10th Grade Literature Curriculum Map
First Nine Weeks
Reading
Focus: Literary
Extended Text ( Required)
 Ethan Frome or Lord of the
Flies
Short Fiction: ( Required)
 “On the Rainy River” (Short
story in the EMC textbook)
(Choose 2)
 “The Masque of the Red Death”
(Short story in the EMC
textbook)
 “Catch the Moon” (Short story
in the EMC textbook)
 “Monkey’s Paw”( Short story in
the EMC textbook)
 “Invictus” (poem in
supplemental material)
Second Nine Weeks
Third Nine Weeks
Reading
Focus: Literary
Reading
Focus: Informational
Extended Text
(Required *NON- NEGOTIABLE)
 Super-Size Me (Documentary),
Capitalism: A Love Story
(Documentary), or an appropriate
documentary from
http://streaming.discoveryeducatio
n.com/
Recommended:
 The High Cost of Low Price
(Documentary)
Fourth Nine Weeks
Reading
Focus: Informational
Extended Text (Required)
Extended Text: (Required)
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream  Animal Farm
or The Tragedy of Julius
Caesar*
(*If A Midsummer Night’s Dream is
chosen, you must teach Marc Antony and
Short Fiction: (Required)
Brutus’ eulogy speeches from Julius
Caesar)
 “Two Friends” (Short story in
AND

Tears of a Tiger
Short Fiction: (Required)
 “Lather and Nothing Else”
(Short Story in EMC
Short Fiction: (Choose 1)
Textbook)
 Antigone (Play in the EMC
 Excerpt from The Kite
textbook)
Runner(Short Story in EMC
 Sundiata (Epic legend in the EMC
Textbook)
textbook)
 “The Happy Man” (Short story in
Short Non-Fiction: (Required)
the EMC textbook)
(All in supplemental materials)
Inaugural Poems: (Choose 2)
 “Massachusetts Town OKs $20 Poetry: ( Choose 1)
(All in supplemental materials)
Fine for Swearing in Public”
(All in supplemental materials)
 “On the Pulse of Morning” by
(newspaper article)
 Love Poems by Maya Angelou:
Maya Angelou 20 January
 “The Consequences of Single
“Passing Time”
1993 (Read at Bill Clinton’s
Motherhood” (Supplemental
“Touched by an Angel”
inauguration.)
material)
“A Conceit”
 “Education vs.
 “The Gift Outright” by Robert
“Paint” by Wingpoem
Incarceration”(Supplemental
Frost (Poem recited at JFK’s
material)
Short Non-Fiction:
inauguration.)
Recommended: In observance of (Choose 3* NON-NEGOTIABLE)
9/11
 “The Strength of Fields” by
(All in supplemental materials)
 “About New York; For One
James L. Dickey 1923–1997
 United Nations: Universal
Read at Jimmy Carter’s
9/11 Family, Five Waves of
Declaration of Human Rights
inaugural gala.)
(historical
document)
Grief” (Supplemental material)
 Bill of Rights -US Constitution


the EMC textbook)
“The Moment before the Gun
Went Off” (Short Story in EMC
Textbook)
“The Man He Killed” (Poem in
supplemental material)
Short Nonfiction: (Required)
(All in supplemental materials)
 “Life under the Chief
Doublespeak Officer”
ELACCGPS9-10 RL2
ELACCGPS9-10 RL3
ELACCGPS 9-10RL4
ELACCGPS 9-10RL5
ELACCGPS 9-10RI6
ELACCGPS 9-10SL1
ELACCGPS 9-10SL3
(historical document)
Short Nonfiction: (Choose 3)
 “Apple's Chinese Factories to be •Proclamation 4417: Termination
Audited after Violation of Working of Executive Order 9066
Conditions” (newspaper article)
(Document in EMC textbook)
 “Worker from Foxconn, Apple's
Chinese Factory, Jumps to Death”
Online sources:
(newspaper article)
 Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her  Barack Obama’s 2004
People (biography in the EMC
Democratic Convention Speech
textbook)
 Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2004
Republican Convention Speech
 George Bush’s 2005 Inaugural
Address
 Barack Obama’s 2009
ELACCGPS
Inaugural Speech
ELACCGPS9-10 RI2
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RL1
ELACCGPS9-10 RI3
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RI7
ELACCGPS 9-10RL2
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10SL3
ELACCGPS 9-10RL3
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RI2
ELACCGPS 9-10RL4
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RI3
ELACCGPS 9-10RL5
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RI7
ELACCGPS 9-10RL6
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10SL3
ELACCGPS 9-10RL7
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RL9
ELACCGPS
ELACCGPS 9-10RL10
9-10RI1
9-10RI2
9-10.RI3
9-10RI4
9-10RI5
9-10RI6
9-10RI7
9-10RI8
9-10RI9
9-10RI10
Writing
(Focus: Argumentative)
Performance Task 1 (required)
Writing
(Focus Informational
and Explanatory)
Performance Task 2 (required)
Routine Writing (Notes,
summaries, process journals, and
short responses across all genres)
Routine Writing (Notes, summaries, Routine Writing (Notes,
process journals, and short responses summaries, process journals, and
across all genres)
short responses across all genres)
Narrative (1)
Argumentative Writing (3)
ELACCGPS 9-10W1
ELACCGPS 9-10W3
ELACCGPS 9-10W10
ELACCGPS 9-10L1
ELACCGPS 9-10L2
ELACCGPS 9-10L4
ELACCGPS 9-10W2
ELACCGPS 9-10W3
ELACCGPS 9-10W5
ELACCGPS 9-10W9
ELACCGPS 9-10L1
ELACCGPS 9-10L2
Recommended: Character
Motivation Essay
Resources
Writing
(Focus: Argumentative)
Routine Writing (Notes,
summaries, process journals, and
short responses across all genres)
Narrative (1)
Argumentative Analyses (2)
Research Connection
Writing
(Focus Informational
and Explanatory)
Performance Task 3 (required)
Research Connection
(Focus: Reading Nonfiction)
Argumentative Writing (2)
ELACCGPS 9-10W2
ELACCGPS 9-10W3
ELACCGPS 9-10W4
ELACCGPS 9-10W5
ELACCGPS 9-10W6
ELACCGPS 9-10W7
ELACCGPS 9-10W8
Research Connection
(Focus: Informational Writing)
Annotated Bibliography: Student
Students will complete a 3-5 page
chosen topic. 3-5 sources, 50-100
paper incorporating the annotated
words per citation, MLA 2009 format. bibliography
Resources
Resources
Writing Vietnam: Tim O'Brien,
Film analysis: Super-Size Me (Use the Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic
President's Lecture, 21 April 1999:
educationally enhanced DVD) or
Convention Speech:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/
another persuasive documentary can http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
WritingVietnam/obrien.html
be used in place of Super-Size Me.
speeches/convention2004/baracko
Current news programs, infomercials, bama2004dnc.htm
newspapers. Magazine
advertisements.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2004
Republican Convention Speech:
Argumentative Writing (3)
ELACCGPS 9-10W1
ELACCGPS 9-10W3
ELACCGPS 9-10W4
ELACCGPS 9-10W5
ELACCGPS 9-10W6
ELACCGPS 9-10W7
ELACCGPS 9-10W8
ELACCGPS 9-10W9
ELACCGPS 9-10W10
Research Connection
(Focus: Speaking and Listening)
Visual Presentation (Incorporating
the research process from previous
connections).
Resources
How Animal Farm parallels to the
Russian Revolution:
http://www.brighthubeducation.com
/homework-help-literature/55971animal-farm-parallels-to-russianrevolution/
Russian Revolution and Animal
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Bill of Rights -US Constitution:
speeches/convention2004/arnoldsc
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/char hwarzenegger2004rnc.htm
ters/print_friendly.html?page=bill_of_
rights_transcript_content.html&title= George W. Bush’s 2005 Inaugural
Speech:
The%20Bill%20of%20Rights%3A%2
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/68481
0A%20Transcription
12/ns/politicsgeorge_w_bush_the_second_inaug
ural/t/george-w-bush-nd-inauguraladdress/
Barack Obama’s 2009 Inaugural
Speech:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28751
183/ns/politicsinauguration/t/time-has-comereaffirm-our-enduring-spirit/
Farm Timeline Assignment:
(adapted from Harrisville Central
School Harrisville, NY)
http://www.hcsk12.org/webquest/all
egory/timeline.htm