Alignment/Pacing/Mapping Instructional Guide
Grade Level: 11th
Time Period
One
Semester
COS
#
AHSGE
All
Semester
Subject: English
Standards/Components
Alternate Grammar/Writing
and Literature Weekly.
Continue switching every week
for six weeks. There are three
six week grading periods per
semester and six grading
periods for the school year.
In preparation for testing all
students need to review for the
English or Reading portion of
AHSGE as well as the ACT.
Persuasive, Narrative, and
Expository Essays should be
taught throughout the year.
1st
11.1
I-1
11.1.a. Analyze authors’ use of
(R)-Reader’s Choice
(W)-Writer’s Choice
(SS)-Short Story
(S) Speech
(P) Poem
School System: Walker County
Resources/Activities
1. Writer’s Choice: Grammar and
Composition
2. Literature: The Reader’s
Choice, American Literature
1900-Present
3. Grammar and Compostition
Workbook
4. Selection Quick Checks
(Quizzes for literature
selections)
5. Literature Elements
Transparencies (LET)
6. Units 4-7 Resource Books
7. Selection and Unit
Assessments (Tests for
Literature Selections)
8. Bellringer Options
Transparencies (BRT)
9. Grammar and Writing
Workshop Transparencies
(GWT)
10. Teacher Tech Tools Software
Resources (CDs and DVDs)
11. Passing the Graduation Exam
in Reading and Language.
12. ACT Resources
13. Vocabulary Development
14. Outside Novels from Novel
List, Yalsa List.
Regionalism and Realism p. 464-478.
Date of
Assessme
nt
Mapping
Comments
1st nine
weeks
Literature
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
11.7
11.8
11.10
I-2
II-1
II-2
II-3
III-2
III-3
IV-1
IV-3
IV-4
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in American short
stories predominantly from
1900-present.
11.1.c. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in poetry
predominantly from 1900present.
11.1.d. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in essays or other
non-fiction literature
predominantly from 1900present..
11.2.B.4.-S Analyzing poetry for
rhythm and rhyme schemes
11.3. Read with comprehension
a variety of informational and
functional reading materials.
11.3.B.2. -S Drawing
conclusions to determine author
intent
11.4.a. Analyze twentieth and
twenty-first century American
literary selections for plot
structure.
11.5.b. Evaluate twentieth and
twenty-first century American
authors’ use of diction, and
Standard English versus dialect.
11.7 Compare writing styles of
(R) Part 1
Regionalism and Local Color p.479527.
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County” p.484. (SS)
“Two Views of the River”p.490 (M)
“Time: Life Along the Mississippi”
p. 494
“Lucinda Matlock” p. 499 (P)
“Fiddler Jones” p. 502 (P)
(R) “The Outcasts of Poker Flats” p.
504 (SS)
Grammar Workshop-appositives p.
517
“A Wagner Matinee” p. 518 (SS)
“I Will Fight No More Forever” p.527
(S)
Part 2-Realism and Naturalism p. 531632
“April Showers” p. 534 (SS)
Vocabulary Lesson
“The Story of an Hour” p. 546 (SS)
“The Darling” p. 552 (SS)
“Richness” p.560 (P)
“Douglass” p. 562 (P)
“We Wear the Mask” p. 565(P)
“Richard Cory” p. 567(P)
“Miniver Cheevy” p. 570 (P)
“The Open Boat” p. 572 (SS)
“To Build a Fire” p. 593 (SS)
From Artic Dreams:Imagination and
Desire in a Northern Landscape
p.608. (Excerpt)
Writing Workshop: Analyzing a Short
Story
two or more American authors
or public figures.
11.8.B.1 -S Using a variety of
sentence patterns
11.10.B.1. -S Editing writings
for mechanics, usage, grammar,
and style
11.10
I-1
III-2
III-3
IV-1
IV-3
IV-4
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects
11.10
II-1
11.10. Edit writings including
student papers.
11.10.a. Edit writings including
student papers for correct
parallel form in clauses in a
series and with correlative
conjunctions.
11.10.b. Edit writings including
Grammar
Writing
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Unit 10 Parts of Speech Pg. 396
10.1 Nouns Pgs. 397-403
Types of Nouns: common, proper,
concrete, abstract, compound and
collective
Grammar Review Pg. 442
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Unit 10 Parts of Speech Pg. 396
10.4 Adjectives Pgs. 418-423
*Possessive Nouns and Pronouns as
Adjectives
*Articles
*Proper Adjectives
*Adjectives that compare
10.5 Adverbs Pgs. 424-429
*Position of Adverbs
*Adverbs that compare
*Negative words as Adverbs
Unit 11 Parts of a sentence pgs. 450473
Unit 3 Descriptive Writing
3.1-3.6 pgs. 122-142
student papers for correct use of
subject-verb agreement with
subjects with intervening
phrases.
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects.
11.10.d. Edit writings including
student papers for indefinite
pronouns as subjects when the
verb form depends on the rest of
the sentence.
11.10.e. Edit writings including
student papers for subjects in
sentences with correlative
conjunctions or in inverted
order.
1st nine
weeks
Literature
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.5
11.6
I-3
II-5
II-3
III-2
11.1.c. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in poetry
predominantly from 1900present..
11.2.B.1.-S Explaining use of
allusions.
11.2.B.4.-S Analyzing poetry for
rhythm and rhyme schemes.
11.3. Read with comprehension
a variety of informational and
functional reading materials.
11.3.B.3. -S Applying advanced
knowledge of context clues and
structural analysis to determine
word meaning
11.5. Evaluate twentieth and
twenty-first century American
authors’ use of language.
Beginnings of the Modern Age 19101930s p. 634-648
Unit 5 Introduction p. 636-647
Part 1Modern Poetry p. 649-686
Unit 5 Part 1 Imagist and Symbolist
Poetry p. 650-651
“Haiku” p. 650
“In a Station of the Metro” and “A
Pact” p. 652-655
“The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock” p. 656-655
“The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is
Just to Say” p. 671
“Summer Rain” and “Fireworks” p.
672-676 Modern Poetry p. 689-725
“The Man with the Blue Guitar” p.
689-693
“somewhere I have never traveled,
gladly beyond” and “anyone lived in
a pretty how town” p. 694-698.
“Chicago” and “Grass” p. 699-703
11.6.b. Determine word meaning
in twentieth and twenty-first
century American literature
using context clues.
Grammar
10.1
I-4
I-6
11.10.B.1. -S Editing writings
for mechanics, usage, grammar,
and style
“Mending Wall,” “Birches,”
“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy
Evening,” “Acquainted with the
Night,” “The Death of a Hired Man,”
p.704-724.
Political Perspective on Robert Frost,
“Remarks at Amherst College” p.
725-728.
Part 2 Modern Fiction p. 729-774
Unit 5 Part 2
The Modern Short Story p. 730-731
Hemingway p.732-740
Grammar Workshop p. 741
Modern Fiction 729-774
Fitzgerald p. 742-761
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” p.
744-784
Part 3 The Harlem Renaissance p.
785-830.
“My City” p. 786-789
Time Magazine “Stanzas from a
Black
Epic p. 805-808.
“I, too,” “The Negro was in Vogue” p.
809-821
“Your World” pl 822-825
“A Black Man talks of Reaping” p.
826-829.
From Dust Tracks on a Road p. 790798
Vocab Workshop Word Meanings p.
799
“If We Must Die” and “The Tropics in
New York” p. 800-804
Unit 10 Parts of Speech Pg. 396
10.4 Adjectives Pgs. 418-423
*Possessive Nouns and Pronouns as
Adjectives
*Articles
*Proper Adjectives
*Adjectives that compare
10.5 Adverbs Pgs. 424-429
*Position of Adverbs
*Adverbs that compare
*Negative words as Adverbs
Writing
1st nine
weeks
11.10
II-1
V-1
11.10.a. Edit writings including
student papers for correct
parallel form in clauses in a
series and with correlative
conjunctions.
11.10.b. Edit writings including
student papers for correct use of
subject-verb agreement with
subjects with intervening
phrases.
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects.
11.10.d. Edit writings including
student papers for indefinite
pronouns as subjects when the
verb form depends on the rest of
the sentence.
11.10.e. Edit writings including
student papers for subjects in
sentences with correlative
conjunctions or in inverted
order.
Unit 3 Descriptive Writing
3.1-3.6 pgs. 122-142
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
11.6
I-1
I-2
II-1
II-2
II-3
III-2
11.1. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements predominantly
from 1900-present.
11.1.a. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
Literature of the Time p. 844-845
Test Prep and Practice p.846-851
From Depression to Cold War 1930s1960s p. 852-866
Part 1The New Regionalism and the
City p. 867-957
11.7
11.8
11.10
III-3
IV-1
IV-3
IV-4
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in American short
stories predominantly from
1900-present.
11.1.B.1. -S. Identifying major
historical developments of
language and literature in
America from 1900-Present.
11.2.B.3.-S Interpreting irony.
11.2. Analyze use of figurative
language and literary devices to
enhance specific literary
passages. 11.1.B.2. -S
Evaluating author technique
11.2. Analyze use of figurative
language and literary devices to
enhance specific literary pas
sages.
11.2.a. Analyze use of figurative
language and literary devices
including hyperbole to enhance
specific literary passages.
11.2.b. Analyze use of figurative
language and literary devices
including simile and metaphor to
enhance specific literary
passages.
11.2.B.2.-S Analyzing use of
analogies for meaning.
11.2.B.3.-S Interpreting irony.
11.2.c. Analyze use of figurative
language and literary devices
including personification and
other imagery to enhance
specific literary passages.
11.3.a. Read with
comprehension a variety of
informational reading materials
“Breakfast” p. 868-874
Vocab Workshop p. 875
“A Rose for Emily” and “Address
upon Receiving the Nobel Prize in
Literature p. 876-889
“A Worn Path”
From Blackboy p. 900-908
“The Life You Save May be Your
Own” p. 913-925
“The Second Tree from the Corner”
p. 927-934
“To Don at Salaam” and “The Bean
Eaters” p. 935-939
“The Magic Barrell” p. 940-956
“The Rock Pile” p. 957-966
Part 2 The United States and the
World p. 967-1022
“War Message to Congress” p. 968972
“The Death of the Ball Turrett
Gunner” p. 974-977.
recognizing organizational
patterns.
11.3.B.2. -S Drawing
conclusions to determine author
intent
11.3.B.4. Evaluating quality of
writing
11.4.Analyze twentieth and
twenty-first century American
literary selections.
11.4.b. Analyze twentieth and
twenty-first century American
literary selections for cultural
significance.
11.5. Evaluate twentieth and
twenty-first century American
authors’ use of language.
11.5.a. Evaluate twentieth and
twenty-first century American
authors’ use of language
including length and complexity
of sentences
11.7 Compare writing styles of
two or more American authors
or public figures.
11.6. Determine word meaning
in twentieth and twenty-first
century American literature.
11.8.B.1 -S Using a variety of
sentence patterns
11.8.B.2 -S Developing an
effective
voice suitable for audience and
purpose
11.10. Edit writings including
student papers.
Grammar
11.6
11.10
(L) II-1
(R) IV-4
11.6.a. Determine word meaning Vocab Workshop Word Parts p. 973
in twentieth and twenty-first
Grammar Workshop; Sentence
I-3
Writing
11.10
2nd nine
weeks
11.1
11.3
11.4
11.14
I-2
I-3
II-2
III-1
IV-2
IV-3
century American literature
using word structure
11.10.B.1. -S Editing writings
for mechanics, usage, grammar,
and style
Structure p. 926
11.10.a. Edit writings including
student papers for correct
parallel form in clauses in a
series and with correlative
conjunctions.
11.10.b. Edit writings including
student papers for correct use of
subject-verb agreement with
subjects with intervening
phrases.
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects.
11.10.d. Edit writings including
student papers for indefinite
pronouns as subjects when the
verb form depends on the rest of
the sentence.
11.10.e. Edit writings including
student papers for subjects in
sentences with correlative
conjunctions or in inverted
order.
Unit 4 Narrative Writing
4.1-4.5 pgs. 160-200
11.1.a. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in American short
stories predominantly from
Comparing Literature Across Time
and Place
p. 978-998
“All Rivers Run to the Sea,”
“Kubota,” and Maus, p. 978-998
Hiroshima p. 1013-1019
IV-4
1900-present.
Modern American Drama
11.1.b. Analyze authors’ use of
The Crucible p. 1022
literary elements including
The Crucible p. 1022
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in drama
predominantly from 1900present..
11.1.c. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in poetry
predominantly from 1900present..
11.1.d. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in essays or other
non-fiction literature
predominantly from 1900present
11.1.B.2. -S Evaluating author
technique
11.3.B.1. -S Recognizing
fallacies in logic
11.3.e. Read with
comprehension a variety of
informational reading materials
and identifying directions
implied or embedded in a
passage.
11.3.f. Read with comprehension
a variety of functional reading
materials and identifying
directions implied or embedded
in a passage.
11.4.c. Analyze twentieth and
twenty-first century American
literary selections for use of
propaganda.
11.14. Identify propaganda in
nonprint media.
Grammar
11.10
11.11
I-2
I-3
I-5
I-7
II-1
11.10.B.1. -S Editing writings
for mechanics, usage, grammar,
and style
11.10.B.2. -I Demonstrating
appropriate use of ellipses,
parentheses, hyphens and
suspended hyphens, hyphenation
of number-and-noun modifiers,
slashes, and use of commas with
subordinate clauses and
nominative absolutes
11.11. Differentiate between the
use of active and passive voice.
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Unit 10 Parts of Speech Pg. 396
10.3 Verbs Pgs.411-417
Types: Action, Linking
*Verb Phrases and Verb Tense
*Subject-verb agreement (Resource:
Grammar Workbook)
Unit 9 Troubleshooter
9.3 Lack of Subject-Verb agreement
pgs. 376-379
9.7 shift in Verb Tense pg. 385
9.8 Incorrect Verb Tense or form pgs.
386-387
Grammar Review Pg. 442
.
Writing
11.10
11.10.a. Edit writings including
student papers for correct
parallel form in clauses in a
series and with correlative
conjunctions.
11.10.b. Edit writings including
student papers for correct use of
subject-verb agreement with
subjects with intervening
phrases.
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects.
11.10.d. Edit writings including
student papers for indefinite
10.5 Adverbs p.424-429
Unit 6 Persuasive Writing
6.1-6.8 pgs. 258-314
pronouns as subjects when the
verb form depends on the rest of
the sentence.
11.10.e. Edit writings including
student papers for subjects in
sentences with correlative
conjunctions or in inverted
order.
2nd nine
weeks
11.1
11.4
(L) 1-2
II-2
III-1
III-3
IV-1
11.1.a. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in American short
stories predominantly from
1900-present.
11.1.c. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in poetry
predominantly from 1900present..
11.1.d. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in essays or other
non-fiction literature
predominantly from 1900present
11.4.b. Analyze twentieth and
twenty-first century American
literary selections for cultural
significance.
(L) I-1
11.10.a. Edit writings including
Literature
Grammar
11.10
1960s to present
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
pg.1137
Part 1: An Era of Protest
Lost pg. 1139
“A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.” pg. 1153
Stay Alive, My Son pg.1185
Part 2: Nature and Technology
“The Fish” pg. 1208
“Cottonmouth Country” pg. 1251
“The War Against the Trees” pg. 1226
“Snow” pg. 1247
Unit 2 the Writing Process pgs. 56-
II-2
III-1
III-2
III-3
IV-2
IV-3
Writing
11.10
student papers for correct
parallel form in clauses in a
series and with correlative
conjunctions.
11.10.b. Edit writings including
student papers for correct use of
subject-verb agreement with
subjects with intervening
phrases.
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects.
11.10.d. Edit writings including
student papers for indefinite
pronouns as subjects when the
verb form depends on the rest of
the sentence.
11.10.e. Edit writings including
student papers for subjects in
sentences with correlative
conjunctions or in inverted
order.
11.10.a. Edit writings including
student papers for correct
parallel form in clauses in a
series and with correlative
conjunctions.
11.10.b. Edit writings including
student papers for correct use of
subject-verb agreement with
subjects with intervening
phrases.
11.10.c. Edit writings including
student papers for collective
nouns as subjects.
11.10.d. Edit writings including
student papers for indefinite
pronouns as subjects when the
104
Writing: A Five-Stage Process pgs.
56-59
Sentence Structure
Unit 11 Parts of a sentence pgs. 450473
Unit 13 Clauses and Sentence
Structure
Clauses
Types: 13.1 Main, 13.2 Subordinate,
13.5 Adjective and 13.7 Nouns
Sentence Structure
13.3 Simple and Compound Sentences
pgs. 500-501, 13.4 Complex and
Compound-Complex pgs 502-503;
13.8 Four kinds of sentences pg. 512
Unit 9 Troubleshooter
9.1/13.9 Sentence Fragment pgs. 372373/513
9.2/13.10 Run-on Sentence pgs. 374375/515
Writing
5.1-5.9 Expository Writing pgs.202256
verb form depends on the rest of
the sentence.
11.10.e. Edit writings including
student papers for subjects in
sentences with correlative
conjunctions or in inverted
order.
2nd nine
weeks
11.1
I-2
III-2
IV-4
Literature
11.1.a. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in American short
stories predominantly from
1900-present.
11.1.c. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in poetry
predominantly from 1900present..
11.1.d. Analyze authors’ use of
literary elements including
characterization, theme, tone,
setting, mood, plot and literary
point of view in essays or other
non-fiction literature
predominantly from 1900present
Grammar
Writing
Review and Exams
Part 3: Extending and Remaking
Traditions
The Woman Warrior pg. 1258
“My Father and the Figtree” pg. 1280
“The Names of Women” pg. 1290
“Traveling Through the Dark” pg.
1347
Review as needed
11.3
11.8
(L) I-1
II-2
11.3.b. Read with
comprehension a variety of
Unit 7 Research Paper Writing
7.1 Researching and Planning pg. 316
11.9
11.12
11.13
III-1
III-2
III-3
IV-2
IV-3
(R) I-3
IV-4
functional reading materials
recognizing organizational
patterns.
11.3.c. Read with
comprehension a variety of
informational reading materials
evaluating strengths and
weaknesses of argument.
11.3.d. Read with
comprehension a variety of
functional reading materials
evaluating strengths and
weaknesses of argument.
11.8.B.1 -S Using a variety of
sentence patterns
11.8.B.2 -S Developing an
effective voice suitable for
audience and purpose
11.9. Analyze writing for
parallelism in literary selections
and student writing.
11.12.a Use the research process
to manage, document, organize,
and present information to
support a thesis on a literary
topic.
11.12.B.1. -S Using
paraphrasing and documentation
of sources to avoid plagiarism
11.13. Compare the use of oral
presentation skills of self and
others.
7.2 Prewriting: Developing an
Outline pg.322
7.3 Drafting pg.326
7.4 Citing Sources pg.330
7.5 Revising pg.336
7.6 Editing and presenting pg.340
Research Paper