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Curriculum Map
Course Title: English 10
Quarter 1:
Academic Year: 2012-13
Essential Questions for this Quarter 1:
1. How does a reader make sense of a text? 2. How do figurative language, literary devices, language, and diction influence the reader’s
response to the text? 3. What are the components of a narrative? 4. How does vocabulary influence my communication abilities in both written
and verbal form? 5. How does use of standard English change audience perception of the communicator’s ideas? 6. How do details help to
engage the reader, empowering our writing and enhancing our ability to read critically? 7. Do we see ourselves, our culture, and others more
clearly through our encounters with fictional characters?
Unit/Time Frame
Unit 1 Short Fiction
“Horror/Suspense”
Unit 2 Poetry
“…a Box of
Chocolates”
Vocabulary
Weekly
 Roots
 Words
Language
Complete Sentences
 Run-ons
(ways to
connect)
Semicolons
Colons
Standards
Content
Short Story
allusion
antagonist
characterization
conflict
man vs.
man
man vs. self
W1(10.5.4;10.4.13) man vs.
W2(10.4.3;10.5.3)
environment
W3(10.4.3;10.5.1)
dialogue
W4(10.4.2;10.5.8)
diction
W5(10.4.10;10.4.11; flashback
10.4.12)
foreW6(10.4.9)
shadowing
W7(10.4.6;10.5.9)
inference
W8(10.4.4; 10.4.6;
irony
10.4.7)
dramatic
10.4.8;10.5.9)
W9(10.4.5; 10.5.2
situational
W10(10.5.8)
verbal
L1(10.6.1;10.6.2)
mood
L2 (10.6.3;10.6.1)
narrator
L3(10.6.4)
personRL1
RL2(10.3.2;10.3.5)
RL3(10.3.3)
RL4(10.3.11)
RL5(10.3.6)
RL6
RL7
RL9
Skills
1. Reading text
2. Making predictions,
assumptions, and
inferences about the
characters and the plot
3. Analyzing the text for
author’s purpose, style,
and voice
4. Defining literary terms
5. Connecting with reading
through shared personal
experiences and current
events
6. Drafting & writing
personal narratives
7. Comparing/contrasting
narratives
8. Analyze concepts specific
to narratives, such as
irony, climax, point of
view, and symbolism
9. Interpret and analyze
universal themes
Assessment
1. Written responses
to reading
1. Quizzes on
comprehension
2. Compose short
fictional narrative
3. Unit exams
4. Online and
classroom
discussion
5. Study guides
6. Choice of projects
7. Paraphrasing
selections of text
1. Online lesson
completion
2. Worksheets
3. Crosswords
4. Weekly quizzes
5. Unit exams
Resources
1. Short Stories
“The Birds”
“One of the Missing”
“The Landlady”
“Lamb to the
Slaughter”
“Desiree’s Baby”
“The Leopard Man’s
Story”
“The Interlopers”
“The Snake”
“The Black Cat”
“The Possibility of Evil”
“Button, Button”
“The Monkey’s Paw”
“The Lottery”
“Harrison Bergeron”
“Fan Club”
“A Kind of Murder”
2. Poetry
“Porphyria’s Lover
Shakespeare’s
Sonnets
“The Passionate to his
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Comma &
FANBOYS
Dependent
clauses
Conjunctive
adverbs
Fragments
Dialogue
Writing
Letter of Introduction/
Description
Short Story Analysis
Poetry
Research: Author
and Style /Voice
Research
Presentation:
Historical Fiction
L4(10.1.2)
L5(10.1.4)
L6(Standard 1)
SL1
SL2
SL3
SL4
SL5
SL6
ification
plot diagram
exposition
inciting
incident
rising
action
climax
denouement
point of view
first
person
third
person
limited
omniscient
10. Summarize main ideas in
stories
11. Explain significance of
ideas in narratives
12. Draw on prior experience
and reading fiction to
increase self awareness
1. Define words and roots
2. Use words both literally
and figuratively
3. Interpret words in the
context they are used
4. Determine meaning by
origin
1. Identify and correct run-on
sentences
2. Identify and correct
sentence fragment
omniscient
objective
protagonist
setting
style
symbolism
theme
tone
voice
Poetry
alliteration
assonance
blank verse
dramatic
1. Demonstrate proper use
of standard English when
writing
2. Demonstrate an ability to
compose correctly formed
sentences.
3. Demonstrate proper
paragraph and
composition development.
1. Daily sentence
corrections
2. Worksheets
3. Unit exam
4. “Grammar Bytes” online
practice
Shepherd”
“The Nymph’s Reply to
the Shepherd”
“I carry your heart”
“Mother to Son”
“To His Coy Mistress”
“Johnny Armstrong”
“Courage”
“Miss Rosie”
Twenty-third Psalm
Genesis I & Genesis II
“The Creation”
“Tomorrow…” Macbeth
“What a piece of work
is man…” Hamlet
“Dreams”
“Dream Deferred”
“A Black Man Talks of
Reaping”
“Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening”
“She Sweeps with
Many-Colored
Brooms”
“Because I could not
stop for Death”
From Holy Sonnets by
John Donne, # 7,10,14
“George Gray”
“The Choice”
“The Corner”
“Foul Shot”
“Jazz Fantasia”
six-word memoirs
“Satchel Paige”
“All I Wanna Do”
3. McDougalLittell, IN --10th
Grade Text:
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monologue
elegy
eulogy
epitaph
genre
imagery
metaphor
meter
narrator
onomatopoeia
personification
poetic
license
rhyme
rhythm
satire
simile
soliloquy
style
symbol
theme
tone
voice
letters
heading
inside
address
salutation
closing
introduction
body
conclusion
paragraph
imagery
MLA
bibliography
4. Study Guides
for all readings
5. Graphic
Organizers for
selected
readings
6. Venn diagram
7. English 10
Vocabulary
Workbook
8. McDougalLittell Grammar
for Writing
9. Write Source
Grammar
workbook
10. Dept. of
Education Root
Word list
11. Task-specific
Worksheets for
grammar
12. Moodle online
quiz
13. Moodle
enrichment
activities
14. Written section
of vocabulary
quiz, Honors
and modified
15. Crossword
puzzle
generator
16. Six-Word
Memoir
anticipation
video
17. “The Lottery”
anticipation
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video
18. “The Birds”
anticipation
video
19. “Button,
Button”
anticipation
guide trailer
20. MediaSmart
“suspense”
section
21. Audio links for
selected stories