No. of
Unit Lessons
Title
Sentence Writing: Look to Your
Future
Readings
Writing Tasks
Media Literacy
Formative Assessments
"Letter to the Editor of the Charleston Gazette" by
Pat Conroy, “Cover Letters from Hell: Expose Poor
Quality of College Grads” article, "A Dream
Deferred" by Langston Hughes, classified ads for
employment, “Smart Goal Setting: A Surefire Way
to Achieve Your Goals.” Sustained Silent Reading
with students reading books of their choice is
recommended to occur daily for 10-15 minutes.
Suggested Reading: Don Quixote by deCerventes
Miguel (dreams and goals tranlating to real world)
Cover Letter for employer or
college admission, Personal
Mission Statement, Sentence of
the Week, Quick Writes on a
variety of topics, Paragraph on
Conroy’s considerations of
audience, purpose, and tone in
the letter to the Gazette, Writers
Notebook for reflections,
classified ad for the career of
their choice
Present Personal Mission
Statement using digital media,
analyze and interpret visuals and
recognize the impact digital
media has on audiences, using a
graphic to illustrate a personal
mission statement
Practice Presentations, Exit Slips,
Class Discussion, Answering text
dependent questions, Cover
Letter peer review
Informational Writing Rubric,
Informational Speaking Rubric,
Sentence of the Week student
work
This unit has students writing a personal
mission statement, taking an interest
inventory, researching possible careers,
practicing writing quality sentences,
examining audience, tone and purpose
in a text, and analyzing and writing a
cover letter.
Students investigate the safe use
of social media, create a
multimedia presentation, and
present before a panel of experts
Peer evaluations, practice
presentations, progress checks by
the teacher, Self Reflection on
Learning
12th Grade Argumentative
Instructional Speaking Rubric,
Collaboration Rubric, 12th Grade
Informative Writing Rubric
In this PBL students are presented with
the challenge of convincing a panel of
adults about the values of social media
sites. They will research various sites
and develop a multimedia presentation .
Peer review, Writer's
Conferences (with teacher)
Narrative Writing Rubric
This unit is ongoing throughout the year.
Part A is for the first semester.
1
5
2
PBL
Paragraph Writing: Friend Me, Follow "Social Media Help, Hinders Job Search for Grads,"
Me, Hire Me!
Sustained Silent Reading with students reading
books of their choice is recommended to occur
daily for 10-15 minutes.
Suggested Reading: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
and Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (Essays must demonstrate clear, strong
paragraphs with transitions)
Students write an Acceptable Use
Policy for Social Media, Writers
Notebook entries, notes from
research on the social media site,
focus on writing containing
transitional words, creation of a
group contract, Self Reflection on
Learning
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2
Modes of Writing Part A: Tools for the “How to Write Compelling Stories,” "Why Good
Future
English Is Good for You," "On Narratives," Chekov’s
"Home." Sustained Silent Reading with students
reading books of their choice is recommended to
occur daily for 10-15 minutes.
Suggested
Reading: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
and/or A. E. Housman's When I Was One-andTwenty (poems used to create an argument about
how age affects our perspective).
Writing thesis statements for
Determining the appeal of
argumentative, informational and advertisements
narrative writing, using the
writing process to create a 15001750 word narrative, make a
claim and support it with
evidence, Writers Notebook
entries
Summative Assessment
Notes on Unit
No. of
Unit Lessons
4
5
5
PBL
6
7
Title
Readings
Modes of Writing Part B: Tools for the “Champion of the World” by Mya Angelou,
Future
“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, “The
Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry, “Note to a
Sixth-Grade Self” by Julie Orringer, a teacherchosen Shakespeare soliloquy, “Behind the
Formaldehyde Curtain,” “Why I Want a Wife,“ “The
Ways We Lie,“ “Your Skills Should be Transferable,”
“The Best Job for You,” “Reach for the Stars,” 2008
Presidential speeches, “I Have a Dream” by Martin
Luther King, Jr., "How to Change a Tire," "How to
Break in a New Baseball Glove," "How to Bake a
Traditional Apple Strudel," "The Roommate,"
"Hamilton vs. Jefferson," "Breakfast Foods."
Sustained Silent Reading with students reading
books of their choice is recommended to occur
daily for 10-15 minutes. Suggested Reading:
Wisdom's Kiss by Catherine Gilbert Murdockliterary text- perspective, dialogue, writing for
different purposes
Writing Tasks
Media Literacy
Students study various types of Students collaborate with peers
writing and write in the various and experts using digital media.
genres. They write narrative and
informational pieces, a
classification piece, a public
service announcement on the
career of their choice, and an
analytical argument. Students
create a process essay.
Multimedia presentation on a
career
Formative Assessments
Summative Assessment
Notes on Unit
Ticket Out the Door, Class
Public Service Announcement
Discussion, Question Formulation Rubric, Presentation Rubric,
Technique
WVDE 12th Grade Narrative
Writing Rubric, Informational
Writing Rubric, Argumentative
Writing Rubric,
This unit is a follow-up to Modes of
Writing Part A and the lessons may be
taught throughout the year. This unit
focuses on writing as a tool for real life.
In almost all careers students will have
to do various kinds of writing, such as
proposals, progress reports, and
accident reports. In post-secondary
education, students will be asked to
write research papers, analyses of what
they read, and other forms of
communication. Having the skills to
write with clarity, proper style, and to
address the audience are vital in college
and the workplace.
Peer review of essays, Note
Check Checklist
This PBL focuses on career research and
the students will create a multimedia
presentation appropriate for 8th
graders.
Essay Writing: Back to Your Future
Research on the career of their choice, articles on 2 page informational essay on a
plagiarism, Sustained Silent Reading with students career, Time Traveler's Log
reading books of their choice is recommended to (narrative writing)
occur daily for 10-15 minutes.
Suggested
Reading: Muchacho by Lou Anne Johnson
(determination to overcome one's situation and
shape own destiny)
1
Literary Analysis Part A: Aren't You a
Shrewd One?
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Sustained
Silent Reading with students reading books of their
choice is recommended to occur daily for 10-15
minutes. Another Suggested Reading: Tales from
Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Writers Notebook entries,
Comparison of written text with
annotation of text, rewriting the media portrayal
entire play into an 8-minute
scene
Class discussion, peer evaluation Production Rubric
Students will compare the Shakespeare
version to contemporary film versions
with the same theme.
PBL
Literary Analysis Part B: Don't Know
MuchAbout History
A variety of foundational works of American
literature in the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-centuries. Sustained Silent Reading with
students reading books of their choice is
recommended to occur daily for 10-15 minutes.
Example for Suggested Reading of Literary Text:
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens could be
paired with 19th Century informational text
criticizing cruelty and injustice.
Students will research the time
period, read several literary
works, determine two or more
themes and collaborate to create
and present a book trailer. They
write a literary analysis and an
end-of-project evaluation.
Class discussion, peer evaluation, Presentation Rubric, Analytical
teacher observation
Essay Rubric, Appropriateness of
Sources Rubric, Collaboration
Rubric
In this PBL, the teacher will determine
the historic periods and let groups
choose from among them to avoid
duplication. Students will identify
foundational works from the period and
read 2-3 works. Students will prepare a
presentation to make classmates familiar
with works of that time period.
Students create a multimedia
presentation focusing on the
literature of a specific historical
time period.
12th Grade Informational Writing
Rubric, MLA or Chicago citation
protocol, Collaboration Rubric,
Research Rubric
No. of
Unit Lessons
Title
Readings
Writing Tasks
Students will write an abstract for
a seminal United States
informational text from each
century (total of 5), written
reflection on learning
Media Literacy
8
PBL
Research Writing: Past - Forward to
the Future
Students read a variety of seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century
United States documents. Sustained Silent Reading
with students reading books of their choice is
recommended to occur daily for 10-15 minutes.
Suggested Readings: T. H. White's Once and Future
King (King Arthur Legends - Merlin's lessons as a
boy prepares Arthur for life of a king).
9
PBL
Community Service: Save the Future
Students read information from a variety of
Students will write a proposal for Students will view the Student
websites as they research school or community
a community or school service
United Way Commercial PSA
projects on which to create their proposal.
project.
found on YouTube.
Sustained Silent Reading with students reading
books of their choice is recommended to occur
daily for 10-15 minutes. Suggested Readings: Kate
Chopin's Story of the Hour ; Mitch Albom's
Tuesdays with Morrie.
10
6
Portfolio Presentation: The Real World Suggested Reading: Isaac Asimov's The Machine
that Won the War ; Edith Hamilton's Mythology ;
Barbara Kinsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
Suggested Readings cited on this page
are just that, suggestions from a
couple teachers in the field. All English
12 CR teachers are told to select
Readings from the suggested list
provided by the authors of the
Common Core State Standards for the
11th-CCR Common Core Band. These
are found at
http://www.corestandards.org/assets
/Appendix_B.pdf. WVDE does not
have a mandated reading list; WV is a
local control state.
Formative Assessments
Summative Assessment
Students develop a multimedia Collaborative discussions, teacher Presentation Rubric, Abstract
presentation on a US document. observations, practice
Checklist, Collaboration Rubric,
They view and listen to a variety presentations
Discussion Rubric
of speeches.
Create a portfolio of artifacts
Use of electronic portfolios
from the English 12 CR course
and write a relfection for each of
the artifacts chosen. They will
complete a job application.
Notes on Unit
This PBL has students reading a variety
of US documents from the 17th-21st
centuries, writing an abstract for one
from each century, and creating a media
presentation.
Collaborative discussions, teacher Presentation Rubric,
observations, practice
Collaboration Rubric,
presentations
Informational Writing Rubric,
PowerPoint Rubric,
Appropriateness of Sources
Rubric
This PBL focuses on a community or
school service project that students will
ultimately use to complete their senior
portfolios, ideally making them more
desirable candidates for post-secondary
school work or schooling. As a group,
seniors will write a project proposal as
well as create a media presentation
representative of the proposal. As an
individual product, students will write a
reflection, assessing what they learned
from using their skills to contribute to
their community.
Question Formulation Technique, 12th Grade Argumentative
conferencing with the teacher,
Writing Rubric, Presentation
peer evaluation
Rubric, Instructional Speaking
Rubric
In this unit students will create a
portfolio to showcase products from the
English 12 CR course. They will
participate in an interview for
employment or accepatance into
college.