Pacing Guide for Pruett’s English II Class
I.
First Six Weeks
A. Week One
1. Welcome and Introduction to Course
2. Daily Journals
3. Introduction to Tragedy and Oedipus Rex and reading
4. Introduction to Essay Form: Body Paragraphs
5. Spelling Test 1
6. Vocabulary Test 1
7. Grammar Mini as Needed
B. Week Two
1. Daily Journals
2. Finishing Oedipus and use tragic hero definition as
introduction to Things Fall Apart
3. Introduction to Essay Form: Introduction
4. Essay on Tragic Hero
5. Spelling Test 2
6. Vocabulary Test 2
7. Grammar Mini as Needed
C. Week Three
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading Things Fall Apart and discussing gender roles (Ch.
1-9) and reading quiz
3. Analyzing Superstitions
4. Introduction to Essay Form: Conclusions
5. Spelling Test 3
6. Vocabulary Test 3
7. Grammar Mini as Needed
D. Week Four
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading Things Fall Apart (Ch. 10-18)
3. Project Assignments: Writing Book for Children
4. Modeling Essay Writing
5. Spelling Test 4
6. Vocabulary Test 4
7. Grammar Mini as Needed
E. Week Five
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading Things Fall Apart (20-23)
3. Review Study Guide and Test for TFA
4. In-Class Essay Writing
5. Spelling Test 5
6. Vocabulary Test 5
F. Week Six
1. Daily Journals
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3.
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5.
6.
Things Fall Apart Test
Peer Edit Papers: Deconstruction
Grammar Mini as Needed
Introduction to Doll’s House: Realism and Gender Roles
Grammar Review and Sentence Structure & Sentence
Combining
7. Six Weeks Review Vocabulary Test
8. Spelling Test 6
II.
Second Six Weeks
A. Week Seven
1. Daily Journals
2. Pre-Reading Exercise to Doll House
3. Reading and Study guide for Act I & II
4. Library for Outside (SSR) Reading Assignment
5. Grammar: Punctuation
6. Spelling Test 7
7. Vocabulary Test 7
B. Week Eight
1. Daily Journals
2. Grammar: Active v. Passive Verbs
3. Reading Doll’s House Act II & III
4. Student Project : Animal Characteristics
5. Vocabulary Test 8
6. Spelling Test 8
C. Week Nine
1. Daily Journals
2. Outside Reading Project Assignment
3. Reading Quiz on Act I & II of Doll House
4. Student Project : Character Maps
5. Finish Act III and View the Play
6. Unit Test on Doll House
7. Spelling Test 9
8. Vocabulary Test 9
D. Week Ten
1. Daily Journals
2. Focus on Essays: Cause and Effect
3. In-Class Essay
4. Peer Edit and Review Essay
5. Introduction to Medea
6. Reading Medea Act I & II and Study Guide
7. Spelling Test 10
8. Vocabulary Test 10
E. Week Eleven
1. Daily Journals
2. In-Class Essay Rewrites
3. Grammar Mini as Needed
III.
4. Reading and Finishing Medea
5. Medea Trial Preparation and Action
6. Spelling Test 11
7. Vocabulary Test 11
F. Week Twelve
1. Daily Journals
2. Finish Medea Trial and Evaluation
3. Outside Reading Presentations
4. Begin Swing Kids
5. Spelling Test 12
6. Review Test for Vocabulary
Third Six Weeks
A. Week Thirteen
1. Daily Journals
2. Finish Swing Kids
3. Pre-Reading Exercise for Night
4. Student Project: Paper Bag
5. Historical Review of Pre-WWII and WWII
6. Begin Night (Chapters 1-3)
7. Reading Quiz
8. Spelling Test 13
9. Vocabulary Test 13
B. Week Fourteen
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading Night (Chapters 4-5)
3. Students Project: Survivor Poems
4. Spelling Test 14
5. Vocabulary Test 14
C. Week Fifteen
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading Quiz on Night
3. Poem: “On Wiesel’s Night”
4. Shoah Video
5. In-Class Essay/Edit/Rewrite
6. Spelling Test 15
7. Vocabulary Test 15
D. Week Sixteen
1. Daily Journals
2. Night Test
3. Reading “Harrison Bergeron”
4. Reflection on WWI and WWII: Maps
5. PowerPoint on WWI
6. Spelling Test 16
7. Vocabulary Test 16
E. Week Seventeen
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading All Quiet on the Western Front (Chapters 1-4)
3. In-Class Essay
4. Essay Focus: In-Class Edit and Revision with Writing
Conference
5. Spelling Test 16
6. Vocabulary Test 16
F. Week Eighteen
1. Daily Journals
2. Reading AQWF (Chapters 7-12)
3. Reading Quiz
4. War Poetry Selections and Student Presentations
5. Finish and Review the Semester
6. Vocabulary Review Test
7. Spelling Review Test
8. Essay Writing Review for Test in March