Department of Curriculum an Instructio
FBISD English III
At-a-Glance 2014 – 2015
Course Description:
In English III students continue to increase and refine their reading, writing, listening, viewing and representing communication skills. Students plan, draft, and complete written compositions on a regular basis, including narrative, literary analysis, argumentative, and personal kinds of writing.
Students also edit their papers for clarity, engaging language, and the correct use of conventions and mechanics of written English producing final and error free drafts. Major emphasis is placed on business forms of writing such as the report, the business memo, the narrative of a procedure, the summary or abstract and the resume. Students read extensively in multiple genres from American literature and other world literature. Students learn literary forms and terms associated with selections being read. Students interpret the possible influences of a historical context on a literary work.
Grading Periods Unit Name
Grading Period 1
Literature Study: Native Americans, Early Settlers, Puritans, and Revolution Writers. Literature Study: Drama – The Crucible
(CORE) with Thematic Links
Writing Workshop: Expository Text - Analytical Essay (may be the research essay)
Literature Study: Thematically Linked Readings Across Genres.
Romanticism, Transcendtalism, and Gothic Literature
Grading Period 2
Writing Workshop: Expository Text - Argumentative Essay (may be the research essay)
Grading Period 3
Literature Study: Realism – Modernism. Novel (from District
Approved List) or Literature Circles with Thematic Links
Writing Workshop: Expository Text - Interpretive Response
Essay (may be the research essay)
Literature Study: Contemporary Literature. Literature Circles with Thematic Links
Grading Period 4
Writing Workshop: Literary Text - Teachers choose two of the three: Engaging story, Poem, Script
Vertical Alignment
Textbook:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Texas Literature, Grade 11
The Write Source, Grade 11