Honors English II | 2013 Instructional Calendar | Second Semester
Essential Question: How does culture shape us?
Notebooks & IDEAS entries (used DAILY) – how do YOU see the world, and how does the world SEE you?
I= Inquire, Investigate
D = Detail, Describe
EOC Goals
 Weekly RAM-Test prep & practice
E = Explain, Evaluate
A = Analyze, Assess
Mock Test & Data Analysis – April 29-30
S = Summarize, Synthesis
EOC Blitz Review – May 24-30
TEST & EXAM Breakdown (4 TESTS per grading period):
 Grading Period 1: Letter Essay, Unit 1-TEST P1, Unit 1 Test P2 (Essay); Unit 2-Test 1, Unit 2-Poem & Performance, MIDTERM
EXAM-EOC PREP
 Grading Period 2: Unit 2-TEST 2 (novel study), Unit 3-Test &Writing Prompt, Spring Break Packet, FINAL EXAM-EOC
Unit 1: Freedom /Oppression (Middle East, China, Vietnam, America)
Assessment – Letter Essay, Unit 1 TEST Part1, Unit 1 TEST Part2 (Essay)
EQ: How does political and religious conflicts around us shape who we are?
“To be a Refugee” – documentary clip (youtube.com)
“Letter to a Young Refugee” – essay (p488)
“Song of Peng-ya” – poem (p494)
My Forbidden Face – memoir
“Love Crimes of Kabul” – video documentary (online)
“Yes, I Follow Islam, But I’m Not a Terrorist” – Newsweek
editorial (hard copy)
Cross Discipline Lesson (CDL): Psychology PTSD – Behavioral Stress Assessments – Oppression Perpetrators – Oppression Victims
Unit 2: Truth / Identity (India, America, China, Mexico, Africa)
Assessment – Unit 2 TEST 1, Original Poetry Out loud (poem + performance), Unit 2 TEST 2 – novel study
EQ: How does our birth place and culture affect our childhood, and therefore our adulthood?
“The Amazing World of Gumball” – honesty rap cartoon
(youtube.com)
“Tolerance” – radio broadcast essay (p482)
“Great Ideas of Western Men” – artwork (p485)
“Like the Sun” – short story (p218)
“Tell the truth, but tell it Slant” – poem (p224)
“Should mothers lie?” – pop culture article Glamour (print)
“ ‘Truth,’ said a Traveler” – poem (Stephen Crane- handout)
“The puppet” – poem (Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s farewell –
online translation)
“Detail of Dance” – artwork (p385)
Poison Wood Bible -novel
Cross Discipline Lesson (CDL): Theater Performance – Poetry as Art – Visual Poems – Word Art
Unit 3: Humanity / Evil (Europe, America, Africa)
Assessment – Unit 3 TEST & Essay
EQ: How does evil affect humanity?
“Night” (excerpt – memoir) (p940)
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Acceptance – speech (p948)
“The Holocaust: The German Perspective” – interview with
German professor (video link)
“Auscwitz Death Camp” – Elie Wiesel interview-Oprah
“Rwanda –how genocide happened” –BBC article (online)
Hotel Rwanda – film (DVD)
As We Forgive – documentary clip (youtube.com)
“I Forgive You” Tutsis Survivor Story– CBS interview
Cross Discipline Lesson (CDL): World History (WWII) – German perspective of the Holocaust
SeptFEBRUARY
August
We
ek
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
1
21
MLK Day Holiday
2
2
Teacher Workday
Introductions-Syllabus2
Class Rules-Notebook
3
& IDEAS
2
4
Letter Essay
Writing Test
2
5
Freedom/Oppression
“To Be a Refugee”
Intro to Lit Logs
2
28
Freedom/Oppression
“Letter to a Refugee”
2
9
Freedom/Oppression
“Letter to a Refugee”
3 Freedom/Oppression
0 “Song of Peng-ya”
3
1
Freedom/Oppression
“Song of Peng-ya”
1
CMS Formative
3
4
Freedom/Oppression
Koran PP – T/F
“I’m Not a Terrorist”
5
Freedom/Oppression
Koran PP – T/F
“I’m Not a Terrorist”
Freedom/Oppression
6 Intro Forbidden Face
Visual titles-PP
7
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
8
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
4
11
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
1
2
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
1 Freedom/Oppression
3 My Forbidden Face
1
4
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
1
5
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
5
18
Presidents’ Day
Holiday
1
9
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
2 Freedom/Oppression
0 My Forbidden Face
2
1
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
2
2
6
25
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
“Love Crimes Kabul”
2
6
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
“Love Crimes Kabul”
Freedom/Oppression
2
My Forbidden Face
7
“Love Crimes Kabul”
2
8
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
1
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
7
4
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
5
ACT Testing
6
Freedom/Oppression
Unit 1 Review Groups
7
Freedom/Oppression
Unit 1 Review Groups
8
Freedom/Oppression
Unit 1 Review Groups
Truth/Identity
1 Truth Intro: “Amazing
3 World Gumball”
“Should moms lie?”
1
4
Truth/Identity
“Like the Sun”– story
“Tolerance”– speech
“Great Ideas”- art
1
5
Truth/Identity
Intro: Poetry
“Tell the truth-Slant”
Groups: “The puppet”
“Truth said traveler”
Truth/Identity
2
Review Assignment &
0
Poem Performances
2
1
Truth/Identity
Poetry Out loud
Brave New Voices
Performance Plans
2
2
Truth/Identity
Midterm Review
Intro SPR BREAK pack
Truth/Identity
2
Unit2:Poems &
7
Performances due
2
8
Truth/Identity
Unit2:Poems &
Performances due
2
9
11
Freedom/Oppression
Unit 1 Review -Trivia
1
2
Freedom/Oppression
Unit1 F/O-TEST Part1
Unit1 F/O-TEST Part2
18
Truth/Identity
Review Assignment &
Poem Performances
1
9
Truth/Identity
Review Assignment &
Poem Performances
MARCH
8
9
Truth/Identity
Midterm Exam
2
6
Truth/Identity
Review Assignment
Drafts-Peer Reviews
10
25
11
1
12
8
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
9
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
1
CMS Benchmark
0
1
1
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
1
2
13
15
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
1
6
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
1 Truth & Identity
7 Catcher in the Rye
1
8
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
1
9
Mock EOC
Truth & Identity
2
Catcher in the Rye
4
Vocab 21-26
2
5
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
Chapter summaries 1626
Spring Break
2
Spring Break
APRIL
14
15
MAY
Wednesday
16
22
29
6
Mock EOC
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the RyeReview – Trivia –
Vocab
Study Guides- Monday
Humanity/Evil
“Why we remember”
Elie Wiesel back story
“Night” excerpt
Wiesel’s Nobel Prize
2
3
3
Spring Break
4
Spring Break
5
Freedom/Oppression
My Forbidden Face
Teacher Workday
Spring Break
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
RQ Chap 1-5
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the Rye
RQ Chap 6-15
(THEMES)
2
6
Truth & Identity
Catcher in the RyeReview – Trivia –
Vocab
Study Guides- Monday
3
0
Catcher in the Rye TEST
1 EOC Practice
2
EOC Practice
3
Humanity/Evil
Intro to Holocaust
Hitler’s Story
“The Holocaust: The
German Perspective”
7
Humanity/Evil
“Auscwitz Death Camp”
–Oprah, “Holocaust
Diaries”- article
Ann Frank clip
8 EOC Writing Review
9
EOC Writing Review
Peer Reviews - Grading
1
0
EOC Blitz
JUNE
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17
13
Humanity/Evil
Intro to Rwanda
BBC article & timeline
Humanity/Evil
As We Forgive &
Tutsis CBS interview
18
20
19
27
Memorial Day Holiday
2
8
Humanity/Evil
Roles in Rwanda Group
research
Humanity/Evil
Witness Project &
Presentations
EOC Test Review
Students write EOC
questions for GAME
20
3
Second Block Exams
4
Third Block Exams
1
4
2
1
1 Humanity/Evil
5 Hotel Rwanda
1
6
Humanity/Evil
Hotel Rwanda
1
7
Humanity/Evil
Hotel Rwanda
2 EOC Terminology
2 Review
2
3
EOC Terminology
Review
2
4
Human Right Project
(Unit 3 review)
EOC Test Review
2
EOC Game Show
9
3
0
3
1
First Block Exams
5 Fourth Block Exams
6
7
Exam Makeups
Teacher-Made Final
Unit3 H/E- TEST
Exam Makeups