English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
1 Ongoing Independent Reading
Resources for Teaching Advanced
Students: Reading Instruction for the
Advanced Classroom, 3-6; Reading Log
Copymaster, 12; Metacognitive
Strategies, 16-19
Daily Language Activities: Critical
Reading Section, 24 transparencies
Workshop Resources—Writing, Listening,
and Speaking: Presenting a Literary
Response, 44-49
TE: Presenting a Literary Response, 692693
Holt Assessment—Writing, Listening, and
Speaking: “Scales and Sample Papers:
Response to Literature,” 90-98
BLM
See Blackboard,
“Reading: SSR”
for BLMs of
reading logs and
other SSR
documents
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Reading Skills and Strategies, 15-16
Reading Process, 546-547
Reading Log, 991
Quick Reference Handbook: Reading,
988-998
Reading Process,
36-43
Reading Actively, 4952
Supplementary Materials
See LCC, English III, page 95 for a list
of recommended novels for this grade
level
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/freshengl
ish/bookreportideas.html “91 Ways to
Respond Literature”
Transparencies: Your Reading
Process, 1-4
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Strategies for Helping
Struggling Readers; Developing
Critical Thinking about Literature
Gallagher, Kelly. Deeper Reading.
(Stenhouse, 2004). A rich resource for
practical reading strategies
Pilgreen, Janice L. The SSR
Handbook: How to Organize and
Manage a Sustained Silent Reading
Program. (Boyton/Cook, 2000).
Steineke, Nancy. Reading and Writing
Together: Collaborative Literacy in
Action. (Heinemann, 2002)
2 Ongoing Vocabulary Study
Daily Language Activities: Vocabulary
Section, 50 transparencies; Analogy
Section, 25 transparencies
Vocabulary Development: Collection 4,
21,22, 23, 24, 28,
PowerNotes: Handbook to Literary Terms
Resources for Teaching Advanced
Students:
“Handbook of Literary Concepts, ” 229240; “Handbook of Rhetorical
Concepts,”
241-243; “Word Banks,” 248
Holt MindPoint® Quiz Show CD for
vocabulary practice in game format
Brozo in CLSD for the LCC: “Vocabulary
Checklist of
Common Errors,
1;
Vocabulary Cards
for Lincoln’s
Address, 24
Vocabulary Strategies, 559, 560, 575,
600, 601, 607, 646, 688, 689, 728,
729, 774, 775, 827, 828, 869, 887,
907, 918, 1037-1038
Word Choice, 729, 775, 828, 907,
1000-1003
Related Word Forms, 688, 728, 827,
1000, 1004-1007
Analogous Statements, 601, 607, 775,
918, 1037-1038
Quick Reference Handbook:
Vocabulary, 999-1009
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Effective Vocabulary
Instruction
1
Improving
Vocabulary: 659
Word Families: 676
Word Roots: 762
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/
lesson_view.asp?id=20 (Using a Word
Journal to Create a Personal
Dictionary)
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_
images/lesson20/powerpoint.pdf link
to handout on Powerpoint from above
lesson.
http://www.mw.com/info/new_words.htm Merriam
Webster’s Online Dictionary to
identify new words
Allen, Janet. Inside Words.
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
BLM
Cards,” 26; “Vocabulary SelfAwareness,” 27; “Word Grid,” 28
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Six Traits: Word Choice, 11-13, 104105
Word Sharp: Context Clues:
Synonym, Antonym, Contrast,
Comparison, Example, Restatement;
Word Structure: Prefixes, Latin Roots,
Greek and Anglo-Saxon Roots,
Suffixes
Vocabulary Workshop: Making New
Words Your Own (word attack
strategies),1ff.; Connecting New
Words and Patterns (analogies), 123ff.;
Reading New Words in Context
(context clues), 141ff.; Vocabulary
Words, 233-234
Writing Strategies & Applications,
Writer’s notebook, 1076
Informal Writing to Learn: Reading
Log, 991; Graphic Organizers, 10681069; Outlines, 1071; Prewriting
Techniques, 1073-1076.
3 Ongoing Writing Prompts
Powernotes: Collection 3, Quickwrites,
slide 1; Collection 4, slides 1-2 Brozo in
CLSD for the LCC: QtA (Questioning the
Author), 12
Holt Assessment—Writing, Listening, and
Speaking: Portfolio Assessment, 121-161
(Stenhouse, 2007). Practical strategies
for teaching vocabulary that work up
and down the curriculum
Connect to Reading:
41
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/
lesson_view.asp?id=902 “Draft
letters,” for students to think critically
about major writing assignments.
Students write letters of reflection to
share with a peer before completing
the final draft.
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/brilst
ar/plans/giggey_rubricjournal.pdf class
journal rubric
www.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?filetick
et=uoPeZcLNN30%3D&tabid=2089&
mid=4762
another journal rubric
Reading for Tests,
596-637
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/
lesson_view.asp?id=1091 “Analyzing
Grammar Pet Peeves”
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/reso
urce/677/01/
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
http://content1.docstoc.com/flash/Usin
Teaching Strategies for English
Language Learners: Think as a Writer,
2; prompts in Ch. 21-29
Writing Notes DVD
Think as a Writer: Interactive Writing
Worktext, prompts in Ch. 21-29
4 Ongoing Grammar Study
Daily Language Activities: Proofreading
Warmups Section, 27 transparencies;
Sentence Combining Section, 15
transparencies
Resources for Teaching Advanced
Students:
Checklist of
Common Errors,
1
Grammar, 47-139; Usage, 140-313;
Mechanics, 314-477
Commas, 338-363
Diction, 575, 618-619, 842-843, 930933
Quotation Marks, 379-387
Parallel Structure, 486-487, 1099
2
Supplementary Materials
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
“Handbook of Grammatical Concepts, ”
244-247
Powernotes: Proofreading warm-ups, 12
slides
Holt Virtual File Cabinet: grammar pages
for Practice, Remediation, Assessment,
Review, and Enrichment
TE: Taking the SAT and the ACT, LA19LA32; Test Smarts, 1395
5 The Autobiography of Frederick
Douglass
TE: 462-470; “from My Bondage and My
Freedom,” 478; Meet the Writer:
Frederick Douglass, 463; “from
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass,” 465
Holt Reading Solutions: Alternative
Lesson Plans, 127; Adapted Reading,
365; Vocabulary and Comprehension
(copying
master), 131
BLM
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Passive/Active Voice, 240-244
Sentence Clarity, 480-497
Sentence Combining, 498-508, 706708
Style, 510-514, 574-575, 661-663,
618-619, 807-809, 842-843, 886-887,
931-933
g%20Quotations.swf Flash-based
overview of quotations
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/
lesson_view.asp?id=248
“Manipulating Sentences to Reinforce
Grammar”
http://www.docstyles.com/mlaquick.ht
m quick reference to MLA style
http://www.collegeboard.org Students
can sign up to have a daily SAT
question delivered to their emailboxes. Other invaluable resources
for college are available here.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/gram
mar/
student guide to grammar and writing
http://www.testprepreview.com/ free
practice tests for ACT, SAT, MCAT,
LSAT, etc.
http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/i
ndex.html for ACT preparation
Grammar Notes DVD, Lesson 11
(passive/active voice), Lesson 30
(strong verbs)
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Teaching Grammar in
Context
Transparencies: Proofreading
Warmups, Sentence Combining
Six Traits: Sentence Fluency, 14, 106112; Conventions, 17,113-118
Thinking as a Writer: Interactive
Grammar Worktext: Sections 1, 2, 3
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics:
Language Skills Practice, Ch. 1-14, 16
Developmental Language Skills: Ch.
1-14, 16
Preparing for the SAT and ACT
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Teaching Narrative
and Expository Texts
3
Supplementary Materials
Biographies, 702
Organization of, 204205
Reading strategies,
199
Outlining, 208
Autobiographies, 210
Memoirs-synthesizing, 214-215
Note-taking, 718-719
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/d
ouglass.html an e-text of Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass5
5/menu.html e-text of My Bondage
and My Freedom
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
BLM
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Supplementary Materials
Resources for Teaching Advanced
Students,
Alternative Lesson Plans, 126
PowerNotes: Collection 4, “Narrative of
the
Life”
The Holt Reader: “from Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass,” 162
Holt Adapted Reader: Adapted Reading
(with apparatus), 112; Graphic
Organizer—Metaphor, 117
Audio CD Library, disc 9
Vocabulary Development: 21
Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and
Vocabulary, “from Narrative of the Life
of
Frederick Douglass,” 155
Fine Art Transparencies: Transparency 8;
Teaching Notes, Worksheets, and
Answer
Key, 23
6 Comparing/Contrasting
Autobiographies
TE: “from Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl,” 472; Meet the Writer: Harriet A.
Jacobs, 471; Introducing Political Points
of View: Slavery, 462; “from Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl,” 473
Holt Reading Solutions: Making
Inferences, 248; Summarizing, 254;
Comparing and Contrasting, 290
Resources for Teaching Advanced
Students: Word Banks—Tone, 270; Style,
271; Mood, 271
Audio CD Library, disc 9
Vocabulary Development, 22
Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and
FranklinDouglass Graphic
Organizer, 21;
Composition
Rubric for
Comparing
Autobiographies,
22
Autobiographical Narrative, 549-585
Descriptive details, 550, 557
Structure of a composition, 527-540
Compositions, 1061-1064
Writing Notes DVD, NarrationDescription, Lesson 14
Think as a Writer: Interactive Writing
WorkText, Ch. 21
Teaching Strategies for English
Language Learners, Ch. 21
Transparencies, 10-12; Daily Writing
Transparencies 8-14 (voice)
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Teaching Students to
Revise, Not Recopy
4
Focus on Comparing
and Contrasting, 359365
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jac
obs.html e-text of Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl, another slave narrative
for comparison to Douglass and
Franklin, if desired
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
BLM
Vocabulary, “from Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl,” 158
7 The Language of Spirituals
TE: spirituals, 480-482
Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and
Vocabulary, “from My Bondage and My
Freedom”; “Go Down, Moses”; “Follow
the Drinking Gourd”; “Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot”; “The Most Remarkable
Woman Of This Age,” 161
Audio CD Library Disc 9, selections 5, 6, 7
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Supplementary Materials
Six Traits for Writing, 8-10
Analyzing the
Refrain in a
Spiritual, 23
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson
_plan.asp?id=318 “Spirituals”
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South
Summary notes, 719,
754
Summarizing for news
stories, 190-191
Author’s Purpose,
251, 725
Reading a News story,
181
8 Life during the Civil War Period
through Photos, Journals, and Letters
TE: “Letter to His Son,” 511; “Letter to
Sarah Ballou,” 513; “from A Diary from
Dixie,” 515; Reteaching Lessons- Irony,
Tone, and Author’s Style, 1329L-M
Holt Reading Solutions: Making
Inferences, 248; Summarizing, 254
9 The Women’s Movement and
Sojourner Truth
5
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98
/brady/home.html Photographs by
Matthew Brady
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwpht
ml/cwphome.html Civil War
photographs
http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Documenting
the American South
http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_
Documents.htm primary documents
from the Civil War
http://www.archives.gov/education/ind
ex.html National Archives lesson
plans, with links to primary
documents—photos, letters, etc.
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
index of newspapers online
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/
newspapers in English from all over
the world
http://www.sojournertruth.org/History/
Biography/Default.htm Photographs
http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/sojou
rner.html text of “Arn’t I a Woman?”
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
10 Fiction of the Civil War
TE: “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”
489-497; “A Mystery of Heroism,” 498507; Meet the Writer: Stephen Crane,
499;
Introducing Political Points of View: The
Civil War, 498; “War Is Kind,” 509;Meet
the Writer: Ambrose Bierce, 488;
Reteaching Theme and Meaning,
1361M-N; Reteaching Patterns of
Organization, 1361D
The Holt Reader: “A Mystery of
Heroism,” 173
Holt Adapted Reader: Adapted Reading
(with apparatus), 118 (“A Mystery of
Heroism”); Graphic Organizer:
Situational Irony, 123; Adapted Reading
(with apparatus), 130; Graphic Organizer:
Cause and Effect, 137
Resources for Teaching Advanced
Students: Word Banks—Tone, 270; Style,
271; Mood, 271; Character, 272
BLM
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Quotations: citing sources of, 735;
incorporating, 745-747, 799;
notetaking and, 786
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Strategies for Helping
Struggling Readers; Using Literature
Circles
Holt Reading Solutions:
Understanding Characters, 266-271
Recognizing Theme, 272-277
Understanding Figurative Language,
278-283; Alternative Lesson
Plans; 132; Adapted Reading: “A
Mystery
of Heroism,” 368; Vocabulary and
Comprehension (copying master), 136
Additional Vocabulary Practice (copying
master), 137; Adapted Reading, 372
Audio CD Library, disc 10, 12
Vocabulary Development: 23
(“Occurrence”); 24 (“A Mystery of
Heroism”)
Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and
6
Reader’s
Handbook
Supplementary Materials
Reading a Short Story,
237
Elements of Fiction,
366
Focus on:
Plot, 313-322;
Setting, 323- 331;
Characters, 332-344;
Theme, 345-350;
Dialogue, 351-358;
C/C, 359
Killer Angels is available from
Random House/Ballantine Books.
ISBN: 0345348109
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
BLM
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
Reader’s
Handbook
Supplementary Materials
Vocabulary, “A Mystery of Heroism”;
“War Is Kind,” 167; “An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge,” 164
Fine Art Transparencies: Transparency 9
(for “A Mystery of Heroism”); Teaching
Notes, Worksheets, and Answer Key (for
“A Mystery of Heroism”), 26;
Transparency 10, Teaching Notes,
Worksheets, and Answer Key, 29
PowerNotes: Collection 4, “Bridge”;
Heroism”
Brozo in CLSD for the LCC: SPAWN
11 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
TE: 514
Vocabulary Cards
for Lincoln’s
Address, 24
Holt Professional Learning for
Language Arts: Teaching Narrative
and Expository Texts
Focus on Speeches,
239
Evaluating the
Speech, 244
12 The Poetry of Walt Whitman
TE: Meet the Writer: Walt Whitman, 360
“I Hear America Singing,” 364; from
Song of Myself—Numbers 10, 33, 52; “A
Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and
Dim,” 375; Primary Source--“from
Speciman Days” (journal), 377;
Connection: “from Hospital Sketches,”
379; from Song of Myself—Number 6,
415-416; “When I Heard the Learn’d
Astronomer,” 417; “A Noiseless Patient
Spider,” 418
Holt Reading Solutions: Alternative
Lesson Plans, “I Hear America Singing”
105; Vocabulary and Comprehension
(copying master) 107; Alternative Lesson
Plans, 108; “from Song of Myself,
Number 10,” 368; “from Song of Myself,
Number 33,” 370; Adapted Reading:
“from Song of Myself: 10 Alone far in
Analyzing
Whitman’s
Poetry, 25;
Composition
Rubric for
Whitman, 26
Support for literary analysis, 726-727
Quotations: citing sources of, 735;
incorporating, 745-747, 799;
notetaking and, 786
Evaluating Web Sites, 813-816
Reading Poetry, 387
Poetry: Focus on:
Language, 400;
Meaning, 408;
Sound and Structure,
415;
Elements of Poetry,
423
Writing and Researching in a Digital
Age DVD, 15 lessons
Think as a Writer: Interactive Writing
WorkText, Ch. 26
Transparencies, 25-27
WritingNotes DVD, Lesson 18
Teaching Strategies for English
Language Learners, Ch. 26
7
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_
images/lesson885/gettysburg-webresources.html
for background, transcript, and reading
of the speech
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.co
m/home/ aboutus.cfm OR
http://www.history.com for video
biography
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammen/c
ollections/whitmanhome
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/
whitman.htm
http://www.waltwhitman.org
English III—Unit 4: The Civil War Period
Holt Elements of Literature
BLM
LPSS—updated Summer 2009
Elements of Language
the wilds,” 351; “from Song of Myself:
33 I understand the large hearts of
heroes,” 353; Vocabulary and
Comprehension (copying master), 112;
Additional Vocabulary Practice (copying
master),113; Adapted Reading, 358
The Holt Reader: “I Hear America
Singing,” 128; “from Song of Myself,
Number 33,” 131; “from Song of Myself,
Number 52,” 136
Holt Adapted Reader: Adapted Reading
(with apparatus), 90; Graphic
Organizer—Free Verse, 99; Adapted
Reading (with apparatus), 90; Graphic
Organizer—Free Verse, 99
Holt Assessment: Literature, Reading, and
Vocabulary, “A Sight in Camp in the
Daybreak Gray and Dim,” “from
Specimen Days,” “from Hospital
Sketches,” 132; “I Hear America
Singing,” 123; “from Song of Myself,
Numbers 10 and 33,” 126; “from Song
of Myself, Number 52,” 129
Fine Art Transparencies: Transparency 6;
Teaching Notes, Worksheets, and
Answer Key, 17
Audio CD Library, disc 8
PowerNotes: Collection 3, “I Hear
America” (focus on catalogue); “Song of
Myself” (focus on comparing themes);
Historical Introduction—American
Masters Whitman and Dickinson
Visual Connections: Segment 5,
“American Dreamers, Part 1”; Segment 6
“Poetry: Life in Language” Segment 7,
“Favorite Poetry Project: ‘Song of
Myself’
8
Reader’s
Handbook
Supplementary Materials