learn to distinguish between summarizing, paraphrasing, and analyzing.
Essay – Argumentative Essay which can be applied to a literary text or an issue
Literary Analysis – Hero's Journey – film or book
Use of Standard English in formal writing |
1.0 Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9
2.0 Writing Applications 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 |
Short passages and pieces from any novel
Hero's Journey – Star Wars and another film – freshmen book-
Editorials? |
Graphic Organizers for paragraphs and essays
Teaching writing process – focus on structure, organization and pre-writing
Need examples of
summary, paraphrase and analyze and a lesson to show this
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Paragraph assignments
Argumentative Essay
Literary Analysis Essay on Hero's Journey |
9th
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Speaking Skills:
Students speak with confidence and purpose. Communicate ideas and questions clearly, read aloud varying tone and inflection. Exhibit poise in class discussions
(2nd semester) Memorize and present a speech – inflection, pacing, demonstrate comprehension and poise.
Drama – perform (David's idea – one person acts and two others stand behind and say what they are really thinking - psychoanalysis) Speeches- description, persuasion, narrative, expository, response to literature
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1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12
2.0 Speaking Applications 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
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Speeches: Lou Gehrig Sojourner Truth ****Add Speeches and monologues and Poems*****
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Practice Pair & Shares Small Group Discussion Sentence by sentence reading Listening to the teacher read
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One Major oral Presentation per semester
Socratic Seminars
Monologues
Speeches –argumentative
Presentations
Spoken Examinations |
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Semester 1 Common Assessment Given in December before break
Grammar & Vocabulary At least one oral presentation at some point in the semester Paragraph writing Final that asks students to write 2-3 of the types of paragraphs they've learned *Common Rubric needed (Accommodation – tell IEP students which paragraphs they will write in advance)
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Semester 2 Common Assessment
Grammar & Vocabulary At least one oral presentation Editing based final that asks students to fix writing and identify problems within writing
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10th Grade
10th |
Basic Concept/Skills
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State Standards
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Content/ Concept
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Learning Strategies
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Assessments
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Reading
Word Analysis:
Diction: Colloquial Language ? Jargon Slang
Determining meaning of words from context clues
Continue working with concepts from 9th grade |
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Diction: LEAD
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Vocabulary:
Roots: Etymology roots and corresponding vocab (60 roots)
Rhetorical & literary terms
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2.0 Reading Comprehension &
3.0
Literary Response and Analysis
Reading for rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos)
Reading to identify bias and understand how it is created
Reading to understand organization and its function to the author’s purpose
Explain/analyze what the author uses to achieve a purpose
Read and synthesize content from several sources on the same topic
Scanning texts
Analyze & Critique word choice, language, and arrangement effect in achieving a purpose and developing theme or tone (Diction/syntax)
Tragedy – Understand the genric conventions and dynamics of tragedy
Satire – Understand the devices of satire and why and how they are used
Marxist and Feminist Critical Theories |
Reading Comprehension 2.1, 2.4, 2.7, 2.8
Literary Response and Analysis
3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6,
3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
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Tragedies: Othello MacBeth Oedipus Antigone
Critical Theory essays/ grade level material Marxism and Feminism
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Annotation SOAPSTONE LEAD DIDLS SOS
SMELL (sender-receiver, message, emotional Strategies, logical strategies, language)
Cornell Notes
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Annotated Notes Passage Analysis Discussions |
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Grammar, Mechanics & Style:
Sentences: Sentence review of clauses and all freshman material Sentence Combining Balanced sentence Ellipsis Juxtaposition Parallel Structure Colons, semicolons Absolutes Active vs. Passive Voice Dangling Modifiers
Verb style phrasing as opposed to noun style phrasing |
Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
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Need to develop exercises
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Need grammar assessment
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Writing Skills:
Synthesize information from more than one source identifying complexities and discrepancies in the information. Build writing around ideas that derive from research involving multiple sources
Construct carefully organized essays in order to achieve a purpose.
Learn the various patterns of essay arrangement and be able to choose the most effective arrangement for the writer’s purpose
Explore deductive vs. inductive arrangement
Essays: Compare/Contrast – literary
2nd semester – Pro/Con -issue
Construct for writing assignments: Statement of essay purpose |
1.0 Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 1.6, 1.9
2.0 Writing Applications 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 |
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Sample essays
Pieces of writing with arrangement and organization clearly broken down and labeled
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Compare/Contrast essay
Pro/Con Issue essay
Modified AP Language test questions requiring synthesis
End of Sophomore Year – Two Summer Reader Essays
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Speaking Skills:
Dramatic Performance: Perform soliloquy exhibiting understanding of a character emotion, motivation, background, etc.
Deliver Pro/Con Speech demonstrating poise, appropriate tone and inflection, engagement with audience, appropriate diction and emotion. Use rhetorical strategies in speeches.
Use verbal communication to express ideas and questions about literature, language, and class topics.
Compare and contrast famous speeches looking at Rhetorical strategies |
Listening and Speaking 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13
Speaking Applications 2.4, 2.5
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Speeches:
Soliloquy |
Socratics – to develop speaking skills
Pair Shares
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Soliloquy
Oral Examinations and Presentations
Speeches |
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Semester 1 Common Assessment
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Semester 2 Common Assessment
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11th grade
11th |
Basic Concept/Skills
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State Standards
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Content/ Concept
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Learning Strategies
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Assessments
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Reading:
Word Analysis
Use context, etymology roots, and background knowledge to determine word meaning.
Consider all facets of diction including regional dialect.
Discern meaning of analogies |
Word Analysis 1.1, 1.3 |
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Passage Comprehension Tests
AP Language Multiple Choice Questions |
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Vocabulary
SAT vocabulary words
AP Language, Rhetorical and Literary terms |
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Vocabulary Tests |
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2.0 Reading Comprehension &
Literary
Response and Analysis
Analyze the Rhetorical strategies in different types of writing (speeches, debates, newspaper articles, literature, etc.)
Analyze pattern of organization, hierarchical structure, language, syntax, diction, etc.
Critique arguments and their validity and power while analyzing for rhetorical strategies
Analyze structures of different genres and subgenres of literature (comedy, tragedy, satire, parody etc.)
CLOSE Reading of Literature for all components of a literary work and rhetorical strategies, author intent
American Literature early to modern
Analyze writing of varying difficulty from many periods
Critical Theory: All not previously covered |
Reading Comprehension 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9 |
Pivotal Texts;
Lois Tyson: Critical Theories |
SOAPSTONE |
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Grammar & Style:
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Writing Skills:
Written Skills:
Synthesizing multiple sources – Assessment - Synthesis Essay using 6 sources inductive argument construction
Argumentative Essay - Deductive argument construction
Analytical - Close Reading Passage Analysis · for Rhetorical Strategies · author intent · SOAPSTONE
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Analyze writing from different time periods and of varying difficulty
Rhetorical Strategies -
Argue in different Modes – compare/contrast, analogy, description, process analysis, definition, cause and effect, inference, literary analysis
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Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9
Writing Applications 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, ???? |
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Speaking Skills:
Give a speech in which they use several rhetorical strategies
Drama – presents exhibiting understanding of what they say and can convey / interpret the idea of the character |
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Socratic Seminars |
Oral Exams
Speeches
Analytic Presentations |
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Semester 1 Common Assessment
AP Practice Test
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Semester 2 Common Assessment
AP Test
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