MISD Unit Framework 2014-2015
Essential
Question
Timeframe
Unit Name
TEKS
Writing
Focus
Performance
Expectations
Suggested
Resources
What makes a true HERO?
Does FATE control our lives?
English IV
Can people live up to high IDEALS?
1st 9 Weeks
Unit 1: Epic Poetry of the Anglo-Saxon
Period (Beowulf – Epic hero) “The
Seafarer” and Expository Writing
1 (A,B,C,D,E) vocabulary
2 (A, B, C) theme and genre
3 poetry
5 (A,B, C, D) fiction
7 sensory language
12 (A, B, C, D) media literacy
Figure 19 (A, B) reading comprehension &
inference
13 (A,B,C,D,E) writing process
17A phrases & clauses
17B sentence structure
18 capitalization
19 spelling
26 teamwork
Expository writing 15 Ci-v
Writing process
Can be connected to the essential question
 Analyze and make inferences about the AngloSaxon Epic: vocabulary, theme, elements and
structure, sensory language (such as kenning,
simile, metaphor, alliteration) media literacy.
 Create expository writings including the writing
process, structure and attributes of the
expository mode, punctuation, capitalization,
and spelling.
Poetry:
Major
Other Genres
“The Seafarer” Works:
Excerpts from
Beowulf
Fiction:
Grendel
Homer, The
Excerpts from
Iliad
Grendel
Unit 2: Narrative Fiction of the Medieval Period
(The Canterbury Tales) and Expository Writing
Spiraled:
1 (A,B,C,D,E)
2 (A, B, C)
3
5 (A,B, C, D) fiction
7
12 (A, B, C, D)
Figure 19 (A, B)
13 (A,B,C,D,E)
17 (A,B)
18
19
26
New:
4 drama
Expository writing 15 Ci-v
Writing process
Can be connected to the essential question
 Analyze and make inferences about the Medieval Period
Narrative Poetry (The Canterbury Tales) including
vocabulary, theme, elements and structure (exemplum),
sensory language, media literacy.
 Create expository writings including the writing process,
structure and attributes of the expository mode,
punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Poetry:
The Canterbury Tales
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
Drama:
Murder in the Cathedral
Unit 3: Historical Fiction of the Medieval period
continued (King Arthur – Medieval hero Medieval
ballads ) and Research
Spiraled:
New:
1 (A,B,C,D,E)
15D multimedia
2 (A, B, C)
presentation
3
20 (A,B)
5 (A,B, C, D)
21 (A,B,C)
7
22 (A, B, C)
12 (A, B, C, D)
23 (A,B,C,D,E)
Figure 19 (A, B)
24A
13 (A,B,C,D,E)
25
17A
17B
18
19
26
Research 20AB, 21ABC, 22ABC, 23ABCDE, 24AB, 25
Analytical writing
 Analyze and make inferences about the Medieval Period
including vocabulary, theme, elements and structure
(medieval romance), sensory language, media literacy.
 Engage in meaningful research writing including the
writing process, structure and attributes of analysis,
punctuation, capitalization, spelling, research process and
MLA formatting and documentation.
Poetry/Fiction:
“Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight”
Medieval Ballads
“Barbara Allan”
“Get Up and Bar the Door”
Major Works:
Excerpts from Le Morte
d’Arthur
MISD Unit Framework 2014-2015
Essential
Question
Timeframe
Unit Name
TEKS
Writing Focus
Performance
Expectations
Suggested
Resources
Why is love so COMPLICATED?
English IV
Why do people seek POWER?
2nd 9 Weeks
Unit 4: Poetry and Drama of the Renaissance Period
(Shakespearean Sonnets and Renaissance poetry Hamlet) and
Analytical Writing
Spiraled:
New:
1 (A,B,C,D,E) vocabulary
14B poetic writing
2 (A, B, C) theme & genre
3 poetry
4 drama
7 sensory language
12 (A, B, C, D) media literacy
Figure 19 (A, B) reading
comprehension & inference
13 (A,B,C,D,E) writing process
17A phrases & clauses
17B sentence structure
18 capitalization
19 spelling
21 (A,B,C) research
23 (A,B,C,D,E) research
Analytical writing 15Ai-vi
Writing process
Sonnet
 Analyze and make inferences about drama including vocabulary,
theme, elements and structure, sensory language, media literacy.
 Analyze and make inferences about poetry, including vocabulary,
theme, elements and structure, sensory language, media literacy.
 Create analytical essays including the writing process, structure and
attributes of the expository mode, punctuation, capitalization, and
spelling.
 Engage in meaningful research writing including the writing process,
structure and attributes of analysis, punctuation, capitalization, spelling,
research process, and MLA formatting and documentation.
Poetry:
Major Works:
Other Genres:
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Hamlet
from Utopia
Spenser sonnets
from The Prince
Shakespearean sonnets
Unit 5: Drama of the Renaissance Period
(Hamlet – Tragic hero) and Analytical Writing
1 (A,B,C,D,E)
2 (A, B, C)
4
7
12 (A, B, C, D)
Figure 19 (A, B)
13 (A,B,C,D,E)
17A
17B
18
19
21 (A,B,C)
23 (A,B,C,D,E)
26
New:
14C script writing
Analytical writing 15Ai-vi
Writing process
 Analyze and make inferences about drama including vocabulary, theme, elements and structure,
sensory language, media literacy.
 Created analytical essays including the writing process, structure, and attributes of the expository
mode, punctuation, capitalization and spelling.
Major Works:
Hamlet
Other Genres:
from Utopia
form The Prince
MISD Unit Framework 2014-2015
Essential
Question
Timeframe
Unit Name
What is the role of DEATH in LIFE?
3rd 9 Weeks
th
Unit 6: 17 Century Literature with Focus on Informational,
Persuasive Texts, Media Literacy, and Persuasive Writing
(Metaphysical Poetry)
TEKS
Spiraled:
1 (A,B,C,D,E) vocabulary
2 (A, B, C)
3 poetry
7 sensory language
12 (A, B, C, D) media literacy
Figure 19 (A, B) reading
comprehension & inference
13 (A,B,C,D,E) writing process
17A phrases & clauses
17B sentence structure
18 capitalization
19 spelling
21 (A, B, C)
23 (A, B, C, D, E)
26
Writing Focus
Persuasive writing 16ABCDEFG
Writing Process
 Analyze and make inferences about 17th century metaphysical poetry
including vocabulary, theme, elements and structure (metaphysical conceit,
paradox), sensory language, media literacy.
 Analyze and make inferences about expository text including vocabulary,
purpose, elements (summary, main idea, details, rhetorical devices) and
structure, procedural insets, media literacy.
 Analyze and make inferences about persuasive text including vocabulary,
purpose, rhetorical devices.
 Create persuasive writings including the writing process, structure and
attributes of the persuasive mode, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Performance
Expectations
Suggested
Resources
English IV
Can SCIENCE tell us how to live?
Poetry:
John Donne: A “Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning”
Poetry:
“Holy Sonnet 10”
Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”
Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard”
New:
8 culture & history
9 (A, B, C, D) expository text
10 (A, B) persuasive text
11 (A,B) procedural documents
15Bi-v procedural writing
Major Works:
Milton, from
Paradise Lost
Other Genres:
Nonfiction
Donne, “Meditation
17”
Unit 7: 18th Century Literature with Focus on Informational, Persuasive Texts,
Media Literacy, and Persuasive Writing (Satire and Nonfiction)
Spiraled:
New:
1 (A,B,C,D,E)
15C Procedural Writing
6A
8
9 (A, B, C, D)
10 (A, B)
11 (A,B)
12 (A, B, C, D)
Figure 19 (A, B)
13 (A,B,C,D,E)
17A
17B
18
19
21 (A, B, C)
23 (A, B, C, D, E)
26
Persuasive writing 16ABCDEFG
Writing Process
 Analyze and make inferences about expository text including vocabulary, purpose, elements
(summary, main idea, details, rhetorical devices) and structure, procedural insets, media
literacy.
 Analyze and make inferences about persuasive text including vocabulary, purpose, rhetorical
devices.
 Create persuasive writings including the writing process, structure and attributes of the
persuasive mode, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling..
Poetry:
Pope, “The Rape of the
Lock”
Poetry:
Gray, “Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard”
Major Works:
Swift: Gulliver’s
Travels
Other Genres:
Nonfiction
Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Pepys, from The Diary of …
Other Genres: Nonfiction
Samuel Pepys
Addison, from The Spectator
Boswell, from The Life of Samuel Johnson
Defoe,A Journal of the Plague Year
Johnson, “A Dictionary of the English Language”
Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights
of Women
MISD Unit Framework 2014-2015
Essential
Question
Timeframe
Unit Name
TEKS
Is EMOTION stronger than REASON?
Unit 8: Literature of the Romantic Era with a Focus on
Informational, Persuasive Texts, Media Literacy, and Persuasive
Writing (Romantic Hero)
Spiraled:
New:
1 (A,B,C,D,E) vocabulary
14A story writing
3 poetry
5 (A, B, C, D)
6 literary nonfiction
8 culture & history
9 (A, B, C, D) expository text
10 (A, B) persuasive text
11 (A,B) procedural text
12 (A, B, C, D) media literacy
Figure 19 (A, B) reading
comprehension & inference
13 (A,B,C,D,E) writing process
17A phrases & clauses
17B sentence structure
18 capitalization
19 spelling
21 (A,B,C) research
23 (A,B,C,D,E) research
Writing
Focus
Persuasive writing 16ABCDEFG
Writing Process
Performance
Expectations
 Analyze and make inferences about expository text including
vocabulary, purpose, elements (summary, main idea, details,
rhetorical devices) and structure, procedural insets, media literacy.
 Analyze and make inferences about persuasive text including
vocabulary, purpose, rhetorical devices.
 Create persuasive writings including the writing process, structure
and attributes of the persuasive mode, punctuation, capitalization,
and spelling.
Suggested
Resources
Poetry:
Blake, from Songs of Innocence and
Songs of Experience
Burns, “To a Mouse” “To a Louse
Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few
Miles Above Tintern Abbey” “The World
is Too Much with Us” from Intimations
of Immortality
Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner” “Kubla Khan”
Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
Shelley, “Ozymandias” “Ode to the West
Wind” “To a Skylark”
Keats, “To Autumn” “Ode on a Grecian
Urn,” ‘Ode to a Nightingale”
Major
Works:
Shelley,
Frankenstein
Other Genres:
Nonfiction
Wordsworth,
Dorothy, from
Grasmere
Journals
from Coleridge’s
Dreamscape:
“The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner”
Keats, Letter to
Fanny Brawne
English IV
Is it better to escape or face REALITY?
4th 9 Weeks
Unit 9: Literature of the Victorian Age with a
Focus on Media Literacy, Research, Persuasive
Writing
Spiraled:
New:
1 (A,B,C,D,E)
No New TEKS
3
addressed in this unit
4
5 (A, B, C, D)
8
9 (A, B, C, D)
11 (A,B)
12 (A, B, C, D)
Figure 19 (A, B)
13 (A,B,C,D,E)
17 (A,B)
18
19
21 (A,B,C)
23 (A,B,C,D,E)
Persuasive writing 16ABCDEFG incorporating
Research techniques and media
Writing Process
 Analyze and make inferences about media literacy
and how it impacts people based on message and
purpose.
 Design a research plan centered around a worthy
research question and complete the plan with a
research project.
 Create persuasive writings including the writing
process, structure and attributes of the persuasive
mode, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Poetry:
Tennyson,
“The Lady of
Shalott,”
“Ulysses”
Browning, Robert,
“My Last Duchess”
Arnold, “Dover
Beach”
Gerard Manley
Hopkins
Housman, “To an
Athlete Dying
Young”
Major Works:
Novels:
Austen, Pride and
Prejudice
Bronte, Emily,
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Charlotte,
Jane Eyre
Drama:
Wilde, The
Importance of Being
Earnest”
Other
Genres:
Browning,
Robert,
“Letter to
Elizabeth
Barrett”
What does it mean to be MODERN?
Unit 10A: Literature of the Modern and Post Modern Era with a Focus
on Media Literacy, Research, Expository Writing ( The Anti-hero)
Spiraled:
1 (A,B,C,D,E) vocabulary
2 (A, B, C) theme & genre
3 poetry
4 drama
5 (A, B, C, D) fiction
7 sensory language
8 culture & history
9 (A, B, C, D) expository text
11 (A,B) procedural text
12 (A, B, C, D) media literacy
Figure 19 (A, B) reading comprehension & inference
13 (A,B,C,D,E) writing process
17A phrases & clauses
17B sentence structure
18A capitalization
19A spelling
20 (A, B) research
21 (A,B,C) research
22 (A, B, C)
23 (A,B,C,D,E) research
Expository writing 15 Ci-v
Research techniques and media
Writing Process
 Analyze and make inferences about the short story including vocabulary,
theme, elements and structure, sensory language, media literacy.
 Analyze and make inferences about poetry including vocabulary, theme,
elements and structure, sensory language, media literacy.
 Design a research plan centered around a worthy research question and
complete the plan with a research project.
 Create expository writings including the writing process, structure and
attributes of the expository mode
Poetry:
Yeats: “Sailing To
Byzantium” “The Second
Coming” “An Irish Airman
Foresees His Death”
T.S Eliot, “The Hollow
Men”, The Naming of
Cats”, “Preludes”
Auden, “The Unknown
Citizen” “Musee des Beaux
Arts”
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go
Gentle into That Good
Night”
Atwood, “The Moment”
Heaney, “Digging”
Major Works:
Novel:
Orwell, Nineteen
Eighty Four, ,
Animal Farm
Huxley, Brave New
World
Conrad, Heart of
Darkness
Achebe, Things
Fall Apart
Other Genres
Short stories:
Joyce: “Araby”
Lawrence: “Rocking Horse
Winner”
Mansfield: “A Cup of Tea”
Churchill, Huxley, Orwell
Drama:
Pygmalion
Essay:
Huxley: “Words and Behavior”
Orwell: “Shooting an Elephant”
Churchill: from The Speeches,
May 19, 1940