English III CP Pacing Guide Revised 2015-16
Week
(days)
Power Standards and
Assessment Weeks
1 (1-5)
SLO Pretest
W 3: Writing
narratives; W 3
(Language 4-5);
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text;
W 3(f): Revising and
editing
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text;
W 2: Writing
informative/
explanatory texts
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RL 4-9: Reading
literary texts;
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text
W 2(h): Revising and
editing
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RL 4-9: Reading
literary texts;
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RL 4-9: Reading
literary texts;
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text
W 3 (Language 4-5);
W 1: Writing
arguments;
Teacher’s choice of selections:
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RL 4-9: Reading
literary texts;
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text
SLO Midtest
Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion: Civil War/Frontier (1850-1914)
(Ambrose Bierce, Steven Crane, Fredrick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E.
Lee, Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain, Jack London, Chief Joseph, Kate Chopin,
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Willa
Cather, Richard Wright, gospel songs, etc.)
Novels/ Plays: The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, etc.
2 (610)
3 (1114)
4 (1519)
5 (2024)
6 (2529)
Literature Unit/ Curriculum
(based upon Pearson Literature: The American Experience)
CP level: focus upon anchor texts. These are labeled in literature text.
HONORS level: focus upon anchor texts and extended study. These are labeled in
literature text.
Unit 1: A Gathering of Voices: Early America (Beginnings to 1800)
(Native American myths, Puritan literature, Cabeza de Vaca, William Bradford, Anne
Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Abigail
Adams, Frederick Douglass, etc.)
Novels/ Plays: The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, Slave Narratives, etc.
Unit 2: A Growing Nation: American Renaissance (1800-1870)
(Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oats,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Emily
Dickinson, Walt Whitman, etc.)
Novels/ Plays: Moby Dick, etc.
7 (3034)
8 (3539)
W 1(h): Revising and
editing;
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RL 4-9: Reading
literary texts;
RI 4-9: Reading
informational text
9 (4044)
10 (4548)
11 (4953)
12 (5457)
13 (5864)
14 (6569)
15 (7074)
16 (7581)
W 3 (Language 4-5);
I 1-5: Inquiry-based
literacy
W 2: Writing
informative/
explanatory texts
W 3 (Language 4-5);
I 1-5: Inquiry-based
literacy
W 2: Writing
informative/
explanatory texts
W 3 (Language 4-5);
I 1-5: Inquiry-based
literacy
W 2: Writing
informative/
explanatory texts
W 3 (Language 4-5);
I 1-5: Inquiry-based
literacy
W 2: Writing
informative/
explanatory texts
W 3 (Language 4-5);
C 1-5:
Communication
W 3 (Language 4-5);
C 1-5:
Communication
SLO Post-test
17 (8284)
Final Exams
18 (8590)
W 3 (Language 4-5);
RL 4-9: Reading
literary texts
*Updated 08/21/2015
Unit 4: Delusion, Defiance, and Discontent: Modern Age (1914-1945)
(Tim O’Brien, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, W.H. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Sarah Orne
Jewitt, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, James Thurber,
Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale
Hurston, etc.)
Novels/ Plays: Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Glass Menagerie, The
Awakening, etc.
Unit 5: Prosperity and Protest: Post-War Era (1945-1970)
(Arthur Miller, John Hersey, Flannery O’Connor, Bernard Malamud, Sylvia Plath,
Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Toni
Morrison, J.F. Kennedy, M.L. King, etc.)
Novels/ Plays: Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Bluest Eye, The Glass
Menagerie, The Death of a Salesman, A Raison in the Sun, Black Boy, Native Son,
etc.
Unit 6: New Voices, New Frontiers: Contemporary Period (1970-Present)
(Julia Alvarez, Alice Walker, Raymond Carver, Amy Tan, H.L. Mencken, William
Harvey, etc.)