Renton High School
IB 11th LA HL Curriculum map 2014-16
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Topic:
Content
Skills Focus
1
Week 1
9/3-5
Community Building, IB
profile, Syllabus, making
choices
Community
Week 2
9/8-12
Summer reading:
Catch up, Text Talk, Text
Analysis, Oral
Commentary, Socratic
Seminar with Written
Task #2 as our guided
questions
Plot
Character
Setting
Conflict
Theme
Narrative Voice
Close Reading
Summer Assignment
(Chopin)Biographical
Information PLUS 3 of
the following:
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
TOK
connection/inter
-disciplinary
connection
Homework
assigned
For 9/8 to 10/6
SAT Vocab
Quiz #1
(formative)
EQ (short
stories): Does
literature
matter?
Prepare for Oral
Commentary
Practice - Self
pacing, depth and
explanation of
selection
See above
TBD
IB Standard 2:
Demonstrate an
ability to use
terminology
relevant to the
various text
types studied
In-class
analysis
practice –
Theme and
tone
statements
Resources needed
IB Standard 3:
Discuss the
different ways
in which
language and
image may be
used in a range
of texts
SAT Vocabulary Prep #1
Practice for Written
Assessments
(Formative
and
Summative)
IB Standard 1:
Demonstrate
knowledge and
understanding
of a range of
texts
“The Story of An Hour”
“Desiree’s Baby”
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
“Beyond the Bayou”
“The Storm”
Week 3
Standards
(CCSS and IB)
Benchmark
See above
Benchmark
Written Task #2
9/15-19
Task #2
Assessment:
Written Task
#2
SAT Vocabulary Prep #2
Rubric; Lab/COWS
need to be booked
SAT Vocab
Quiz #2
2
Week 4
9/22-26
Start Part 4 –Langston
Hughes poems
SAT Vocabulary Prep #3
Close Reading
See above
Rhetorical
Analysis
SAT Vocab
Quiz #3
EQ (poetry):
Does literature
matter?
Respond to
Essential
Question through
online class
discussion blog
See above
“Mother to Son”
Model Write
(Creative) –
Author’s style
Respond to
Essential
Question
through online
class
discussion blog
Sound and
Structure
Imagery
Figurative
Language
Internal
formative
assessments
done in class,
as needed
IB Book Review
TPCASTT
Diction
Week 5
9/29-10/3
Critical Study: Hughes
Poetry, RA
“Life is Fine”
“Let America be
America Again”
“Mother to Son”
“The Negro Speaks of
Rivers”
“As I Grew Older”
“Dinner Guest: Me”
“The Ballad of the
Landlord”
“Po’ Boy Blues”
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
TPCASTT
Sound and
Structure
Form, Audience
Purpose
Critical analysis
Scansion,
Meter, and Feet
See above
Critical
analysis of 1
LH poem,
using sentence
frames
(formative)
SAT Vocab
Quiz #4
Critical analysis of
1 LH poem, using
sentence frames
(formative)
focusing on
diction and syntax
and effects on the
reader
Lab/COWs booked
for M-T (just in case)
“Harlem (Dream
Deferred)”
“I, Too”
And others
Week 6
10/6-10
Using textual
evidence to
support
commentary
and analysis
SAT Vocab Prep #4
Diction and
Syntax
Critical Study: Hughes
Poetry
TPCASTT
SAT Vocabulary Prep #5
See above
Scansion,
Meter, and Feet
Prepare for an
IOC
(formative)
See above
Practice IOC –
process, outline,
and transitions
See above
Written Task #1
Rationale, Poem
Typed (from
“Mother to Son”
Model Write)
SAT Vocab
Quiz #5
Effects on the
reader
Preparing for an
IOC
Using textual
evidence to
support
commentary
and analysis
Week 7
10/13-17
Critical Study: Hughes
Poetry
TPCASTT
Scansion,
Meter, and Feet
Effects on the
reader
Preparing for an
IOC
Using textual
evidence to
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
See above
TBD
support
commentary
and analysis
3
Week 8
10/20-24
Creative ?
Transition to Chaucer
Close reading
skills
Annotation
Craft and
structure
Rhetorical
Analysis
For 10/20-1/16 Ongoing, as
IB Standard 2:
needed
Demonstrate an
ability to use
terminology
relevant to the
various text
types studied
See above
TBD
See above
TBD
IB Standard 1:
Demonstrate
knowledge and
understanding
of a range of
texts
IB Standard 3:
Discuss the
different ways
in which
language and
image may be
used in a range
of texts
Week 9
10/27-31
Intro to Chaucer
A Knights Tale
Context “Scavenger
Hunt”
Prologue
Wife of Bath
Miller’s Tale
Pardoner’s Tale
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
Plot
Character
Setting
Conflict
Theme
Narrative Voice
Close Reading
See above
plus
IB Standard 4:
Demonstrate an
ability to use
the oral and
written forms
of the language,
in a range of
styles,
registers and
situations
4
Week 10
11/3-7
Critical Study: Chaucer
See above
See above
Personal Essay
See above
TBD
Week 11
11/10-14
Short week
(11/12-14
only)
Critical Study: Chaucer
Plot
Character
Setting
Conflict
Theme
Narrative Voice
Close Reading
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
EQ (short
stories): Does
literature
matter?
TBD
Week 12
11/17-21
Critical Study: Chaucer
See above
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
See above
Week 13
11/24-28
Thanksgivin
g Break
Critical Study: Chaucer
See above
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
Short week:
Parent
Conferences
Week 14
12/1-5
Week 15
12/8-12
Critical Study: Chaucer
Plot
Character
Setting
Conflict
Theme
Narrative Voice
Close Reading
Written Task #2 – Pick 3- See above
4 questions
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
TBD
EQ (narrative –
poetry and
prose): Does
literature
matter?
TBD
See above
TBD
Week 16
12/15-19
Critical Study: Chopin
See above
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
See above
TBD
Week 17
1/5-9
Critical Study: Chopin
See above
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
See above
TBD
Week 18
1/12-16
Critical Study: Chopin
See above
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
See above
TBD
Week 19
1/19-23
FINALS
FINALS WEEK
SL Paper #1: FINAL for
ALL Classes (1 unseen
text)
Feb 2015
Part 1
TOK
Chapters of The Tipping
Point, “Outliers,”
Freakonomics
Politics and the English
Language Orwell
Corn-Pone Opinions
Twain
The Freedom to Choose
Your Pronoun
Hip-Hop Planet”
McBride
Declaration of
Independence and StarSpangled Banner
Pledge of Allegiance
Propaganda WW I and II
Mother Tongue Tan
Names/Nombres
Alvarez
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
IB Standard 3:
Produce a
critical
response
evaluating
some aspects of
text, context
and meaning
See above
Ongoing, as
needed
EQ: How does
the language we
use reveal who
we are?
Nacerima
A Modest Proposal
March 2015
FOA #1 Mid March –
Possibilities:
Interview
Dinner Party
Monologue
Impersonation of an
author
Close textual analysis
(Focus on PART 1
Works)
Recorders
April 2015
IOCs: Part 4 Texts
Recorders
May 2015
Prepare for Paper #1 –
Compare/Contrast
(Selections from
“Strange Bedfellows”?)
June 2015
Paper #1 HL Practice (2
unseen texts)
Paper #1
Practice –
Synthesis:
Non-Fiction
Semester Final
Summer 2015 Reading: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sept 2015
November
2015
December
2015
Part 2
FOA #2 Focus on Part 2
Texts
Written Task #1 Part 2
Texts
Jan 2016
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
TOK Essay
Feb 2016
Part 3
Chronicle of a Death
Foretold, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
The Great Gatsby, F.
Scott Fitzgerald
The God of Small Things,
Arundhati Roy
***DUE February 28th**
Written Task 1 and 2
FOA 1 and 2
IOC
April-May
2016
Review and
Practice Paper
1 and 2
Paper 1:
Synthesis nonfiction
Paper 2: 1/6
questions on
Part 3 texts
May 2016
Papers 1 and 2
Reflection
Unit
Unit 1
Unit 2
Content- add/delete
Revised: Monday, October 27, 2014
Pacing
Assessment- type/dates
Resources
Misc.