English CP 10
Ms. Grondolsky
Angela’ s Ashes Syllabus 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
8
Begin Angela’s Ashes
• Reading Check
• Close-reading
assessment on
chapter 1
Intro Vocab Unit 4
Thursday
Friday
9
10
Review Cold Read
Assessment –
discuss tone of
beginning of memoir
Work on Family Tree
Work on character
chart
Begin examination of
historical background and its
influence on Irish
attitudes
HW: Vocab Unit 4 cards/exercises – due Monday; AA Ch. 2 due Tuesday
13
Review vocab 4 ex.
Continue with work
chapter 1 – examine
the narrator’s voice
and use of irony
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 2
20
14
15
16
Angela’s Ashes – Ch.
2; Review key plot
components and then
work with closereading passages
(focus on purpose,
tone, character dev.)
HW: Review for
midterm ☺
HW: Study for Vocab
Quiz
23
24
Per 4C5A: 9:30 – 10:45
Period 6: 8:00 – 9:15
Period 7: 9:30 – 10:45
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3; Focus on tone/
characterization as
they contribute to
the shaping of an
idea through the text
Ch. 4
Ch. 5
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 3
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 4
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 5
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 6-7
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5
6
7
Angela’s Ashes –
Ch. 6-7
Ch. 8
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 8
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 6-7
Martin
Luther
King, Jr.
Day
27
Teacher
Records
Day:
No School
for Students
21
Review work for
midterm
Vocab
Unit 4 Quiz
22
17
Review work for
midterm
Midterm Exams
HW: Review for
midterm ☺
28
Return and review
midterms
Intro Vocab Unit 5
Vocab
Unit 5 Quiz
HW: Study for Unit 5
vocab quiz
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 9
Ch. 9
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Chapter 10
10
Angela’s Ashes –
11
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Angela’s Ashes –
Ch. 10
Ch. 11-14 passages
Ch. 15, 309-18
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Ch. 15 p. 309-18
17
Presidents’
Day:
No School
18
Angela s Ashes –
Cold-Read
Asssessment
19
Naviance:
Meet with
Guidance Counselors
HW: Finish Angela’s
Ashes
13
14
Intro vocab unit 6
Catch-up Day
HW: Vocab Unit 6
cards/exercises (due
2/20)
HW: Read Angela’s
Ashes Ch. 16 for coldread assessment
20
21
Review vocab 6
cards/exercises
Discuss end of
memoir
Begin Angela’s Ashes
Film – focus on how
the story told in a
different medium
reshapes the original
work
HW: Study for vocab
quiz (Monday)
Standards & Skills – English Language Arts – Reading – Informational Text
• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined
by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
• Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are
introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the
cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
• Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text
(e.g., a section or chapter).