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Accelerated English 11 Course Map
Course Description: Students engage in the study of classic and contemporary American literature, college preparatory vocabulary, and SAT strategies. Emphasis is
placed on the writing process; modes include narratives, informational papers, and persuasive essays including literary analyses. Through reading, speaking, thinking,
listening, and writing, students (1) sharpen their awareness of language and their understanding of the writer’s craft; (2) develop critical standards for the
independent evaluation of literary works; (3) develop a sense of how style, structure, subject, purpose, and audience are related; (4) state, organize, and develop ideas
in clear and coherent essays; (5) develop a writing style of their own adaptable to different writing occasions.
Enduring Understandings
Content
Skills/Competencies
Summative Assessments
Students will understand that:
Students will know:
Students will be able to:
Methods for students to
demonstrate their levels of
 Print, phonological and
Overarching Concepts:
Unit 1: The American Dream
proficiency:
phonemic awareness, word
recognition, and fluency are
 Literary terms and devices
 Develop a working definition of The
Unit 1: The American Dream
foundational skills necessary to
American Dream
 Grammar and usage
the development of effective
 Embedded Assessment 1:
 Identify the philosophical, religious,
 The writing process
readers.
Survey Findings
ethical,
and
social
influences
that
 Reading strategies
 Deep understanding of
shaped the literature of a period
 Embedded Assessment 2:
 Research
informational text can be
Argumentative Essay

Recognize
purpose
and
historical
 Journaling
accomplished through the
context in varied sources
 Writing Workshop 1: The
 Portfolio production
acquisition of a vast vocabulary,
Writing Process

Examine
a
single
topic
from
multiple
 Fiction
use of comprehension strategies
points
of
view

Writing Workshop 6:
 Non-fiction
when reading, and development
Expository Writing
 Develop an expository text that
 Poetry
of the skills needed for using
defines
an
abstract
concept

End-of-Unit Assessment
 Drama
textual evidence to make
connections among ideas and
Unit 2: American Forums: The
Unit 2: American Forums: The
Unit 1: The American Dream
between texts.
Marketplace
of
Ideas
Marketplace of Ideas
 American Philosophy
 Deep understanding of literature
 Make text-to-text connections
 Embedded Assessment 1:
 American Virtues
can be accomplished through
Op-Ed page

Use
textual
evidence
as
the
basis
for
 Survey techniques
the acquisition of a vast
inferences
 Embedded Assessment 2:
 Expository writing
vocabulary, use of
Satirical Piece

Identify
the
elements
of
 Perspectives of the American
comprehension strategies when
argumentation
 Writing Workshop 2:
Dream
reading, and development of the
Short Story

Develop
a
working
hypothesis
when
 Elements of argumentation
skills needed for using textual
researching
and
writing

Writing Workshop 8:
 Independent reading- Biography
evidence to make connections
Persuasive Writing
 Use varied reading strategies to
among ideas and between texts.
understand
multiple
genres

End-of-Unit Assessment
Unit 2: American Forums: The
 Writing includes the ability to
 Research and collect topical
Marketplace of Ideas
share information, support an
Unit 3: Power of Persuasion
information to generate and
 Fallacies
argument, and tell a story as
develop focused positions
 Embedded Assessment 1:
 Debate
well as the ability to engage in
Persuasive Speech
 Satire
evidence-based analysis of text
Unit 3: Power of Persuasion
 Embedded Assessment 2:
 Editorials
and research.
 Utilize elements of persuasion
Dramatic Scene
 Rhetorical devices
 Acquisition of effective
 Read and interpret a historical
 Writing Workshop 3:
 Writing
communication skills permits
document
Poetry
-Editorial
individuals to speak
 Make predictions
 Writing Workshop 5:
appropriately with and respond
intelligently to others.


-Op Ed
-Satire
Types of evidence
Independent reading- Satire
Unit 3: Power of Persuasion
 Rhetorical devices
 Rhetorical appeals
 Inaugural addresses
 Puritan history
 Visualization techniques
 Oral speeches
 Script writing
 Independent reading- Non-fiction
Unit 4: An American Journey
 Oral tradition
 Harlem Renaissance history
 Tal tales
 Frame story
 Film productions
 Verbal communication skills
 Non-verbal communication skills
 Writing
-Resume/Cover letter
-Analytical
-Reflective
 Independent reading- Drama
Unit 5: The Pursuit of Happiness
 Elements of style
 Transcendentalism
 Credo
 Rhetorical devices
 Biography
 Cartoons
 Characterization
 Writing
-Personal essay
-Research paper
 Independent reading- Memoir


Identify characteristics of setting
and time period
Analyze a writing prompt and plan a
response

Script Writing
End-of-Unit Assessment
Unit 4: An American Journey
 Embedded Assessment 1:
Unit 4: An American Journey
Analytical Essay
 Make a connection between
 Embedded Assessment 2:
elements of style and/or literary
Self Presentation
elements and the identified theme
 Writing Workshop 7:
 Use the writing process to produce
College Application
an organized and coherent essay
 Writing Workshop 9:
Response to literary and
 Analyze an author’s characterization
expository text
 Discuss how symbols, images,
diction, and figurative language
 End-of-Unit Assessment
affect tone and theme in a story
Unit 5:The Pursuit of Happiness
 Analyze the structural and stylistic
features of texts
 Embedded Assessment 1:
Personal Essay
Unit 5: The Pursuit of Happiness
 Embedded Assessment 2:
 Write using conventions of a genre
Research Project
 Identify an author’s purpose and
 Writing Workshop 4:
bias
Reflective essay
 Conduct an syntactical analysis of a
 Writing Workshop 10:
portion of text
Research
 Cite sources correctly
 End-of-Unit Assessment