McDougall-Littell Course Overview Guide -GRADE 12 NSBSD
DRAFT
(Grade 12 – Template for Essential Course of Study – TE pages T14 and T15)
Unit
Theme
1.
The Origins
of a Nation
Essential Core Lessons
1-Lit. Analysis Workshop/The Epic, …Medieval
2-Beowulf
3-Iliad
4- A History of the English Church & People
5-The Canterbury Tales
6-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
7-Writing Workshop
8-Assessment File Unit & Benchmark Tests Unit 1
2
3.
4.
5.
A
Celebration
of Human
Achieveme
nt
Tradition &
Reason
Emotion &
Experiment
ation
An Era of
Rapid
Change
6
New Ideas,
New Voices
7.
Invest/Dis
Revised 7/25/12
9-Review/Practice Alaska SBA Assessments
1- Lit. Analysis Workshop/Sonnet Form
2-Pastoral Poems & Sonnets
3-Macbeth
4-Utopia, 5- Paradise Lost, 6- Metaphysical
7-Writing Workshop,
8-Assessment File Unit & Benchmark Tests Unit 2
9-Review/Practice Alaska SBA Assessments
1-Lit. Analysis Workshop/Nonfiction…
2-Robinson Crusoe,
3- Lit. Analysis Workshop/Satire
4-Gulliver’s Travels
5-The Life of Samuel Johnson,
6- The Journal & Letters of Fanny Burney
7- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
8-Wtg.Workshop
9-Assessment Unit 3, 9-Rev/Prac. Alaska SBAs
1-Lit. Analysis Workshop/Romanticism
2-…Neoclassicism, 3- The Lake Poets-The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner,
4- Lit. Analysis Workshop/…Poetry
4-The Late Romantics-Pride & Prejudice and
5-Frankenstein,
6-Wtg. Workshop
7-Assessment Unit 4,
8-Rev/Practice Alaska SBA Assessments
1-Lit. Analysis Workshop/…Fiction
2-The Lady of Shalott
3-Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning
4- Jane Eyre, 5-Realism, 6-Victorian Viewpoints
7-Writing Workshop
8-Assessment Unit 5
9-Rev/Prac Alaska SBA Assessments
2012-13
Intervention
Instruction
See sample lesson
plan for more
examples and
suggestions for
differentiation
and intervention.
Assessment
Every 5 weeks - Unit
Assessment - McDougall
AIMSweb/
Map
Benchmark
9/4-20/12
AIMSweb
Fall K-8
Winter/
Spring K-2
6-Trait Writing Assessment
MAP
Fall 9-12
Winter 3-12
Spring 3-8
HSGQE retest 10/2-4/12
10/22-11/2/12
Set-up and run AIMSweb
Progress Monitoring
for students below Lexile 1050
http://www.eed.st
ate.ak.us/tls/asses
sment/SBS_ItemSa
mplers.html
End 9/21/12
Begin 9/24/12
WorkKeys 11/5-16/12
End 10/26/12
Begin 10/29/12
- Bridges to Lit.
-CORE Teaching
Reading
Sourcebook
-Read Naturally
-REWARDS
-6 Min. Solution
-Achieve 3000
-Phonics for Rdg.
-Pearson Hi/Lo
Abridged Book
Classics (3rd-6th
grade reading
level)
5 extra weeks to
be used for
HSGQE prep &
testing and
research paper
Dates
Complete by:
Begin 8/20/12
Map
Benchmark
1/212/10/13
End 12/19/12
Begin 1/7/13
Unit 4 Test
AIMSweb
Progress
Monitoring
ACCESS
(all ELL
stus.) 2/13/31/13
End 2/8/13
Begin 2/11/13
HSGQE
4/2-4/13
Map
Benchmark
4/175/3/13
End 3/15/13
6-Traits Writing 3/4-15/13
Research Workshop/Writing Workshop
Begin 3/18/13
End 5/16/13