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Unit 1: A Gathering of Voices Anchor Standards: RL 11-12.1, 2, 4
RI 11-12.1, 4, 6, 8, 9
Part 1:
Text Set:
Meeting of
Cultures
Part 2:
Puritan
Influence
Part 3:
Text Set:
A Nation is
Born
The Earth on Turtle’s Back
When Grizzlies Walked Upright
from The Navajo Origin Legend
Susan Power Introduces Museum Indians
Museum Indians
from The Iroquois Constitution (A)
from A Journey Through Texas
Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville
from Of Plymouth Plantation
Contemporary Connection: Mission Update Mars Blog
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Huswifery
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (A)
from What to the Slave is the Fourth of July (E)
Speech in the Virginia Convention
Speech in the Convention
The Declaration of Independence (A)
from The American Crisis, Number 1 (A)
“To His Excellency, General Washington”
from The Autobiography
from Poor Richard’s Almanack
Straw Into Gold, The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Letter From the President’s House
Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House
Floor Plan of the President’s House
Unit 1: Academic Vocabulary
Account
Evidence/Proof
Address
Explicit
Advocacy
Figurative
Analysis
Format
Analyze
Impact
Central Idea
Individuals
Cite
Inference Logical
Complex
Integrate
Complete
Interact
Conclusion
Interpretation
Connotative
Media
Constitutional
Medium (artistic)
Delineate
Multiple
Determine
Objective
Develop
Opinion
Dissents
Persuasive Speech
Engage (ing)
Premise
Evaluate
Purpose
Myth
Myth
Myth
Essay
Essay
Political Document
Exploration Narrative
Exploration Narrative
Narrative Account
Blog
Poem
Poem
Sermon
Speech
Speech
Speech
Political Document
Political Essay
Poem
Autobiography
Proverbs
Autobiography
Autobiography
Letter
Letter
Blueprint
730L
1060L
940L
Language
Writing
Pearson Language Study
Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and
Thesaurus (p.198)
NRMS Graduation Project:
Graduation Project Weeks 1-3
Pearson: Autobiographical Narrative
Workshop (pp. 188-195)
1510L
1400L
1270L
1440L
(L 11-12.4)
(W 11-12. 3, 11-12.5)
1210L
980L
1490L
1390L
1200L
1400L
500L
1240L
980L
1120L
Speaking and Listening
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Quantitatively
Reasoning
Rhetoric
Source(S)
Specific
Technical Meaning/Terms
Textual Evidence
Tone
Uncertainty
Version
Visually
(SL 11-12.1, 11-12.3)
Pearson: Evaluate Persuasive Speech
(p. 196-197)
(SL. 11-12.3)
(L 11-12.6)
Additional Resources
ReadWorks.org 11-12 Resources (wiki file)
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Language
Unit 2: A Growing Nation-Literature of the American Renaissance Anchor Standards: RL 11-12. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 RI 11-12. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Part 1:
Text Set:
Fireside and
Campfire
Part 2:
Text Set:
Shadows of
the
Imagination
Part 3:
Text Set: The
Human Spirit &
the Natural
World
Part 4:
Text Set:
American
Masters
The Devil and Tom Walker
“Commission of Meriwether Lewis”
Crossing the Great Divide
from “The Song of Hiawatha”
“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”
“Thanatopsis”
“Old Ironsides”
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
Where is Here?
from Moby Dick
from Nature
from Self-Reliance
Concord Hymn
from Walden (E)
from Civil Disobedience (A)
Water on Tap
South Florida Environmental Report
Short Story
Commission
Field Report
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Short Story
Short Story
Poem
Short Story
Novel Excerpt
Essay
Essay
Poem
Essay
Essay
Functional Text
Expository Text
Emily Dickinson’s Poetry (includes exemplars)
from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass (A)
Walt Whitman ‘s Poetry
Poems
Essay
Poems
Unit 2: Academic Vocabulary
Account
Analyze
Archetype
Characterization
Contribute
Convincing
Determine
Develop
Effectiveness
Elements
Engaging
Evidence/Proof
Explicit
Figurative Language
Grasp
Impact
Individualist
Inference
Influence
Interaction
1130L
1340L
1450L
Pearson Language Study
Workshop:
Etymology: Political
Science/History Terms
(p.450)
(L 11-12.1, 4, 6)
1250L
1410L
970L
960L
980L
1200L
980L
Speaking and Listening
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
(SL 11-12.1, 3)
Motivations
Persuasive
Point of View
Purpose
Relationship
Renaissance
Rhetoric
Structure
Style
Transcendental
Transition Words
Pearson: Write and Deliver a Persuasive
Speech (p.448)
(SL 11-12. 3, 6)
(W 11-12.1)
(L 11-12.6)
Additional Resources
Writing
Pearson: Write a Reflective Essay (p.440)
(W 11-12.2)
Graduation Project Weeks 4-7
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Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion-Literature of the Civil War and the Frontier Anchor Standards: RL 11-12. 3, 4, 5, 6
Part 1:
Text Set:
A Nation
Divided
Part 2:
Forging New
Frontiers
Part 3:
Text Set:
Living in a
Changing
World
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
from Mary Chestnut’s Civil War
Recollections of a Private
A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
An Episode of War
from Black Boy
from My Bondage and My Freedom
Go Down, Moses
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The Gettysburg Address
Letter to His Son
An Account of an Experience with Discrimination
“The Boy’s Ambition” from Life on the Mississippi
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
To Build a Fire
Heading West
I Will Fight No More Forever
The Story of an Hour
“Douglas”
We Wear the Mask
Luke Havergal
Richard Cory
Lucinda Matlock
Richard Bone
A Wagner Matinee
Unit 3: Academic Vocabulary
Analyze
Determine
Distinguish
Environment
Expansion
Industrialization
Irony
Limited
Naturalism
Objective
Omniscient
Overstate
Point of View
Primary Sources
Realism
Short Story
Diary
Journal
Diary
Short Story
Autobiography
Autobiography
Spiritual
Spiritual
Speech
Letter
First Person Account
Autobiography
Short Story
Memoir
Short Story
Personal History
Speech
Short Story
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Short Story
1000L
Writing
RI 11-12. 2, 4, 6
Pearson Language Study
Workshop:
Words from Mythology and
Religious Traditions (p. 678)
(L 11-12.4, 5, 6)
1090L
1110L
1490L
1110L
1130L
1060L
960L
1410L
Speaking and Listening
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Satire
Spirituals
Stream of Consciousness
(SL 11-12.1, 3)
Pearson: Oral Interpretation of a Literary
Work (p. 676)
(SL 11-12.3, 4)
(L 11-12. 2, 5)
(L 11-12 6)
Additional Resources
Pearson: Writing Workshop: Research
Paper (p. 664)
(W 11-12.2, 7)
Graduation Project Weeks 8-9
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Unit 4: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent Anchor Standards: RL 11-12. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9*
Part 1:
Text Set:
Facing
Troubled
Times
Part 2:
From Every
Corner of the
Land
Part 3:
Text Set:
The Harlem
Renaissance
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (E)”
The Imagist Poets
Winter Dreams (A)
“The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath
Migrant Mother
“Dust Bowl Blues”
“The Unknown Citizen”
“old age sticks”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“Of Modern Poetry”
“Ars Poetica”
“Poetry”
from A White Heron (E)
In Another Country (A)
Ambush
A Rose for Emily
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
A Worn Path
The Night the Ghost Got In
“Chicago”
“Grass”
Robert Frost’s Poetry
Trapped in a Comic Book
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
“I, Too”
“Dream Variations”
“Refugee in America”
‘study the masters”
“For My Children”
“The Tropics in New York”
“A Black Man Talks of Reaping”
“From the Dark Tower”
from Dust Tracks on a Road (A)
Unit 4: Academic Vocabulary
Aesthetic
Analyze
Comedic
Delineate
Documents
Elements
Fallacious
Figurative Language
Foundational Work
Imaginative Work
Impact Paraphrase
Motivation
Primary Sources
Secondary Resources
Structure
Summarize
Poem
Poems
Short Story
Novel Excerpt
Photographs
Ballad
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Speech
Short Story
Short Story
Humorous Essay
Poem
Poem
Poems
Graphic Story
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Autobiography
Intervention Resources
Language
Writing
Pearson Language Study
Workshop:
Etymology: Scientific,
Medical, and Mathematical
Terms (p. 954)
Pearson: Writing Workshop: Multimedia
Presentation of an Argument (p. 944)
(W 11-12. 1, 6, 8)
RI 11-12. 1, 4, 7
1090L
1230L
Graduation Project Weeks 10-12
(L 11-12.4, 6)
*(W 11-12.9)
1020L
1140L
1170L
780L
740L
740L
920L
Speaking and Listening
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Synthesize
Textual Evidence
Pearson: Analyze a Non-print Political Ad
(p. 952)
(SL 11-12.1)
(L 11-12.6)
Additional Resources
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Unit 5: Prosperity and Protest Anchor Standards: RL 11-12. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 RI 11-12.1, 4, 7
Part 1:
Text Set:
War Shock
Part 2:
Text Set:
Tradition and
Rebellion
Part 3:
Text Set:
Literature of
Protest
from Hiroshima
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Junk Rally
The Battle of the Easy Chair
Backing the Attack
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The First Seven Years
Constantly Risking Absurdity
“Mirror” (A)
“Courage” (A)
“Cuttings”
“Cuttings (later)”
“The Explorer”
“Frederick Douglas
“One Art”
“Filling Station”
The Rockpile
Life in His Language
Inaugural Address (A)
from “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (A)
The Crucible, Act I
The Crucible, Act II
The Crucible, Act III
The Crucible, Act IV
from Good Night, and Good Luck
Unit 5: Academic Vocabulary
Account
Aesthetic
Archetype
Cite
Comic
Complex
Conclusion
Connotative
Deconstruct
Determine
Engaging
Figurative
Impact
Interact
Multiple Meaning
Resolution
Structure
Nonfiction
Poem
Poster
Editorial Cartoon
Editorial
Short Story
Short Story
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Short Story
Eulogy
Speech
Letter
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Screenplay
Intervention Resources
1230L
Language
Writing
Pearson Language Study
Workshop:
Idioms and Idiomatic
Expressions (p.1266)
Pearson: Writing Workshop: Argumentative
Essay (p.1256)
(W 11-12.1, 7)
Graduation Project Weeks 13-15
990L
1170L
(L 11-12.4,5)
820L
1200L
1410L
1330L
Speaking and Listening
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Text
Theme
Tone
Tragic
(SL 11-12.1, 3)
Pearson: Analyze and Evaluate
Entertainment Media (p.1264)
(SL 11-12.2)
(L 11-12.1)
(L 11-12.6)
Additional Resources
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Unit 6: New Voices, New Frontiers Anchor Standards: RL 11-12.1, 3, 4, 5
Part 1:
Text Set:
Contemporary
Fiction
Part 2:
Text Set:
Contemporary
Poetry
Part 3:
Text Set:
Contemporary
Nonfiction
Antojos
Everyday Use (A)
Everything Stuck to Him
“Traveling Through the Dark”
“The Secret”
“The Gift”
“Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper”
“Camouflaging the Chimera” (A)
“Streets”
“Hailey’s Comet”
“The Latin Dell: An Ars Poetica” (E)
“American Slang” from The American Language (E)
Onomatopoeia
Coyote v. Acme
One Day, Now Broken in Two (A)
Urban Renewal
Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth
Mother Tongue (E)
For the Love of Books
from The Woman Warrior
from The Names
Demographic Aspects of Surnames
The Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation
Unit 6: Academic Vocabulary
Analysis
Analyze
Cite
Complex
Conclusion
Develop
Determine
Effectiveness
Elements
Evaluate
Evidence/Proof
Explicit
Inference
Interactions
Logical
Motivations
Ordered
Relate
Structure
Supportive
Lexile
Intervention Resources
RI 11-12. 1, 3, 4, 5
Short Story
980L
Short Story
980L
Short Story
460L
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Standards
Writing
Pearson Language Study
Workshop:
Cognates (p.1458)
Pearson: Writing Workshop: Short Story
(p. 1448)
(W 11-12.3)
Graduation Project Week 16
(L11-12.4, 5)
Essay
Essay
Essay
Essay
Oral History Transcript
E-mail
Essay
Essay
Memoir
Memoir
Expository Text
Expository Text
1320L
1520L
1060L
1160L
1080L
800L
1040L
Speaking and Listening
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
(SL 11-12.1, 3)
Supporting Details
Textual Evidence
Thorough
Tone
Transition Words
Pearson: Compare Print News
Coverage (p. 1456)
(SL 11-12.1, 2)
(RI 11-12.7)
(L 11-12 6)
Additional Resources
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