ENGLISH III:
Unit/Literary Work
Persuasion
-“I Have a Dream”
-“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
-“Speech to the Virginia Convention”
-“Declaration of Independence”
- -Kennedy’s “Ask Not” speech
Ms. Stomboly
Relevant Indicators
Logical and emotional appeals
Bias
Fact v. Opinion
Author’s purpose
Diction
Sentence Structure
Topic, main idea, supporting detail
Cause & Effect in persuasive texts
Satire affecting author’s purpose
Making inferences & drawing conclusions
Compare/contrast text structure
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
Persuasive techniques using
supplemental materials
(writing assessment)
Bandwagon, Glittering Generalities, Citing
Authority, Testimonial, Statistics, Logical
and Emotional Appeals
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Cause & Effect in narrative texts
Sequence text structure
Making inferences & drawing conclusions
Author’s purpose
Description text structure
Character’s traits and motives
Idioms
Hyperbole
Simile
Theme
Character types (protagonist/antagonist,
round/flat, static/dynamic)
Setting & its influence on plot
Conflict
Subplots
Parallel episodes
Foreshadowing
Irony
Allusion
The Crucible
Transcendentalism
-Emerson, “Self-Reliance” and “Nature”
-Thoreau, “Walden” and “Civil
Disobedience”
-On Civil Disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi
-John Donne
Modern Literature
-Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Crossing Cultures-Modern Literature
Life of Phi
Cause & Effect in narrative texts
Sequence text structure
Making inferences & drawing conclusions
Author’s purpose
Description text structure
Character’s traits and motives
Symbolism
Theme
Character types (protagonist/antagonist,
round/flat, static/dynamic)
Setting & its influence on plot
Conflict
Subplots
Climax
Resolution
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Problem/Solution text structure
Author’s purpose
Theme
Setting & its influence on plot
Paradox
Problem/Solution text structure
Author’s purpose
Theme
Setting & its influence on plot
Paradox
Sequence text structure
Making inferences & drawing conclusions
Author’s purpose
Description text structure
Character’s traits and motives
Theme
Cause & effect in narrative texts
Character types (protagonist/antagonist,
round/flat, static/dynamic)
Setting & its influence on plot
Conflict
Subplots
Climax
Resolution
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Word Parts
-sorts
-matching games
-flashcards
-combining and creating word parts
-using word parts
-identifying word parts in text
Context Clues
-sorts
-practice activities
Text Features
(beginning of the year)
-tables, charts, graphs practices
The Great Gatsby
Literature of the Civil War
-Frederick Douglass
Poetry
-Langston Hughes
-Maya Angelou
-Sylvia Plath
-Robert Frost
-Emily Dickinson
Greek and Latin word parts (prefixes,
suffixes, and roots)
Context Clues (definition, restatement,
example, description, compare/contrast,
clue words, and cause and effect)
Text Features (title, graphs/charts/maps,
table of contents, pictures/illustrations,
boldface type, italics, glossary, index,
headings, subheadings, topic and summary
sentences, captions, sidebars, underline,
numbered or bulleted lists, footnotes,
annotations)
Symbolism
Personification
Imagery
Theme
Character’s traits and motives
Cause and Effect in narrative texts
Character types (protagonist/antagonist,
round/flat, static/dynamic)
Setting & its influence on plot
Conflict
Subplots
Climax
Resolution
Falling action
Parallel Episodes
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Point-of-view
Theme
Tone
Mood
Overstatement
Onomatopoeia
Similes
Metaphors
Analogies
Imagery
Symbolism
Theme
The New Role of Women
-The Yellow Wallpaper
Edgar Allen Poe
-Raven
Hawthorne Short Stories
-Young Goodman Brown
-Rappaccini’s Daughter
-The Minister’s Black Veil
Literary Analysis/Research Projects
The Rise of Naturalism
-The Open Boat
The Harlem Renaissance
-How It Feels to Be Colored Me, Zora
Neale Hurston
Tone
Simile
Metaphor
Mood
Irony
Tone
Setting
Understand social context
Setting & its influence on plot
Climax
Rising Action
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Tone
Mood
Setting & its influence on plot
Climax
Rising Action
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism
Tone
Imagery
Paraphrasing
Summarizing
Embedded quotes
Naturalism, Analyze
Descriptive Language
Tone
Identify Main Ideas