English 4 – Curriculum Planning Guide – 2011-2012
First Nine Weeks
Essential Question:
What makes a true hero?
Reading Selections
The Age of Heroes
Old-English Period (450 –
1066)
Core Text:
Beowulf
Vocabulary
Greek/Latin Roots
Affixes
-some (review)
Grammar Mini Lessons
Adjectives
Verbs
Transitions
Parallel Structure
Writing
Comparison-Contrast Essay
Research
Clarify and refine a research
topic
Use direct quotations,
paraphrasing, or summaries
MLA Style
Poetry:
The Seafarer/The
Wanderer/The Wife’s Lament,
pp. 98 – 111
Use a variety of print and
electronic reference materials.
Non-fiction:
from A History of the English
Church and People, pp. 92 –
97
Cold Reads:
Themes Across Cultures: from
the Iliad, pp. 72 – 90
Suggested Time:
3 – 4 weeks
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Reading Selections
Chivalry, Feudalism, and
the Church
Medieval Period (1066 –
1500)
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Greek/Latin Roots
mort
Affixes
Writing
Research
Narrative (short story and
poem)
Core Text(s):
The Canterbury Tales
Everyman
Fiction:
Federigo’s Falcon: Fifth Day,
Ninth Story from The
Decameron, pp. 202 – 211
from Le Morte d’Arthur, pp.
242 – 260
Poetry:
Barbara Allen/Robin Hood and
the Three Squires/Get Up and
Bar the Door, pp. 212 – 222
Non-fiction:
from The Book of Margery
Kempe, pp. 112 – 119
Pilgrimages: Journeys of the
Spirit, pp 196 – 201
Cold Reads:
from The Paston Letters, pp.
122 – 134
from Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, pp. 224 – 241
Suggested Time: 4.5 weeks
On Demand writing
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Second Nine Weeks
Essential Question:
Why do people seek power? AND What can fix societies problems.?
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
A Time of Renewal
The Renaissance (1500 –
1660)
Connotation
Greek/Latin Roots
Affixes
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Cause-effect Essay
Create oral, visual, and
multimedia presentations
Using direct quotations,
paraphrasing, and
summarizing
Core Text(s):
Macbeth*
Hamlet
MLA style
*English 4 Required Reading
Fiction:
from Utopia/Speech Before
the Spanish Armada Invasion
(non-fiction), pp. 436 – 443
Poetry:
The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love/The Nymoh’s Reply
to the Shepherd, pp. 304 –
309
Selected Poetry by William
Shakespeare, pp. 316 – 325
from Paradise Lost, pp. 485 –
495
Selected poetry by John
Donne, pp. 508 – 515
To His Coy Mistress/To the
Virgins, to Make Much of
Time/To Althea, from Prison,
pp. 522 – 528
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Second Nine Weeks
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Non-fiction:
from Essays from Sir Francis
Bacon, pp. 454 – 461
Cold Reads:
Sonnet 30/ Sonnet 75, pp.
310 – 315
Female Orations by Mary
Cavendish, pp. 462 – 470
On My First Son/Song: To
Celia, pp. 516 – 521
Suggested Time: 4.5
weeks
The Age of Reason
Neoclassical Period (1660
– 1785)
Affixes
-ance/-ence (review)
Core Text:
Gulliver’s Travels*
*English 4 Required Reading Option
Fiction:
from A Journal of the Plague
Year, pp. 580 – 587
Poetry:
from The Rape of the Lock,
pp. 598 – 607
Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard, pp. 678 – 686
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Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Non-fiction:
from The Spectator, pp. 588 –
594
A Modest Proposal, pp. 608 –
622
from A Dictionary of the
English Language, pp. 658 –
667
from The Life of Samuel
Johnson, pp. 668 – 677
from A Vindication of the
Rights of Women, pp. 706 –
716
Cold Reads:
from The Diary of Samuel
Pepys, pp. 566 – 577
On Her Loving Two
Equally/Written at the Close
of Spring, pp. 688 – 693
Suggested Time: 4.5
weeks
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Third Nine Weeks
Essential Question:
Is emotion stronger than reason? AND Why do people fear change?
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
A Return to Nature,
Emotion, and
Individualism
Romantic Period (1785 –
1830)
Connotation
Greek/Latin Roots
Subject/verb
Pronoun/antecedent
agreement
Sentence variety practice
Senior Project Presentation
Affixes
Core Text(s):
Pride and Prejudice*
Frankenstein*
Poetry:
Selected Poetry by William
Blake, pp. 752 – 761
Selected Poetry by William
Wordsworth, pp. 782 – 795
Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
pp. 796 – 819
Kubla Khan, pp. 824 – 828
Selected Poetry by George
Gordon, Lord Byron, pp. 832
– 841
Selected Poetry by Percy
Bysshe Shelley, pp. 846 – 859
Selected Poetry by John
Keats, pp. 860 – 872
Non-fiction:
from Coleridge’s Dreamscape:
“The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner,” pp. 820 – 823
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Third Nine Weeks
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Cold Reads:
To a Mouse/To a Louse, pp.
766 – 773
Suggested Time: 4.5 weeks
An Age of Change
Victorian Period (1830 –
1901)
Core Text(s):
A Tale of Two Cities*
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man
*English 4 Required Reading
– Option
Fiction:
Malachi’s Cove, pp. 950 – 973
Christmas Storms and
Sunshine, pp. 974 – 989
Poetry:
Selected Poetry by Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, pp. 908 – 923
My Last Duchess/Porphyria’s
Lover, pp 924 – 931
The Darkling Thrush/Ah, Are
You Digging on My Grave?,
pp. 1048 – 1054
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Third Nine Weeks
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Non-fiction:
Evidence of Progress/The
Condition of England, pp.
1010 – 1023
Viewpoints on Globalization,
pp. 1024 – 1029
Cold Reads:
To an Athlete Dying
Young/When I Was One-andTwenty, pp. 1040 – 1045
Sonnet 43/Rememberance,
pp. 932 – 939
Pied Beauty/Spring and Fall:
To a Young Child, pp. 942 –
946
Suggested Time: 4.5 weeks
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Fourth Nine Weeks
Essential Question:
Why is there always war?
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
A New Identity
Modern Period (roughly
1900 – 1945)
Connotation
Greek/Latin Roots
Hyphenation conventions
Active/passive voice
Persuasive essay
Speech
Create oral, visual, and
multimedia presentations
Core Text(s):
Pygmalion
Heart of Darkness
Animal Farm
Brave New World
1984
Affixes
Using direct quotations,
paraphrasing, and
summarizing
circum- (review)
MLA style
Fiction:
A Cup of Tea, pp. 1102 –
1113
The Rocking Horse Winner,
pp. 1128 – 1147
Araby, pp. 1174 – 1185
Poetry:
Selected Poetry by T.S. Eliot,
pp. 1092 – 1101
Do Not Go Gentle Into That
Good Night/Fern Hill, pp.
1158 – 1164
Selected Poetry by William
Butler Yeats, pp. 1166 – 1173
Non-fiction:
Shooting An Elephant, pp.
1226 – 1237
Words and Behavior, pp.
1240 – 1255
from the Speeches of Winston
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Fourth Nine Weeks
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Churchill, pp. 1264 – 1272
Cold Reads:
The Duchess and the Jeweler,
pp. 1114 – 1127
Musée des Beaux Arts/The
Unknown Citizen, pp. 1150 –
1157
Suggested Time: 3 – 4
weeks
A New Order
Post-modern Period (1945
– present)
Connotation
Greek/Latin Roots
Core Text(s):
The Mousetrap
On the Beach
Night
The Book Thief
My Forbidden Face
Angela’s Ashes
Affixes
Resume’
chron (review)
terr (review)
Fiction:
The Distant Past, pp. 1294 –
1306
Six Feet of the Country, pp.
1316 – 1331
Poetry:
Digging/The Horses, pp. 1278
– 1285
Telephone Conversation, pp.
1308 – 1313
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Fourth Nine Weeks
Reading Selections
Vocabulary
Grammar Mini Lessons
Writing
Research
Non-fiction:
No More Strangers Now:
Young Voices from a New
South Africa, pp. 1332 – 1337
Cold Reads:
The Frog Prince/Not Waving
but Drowning, pp. 1286 1291
A Devoted Son, pp. 1338 –
1350
Suggested Time: 4.5 weeks
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