Lakewood High School English I Advanced
READING COMPLEX TEXTS
RL/RI.9.10
WRITING TO TEXTS
W.9.1-6, 9-10, RL/RI.9.1-10
RESEARCH PROJECT
W.9.1, 4-9,
RL/RI.9.1-10
1 Extended Text
3-5 Short Texts
Routine Writing
4-6 Analyses
1 Narrative
1 Research Project
Literature: The Odyssey
Literature (2-3)
Develop & convey
understanding
Focus on arguments
Convey experiences, events
and/or procedures
Integrate knowledge from
sources when composing
Blogs/Journals,
Reading Quizzes,
Socratic Seminar
My Papa's Waltz intro
to analysis; 4-6
Analyses of walking
and self-reflection;
Road Not Taken
commercial analysis;
Character analysis: Is
Odysseus a Hero?
Narrative Essay
Archetype Poster
Project
Develop & convey
understanding
Focus on informing and
explaining
Convey experiences, events
and/or procedures
Integrate knowledge from
sources when composing
Quarter 1 Theme:
Who are you as an
individual? What is
your journey?
Informational: Romeo and
Juliet
Quarter 2 Theme:
How does your
immediate social
network (i.e. family
and friends) impact
your sense of self?
World Literature: Of Mice and
Men and The Laramie Project
Quarter 3 Theme: How
does your community
impact your sense of self?
Does your community
define you or do you define
your community?
Informational: To Kill A
Mockingbird
Quarter 4 Theme:
What needs in your
community need to
be addressed? How
can you become an
up-stander in your
own community?
Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud," Atwood's "Siren Song" and The
Penelopiad (excerpts)
Informational Texts (1-2)
Nicholson's The History of
Walking, Thoreau's "Walking;"
Archetype Exploration,
Campbell's The Hero with a
Thousand Faces,
Whitman's "Song of Myself"
(excerpts) Shay's Odysseus in
America: Combat Trauma and
the Trials of Homecoming
Literature (2-3)
Collier's "The Chaser," Ovid's "Pyramus
& Thisbe," Neruda's "Your Laughter,"
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18," St. Vincent
Millay's "What Lips my Lips have Kissed"
Blogs/Journals,
Reading Quizzes
Informational Texts (1-2)
Shakespeare in the Classroom
Video, Capellanus's "The Art of
Courtly Love, Intro to Drama
and The Globe Theater, Italian
Family Feuds
Literature (2-3)
Years of Dust, Burns' "To A
Mouse," Trevor Short Film
Informational Texts (1-2)
A Rose for Charlie, Laramie
Project Film (excerpts),
Allport's Scale of Prejudice,
Literature (2-3)
Holiday's "Strange Fruit,"
Deutsch's "Ape," Dunbar's
"Sympathy" & "We Wear the
Mask," Angelou's "I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings"
US Historical Docs (1-2)
Scottsboro: An American
Tragedy, Obama's Speech at
50th Anniversary of March on
Washington, MLK's Letter from
Birmingham Jail, Peacolia
Barge Interview
Rhetorical devices in
Writing from
advertising; Love at Character Perspective
first sight in R&J;
Responsibility in R&J;
Gender roles in R&J;
R&J scene analysis
Romeo and Juliet
Prompt Book
Develop & convey
understanding
Focus on informing and
explaining
Convey experiences, events
and/or procedures
Integrate knowledge from
sources when composing
Blogs/Journals,
Reading Quizzes,
Socratic Seminar
"To a Mouse" Analysis;
Literary Analysis: OMAM
Student Choice; Trevor
film analysis;
Compare/Contrast
Laramie Project play vs.
film scene analysis
Persona Poem:
Laramie Project
character
Research OMAM
Literary Criticism and
embed within literary
analysis
Develop & convey
understanding
Focus on arguments
Convey experiences, events
and/or procedures
Integrate knowledge from
sources when composing
Blogs/Journals,
Reading Quizzes
Analyze a problem in your
community project; TKAM
symbolism and theme
analysis; "Strange Fruit"
analysis; "We Wear the
Mask"analysis; Obama
speech analysis; "Letter
from Birmingham Jail"
analysis
Develop a possible
solution to the
community problem
you identified
Life in the 1930s
Research Project
Lakewood High School English I Advanced
FOR READING AND WRITING IN EACH QUARTER
Cite Evidence
RL/RI.9.1
Analyze Content
RL/RI.9.2-9, SL9.2-3
Study/Apply Grammar
L.9.1-3, SL.9.6
Study/Apply Vocab
L.9.4-6
Conduct Discussions
SL.9.1
Report Findings
SL.9.4-6
Ticket Assignment,
prewriting graphic
organizer, writing
assignments
Writing assignments;
class discussions
Glencoe Grammar &
Language Grade 10:
Assorted Lessons
Townsend Press
Improving
Vocabulary: Chapters
1-7
Socratic Seminars
Writing assignments;
presentations
Writing assignments
Writing assignments;
class discussions
Glencoe Grammar &
Language Grade 10:
Assorted Lessons
Townsend Press
Improving
Vocabulary: Chapters
8-15
Socratic Seminars
Writing assignments;
presentations
Writing assignments
Writing assignments;
class discussions
Glencoe Grammar &
Language Grade 10:
Assorted Lessons
Townsend Press
Improving
Vocabulary: Chapters
16-22
Socratic Seminars
Writing assignments;
presentations
Writing assignments
Writing assignments;
class discussions
Glencoe Grammar &
Language Grade 10:
Assorted Lessons
Townsend Press
Improving
Vocabulary: Chapters
23-30
Socratic Seminars
Writing assignments;
presentations