DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
Unit
Latin and
Central
America
Time
Essential
Question
CCS
Semester:
3 weeks
Yearlong:
6 weeks
What
narrative
forms and
techniques
are specific
to Latin
and Central
American
Literature?
RL.910.1.
RL.910.4.
RL.910.6.
RI.910.5.
RI.910.8.
W.910.4-6.
W.910.9.
SL.910.6.
L.910.5-6.
1
Objectives
Key Terms
Explore the
role of the
magical and
fantastical in
Latin American
Literature
Explore
narrative forms
and techniques
in Latin
American
literature
Analyze the
role of time
Explore the
role of local
and universal
themes
Create clear,
original,
specific thesis
statements
Organize
concrete
evidence and
supporting
textual details
to support a
thesis
statement
Use precise
language
Write
appropriate
Extended
metaphor
First person
POV
Foreshadowin
g
Imagery
Irony
Magical
Realism
Metaphor
Paradox
Rhetoric
Symbolism
Theme
R
L
Works
WORLD HISTORY
COLLABORATION
LITERARY TEXTS
POETRY
 “Rocking” Gabriela Mistral (Chile) (WL)
 “The Horses”, “Ode to my socks” (PHL) Pablo Neruda (Chile) (WL)
 “Weaving the Morning” Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil) (WL)
 “Wind and Water and Stone” Octavio Paz (Mexico) (WL); “Poet’s Epitaph”, “Fable”, “Concord” (PHL)
 “Reaping the Barley” Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador) (WL)
 “Afterglow” Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) (WL)
 “The Window” Jaime Torres Bodet (Mexico) (WL)
 “Sea Grapes”, “Sunday Lemons” Derek Walcott (Trinidad) (PHL)
SHORT STORIES
-“THE GLASS OF MILK” MANUEL ROJAS
(CHILE) (WL)
- “THE VILLAGE WITHOUT TIME” GERARDO
MARIA (MEXICO) (WL)
- “THE HANDSOMEST DROWNED MAN IN
THE WORLD” (PHL), “TUESDAY SIESTA” GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (COLOMBIA)
(WL)
- “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” JORGE LUIS BORGES (ARGENTINA) (PHL)
- “HOUSE TAKEN OVER” JULIO CORTAZAR
(ARGENTINA) (PHL)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
 “Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in (E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.
DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
transitions to
organize
paragraphs
Analyze how
literary devices
produce
meaning.
Castro’s Gulag” Armando Valladares (find online)
ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA
ART
 “Bird Pendant” Costa Rica
 “Tripod Bird Bowl” Guatemala
 “Deity Figure” Honduras
Novels??
Unit
Asia
Time
Essential
Question
CCS
Semester:
4 weeks
Yearlong:
8 weeks
How does
Asian
literature
draw from
Western
influences?
How does
Asian
literature
draw on
cultural
tradition?
•RL.910.2.
RL.910.5.
RI.910.1.
RI.910.4.
W.910.7.
W.910.10.
SL. 910.1. L.910.2.
2
Objectives
Key Terms
Explore ancient
and modern
works of
literature from
Asian countries
Consider how
Asian literature
both draws on
and questions
cultural
traditions.
Consider how
certain Asian
authors
integrate
Western
literary
influences into
their cultural
contexts
Write a close
literary analysis
of a work of
poetry, fiction
or drama,
Absurd
Allegory
Confucianism
Figurative
language
Filial piety
First person
POV
Foreshadowin
g
Internal
monologue
Irony
Metaphor
Paradox
Perfect rhyme
Perspective
Poetic
translation
Simile
Stream of
Consciousness
Symbol
Taoism
Works
LITERARY TEXTS
DRAMA
-“THE DWARF TREES” SEAMI
MOTOKIYO (JAPAN) (WL)
SHORT STORIES
-“THE KABULIWALLAH” RABINDRANATH
TAGORE (WL)
-“LIKE THE SUN” R.K. NARAYAN (WL)
-“AUTUMN MOUNTAIN” AKUTAGAWA
RYUNOSUKE (WL)
POETRY
 “Tu Fu” The Emperor (China) (WL)
 “My Heart, Thinking” Lady Otomo
(Japan) (WL)
 “All That Dances” Sarojini Naidu (WL)
 “Taking Leave of a Friend” Li Po (China) (WL)
 Tankas and Haikus- Lit. book
WORLD HISTORY
COLLABORATION
SAS: Writing poetry
based on Chinese
and Japanese
models QL#367
SAS: Postcolonial life
reflected in the
works of Anita
Desai, Bharati
Mukherjee, and
Arundhati Roy.
QL#159
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
 “Six Records of a Floating Life” Shen Fu (China) (online)
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.
DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
Unit
Time
Essential
Question
Africa and
the
Middle
East
Semester: 4
weeks
Yearlong: 8
weeks
How did
African and
Middle
Eastern
3
CCS
RL.910.1.
RL.910.4.
considering
language use
and literary
elements.
Create a clear,
original and
specific thesis
statement.
Organize
concrete
evidence and
supporting
details to
support thesis
statement
Use precise
language
Write
appropriate
transitions to
organize
paragraphs
Analyze how
philosophy
influences
literature
Understand
how literary
devices convey
theme
Theme
Third-person
omniscience
Tone
(Chinese)
Objectives
Key Terms
-Read a variety of
works from Africa
and the Middle
East, particularly
Antagonist
Colonialism
Denouement
Extended
 NONFICTION
 “By Any Other Name” Santha Rama Rau (India) (WL)
 “Sayings from the Analects” Confucius (China) (WL)
 Various nonfiction- Lit. book
 Education in Asia periodicals
 “The Tao Te Ching” Lao Tzu (China) (Lit. book)
ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA
ART
 “Scenes from the life of Buddha”
 “One Hundred Views of Edo” Ando Hiroshige
Novels??
Works
LITERARY TEXTS
DRAMA
 “The Jewels of the Shrine” James Ene Henshaw (Nigeria) (WL)
WORLD HISTORY
COLLABORATION
-SAS: Postcolonialism:
Exploring African, Indian,
Australian and
Caribbean Literature
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.
DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
literature
change
from the
colonial to
the postcolonial
period?
4
RL.910.6.
RI.910.5.
RI.910.8.
W.910.4-6.
W.910.9.
SL.910.6. L.910.5-6
from the
postcolonial
period.
-Consider the
challenges of
translation,
including the
different
connotations that
various cultures
attach to given
words.
-Through analysis
of literary works,
explore the
changing social
structures of
Middle Eastern
and African
societies
-Explore various
literary devices in
plot development
such as suspense,
foreshadowing,
symbolism, and
extended
metaphor
-Trace the
development of
an idea or
argument in a
work of literary
nonfiction
-Create a clear,
original, specific
thesis statement
Metaphor
Foreshadowin
g
Irony
Mysticism
Paradox
Persona
Point of view
Postcolonialis
m
Rhetoric
Satire
NOVELS

QL#566
“Things Fall Apart” Chinua Achebe
POETRY



“And We Shall Be Steeped” Leopold S. Senghor (Senegal) (WL)
“Sunset” Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (South Africa) (WL)
African Proverbs – Lit. book
SHORT STORIES
 “The Winner” Barbara Kimenye (Uganda) (WL)
 “Dead Man’s Path” Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) (WL)
 “The Quarry” Alan Paton (South Africa) (WL)
 “Half a Day” (Lit.book) “A Tale of Our Quarter” Naguib Mahfouz (Eqypt) (WL)
 “Marriage is a Private Affair” Chinua Achebe (Lit.book)
INFORMATIONAL TEXT
 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

“Out of Africa” Isak Dinesen (online)
SPEECHES

“Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993” Nelson Mandela (online)
ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.
DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
-Organize
concrete evidence
and supporting
textual details to
support a thesis
statement
-Use precise
language
-Write
appropriate
transitions to
organize
paragraphs
-Analyze how
literary devices
convey theme.
Unit
Russia
Time
Essential
Question
CCS
Objectives
Key Terms
Semester: 5
weeks
Yearlong: 10
weeks
How did
the
Bolshevik
Revolution
and
communis
m impact
Russian
literature?
RL.910.3.
RL.910.4.
RI.910.3.
RI.910.6-7.
W.910.1-2.
SL.910.3. L.910.3.
Read works of
Russian
literature both
for their
intrinsic
qualities and
for their
relation to the
historical
context
Analyze the
motives,
qualities and
contradictions
of a character
in Russian
literature
Describe the
The absurd
Allusion
Antihero
Bolshevik
Revolution
Carnivalesque
Communism
Digression
Fantasy
Fate
Grotesque
Gulag
Irony
Narrator
reliability
Paranormal
Persona
Repetition
5
Works
LITERARY TEXTS
POEMS
“I HAVE VISITED AGAIN” ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (LIT.BOOK)
“FREEDOM TO BREATHE”, “VISIT” ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
(LIT.BOOK)
“EVERYTHING IS PLUNDERED”, “I AM NOT ONE OF THOSE WHO LEFT
THE LAND” ANNA AKHMATOVA
(PHL)
“THE DROWSY GARDEN”, “THE WEEPING GARDEN” BORIS
PASTERNARK (PHL)
“I AM GOYA” ANDREI VOZNESENSKY (PHL)
“VISIT”, “WEDDINGS” YEVGENY
WORLD HISTORY
COLLABORATION
SAS: Trotsky and
Stalin: Communism
in the Soviet Union
QL#934
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.
DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
effect of the
narrative
structure,
pacing and
tone in a work
of Russian
literature
Analyze the
role of utopian
ideology in
select works of
Russian
literature
Consider the
impact of the
Bolshevik
Revolution and
Communist
rule on
twentiethcentury
Russian writers
and literature
Create a clear,
original,
specific thesis
statement
Organize
concrete
evidence and
details to
support thesis
statement
Use precise
language
Write
appropriate
6
Stalinism
Verse
(syllabic,
accentual,
syllabicaccentual)
YEVTUSHENKO (PHL)
SHORT STORIES
 “How Much Land Does A Man Need?” Leo Tolstoy (Lit.book)
 “A Problem” Anton Chekov (Lit. book)
 “One Great Heart” Alexander Solzhenitsyn (PHL)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
SPEECHES

“from Nobel Lecture” Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Lit.book)
ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA
Novels??
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.
DCS SEMESTER CORRELATION FOR COMMON CORE ELA MAPS-GRADE 10
transitions to
organize
paragraphs
Apply new
terminology to
the texts
Analyze how
historical
events
influence
literature
Analyze how
literary devices
help convey
theme
7
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars. WL
is from the yellow World Literature book. PHL is from the Prentice Hall Lit World Masterpieces gray book.