WCHS Tenth Grade Honors Curriculum Map
First Nine Weeks
Reading Focus: Literary
*Extended Texts: Cry, the Beloved
Country by Alan Paton, and Things Fall
Apart by Chinua Achebe
*Literary short texts:
“Marriage Is A Private Affair” by Chinua
Achebe, “No Witchcraft for Sale” by
Doris Lessing,” excerpt from The Things
They Carried (“On the Rainy River”) by
Tim O’Brien, “A Private Experience” by
Chimamanda Adichie, Laches by Plato,
exc. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest
Hemingway and additional poems
*Informational short texts:
Long Walk to Freedom (speech) by
Nelson Mandela, “The Perils of
Indifference” (speech) by Elie Wiesel ,
“Indian Removal Act of 1830,” Andrew
Jackson’s Speech to Congress on Indian
Removal, “Letter from a Birmingham
Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and
other speeches, websites, and analyses
ELACC9-10RL1-10, ELACC9-10RI1-10
Second Nine Weeks
Reading Focus: Informational
*Extended Texts: Night by Elie Wiesel,
and Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass by Frederick Douglass
*Literary short texts:
Metamorphosis (novella) by Franz Kafka,
Antigone by Sophocles, “Pride” by Dahlia
Ravikovitch and other poems, excerpt
from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
*Informational short texts:
Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman,
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize
acceptance speech, “First They Came” by
Pastor Martin Niemioller, “Why Don’t We
Know the Origin of the Word ‘ghetto’?”,
and other documents, visual texts, songs,
and art
Writing Focus: Argumentative
Prompts: "Cultural decay within The
Broken Tribe: Who or what is to blame?"
"Analysis of the courage and endurance
of a main character"
"Title development within the novel"
“Forgiveness is often withheld when
needed: A thematic argument between
novels”
"Is total equality possible?"
ELACC9-10W1,4,5,6,10
Writing Focus: Informative/Explanatory
"In Defense of Human Rights: Violations
and Consequences”
“ Comparison of the Symbols of
Alienation”
“How Does Art Inform or Influence
Society?”
“Human Rights in High Schools and
American Societies”
ELACC9-10W2,4,5,6,10
ELACC9-10RL1-10, ELACC9-10RI1-10
Third Nine Weeks
Reading Focus: Literary
*Extended Texts: The Tragedy of
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare,
and All Quiet on the Western Front by
Erich Maria Remarque
*Literary Short texts:
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas
Llosa, “The Raid” by John Steinbeck,
My Forbidden Face by Latifa, excerpt
from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali,
“Exile” by Julia Alvarez, and other
poems
*Informational Short texts:
“Rafael Trujillo” (Encyclopedia
Britannica), “Chasing the Butterflies”
by Julia Alvarez, “Dominican Republic:
Warning from Beneath the Cliff” Time
Magazine, “The Mirabel Sisters”
(Website), and other documents,
visual texts, songs, and art
ELACC9-10RL1-10, ELACC9-10RI1-10
Fourth Nine Weeks
Reading Focus: Informational
*Extended Texts: Moneyball by Michael
Lewis, and Death Be Not Proud by John
Gunther
*Literary Short Texts:
“Washington’s Monument, February
1885” by Walt Whitman, “O Captain, My
Captain” by Walt Whitman, “A Good Man
is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner,
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H.
Lawrence, “Mystery of Heroism” by
Stephen Crane, and others
*Informational Short texts:
"Top Artists Reveal How to Find Creative
Inspiration” by Laura Barnett, from When
I Was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda
Santiago, Hall of Fame Induction Speech
by Jackie Robinson, The Sabermetric
Manifesto by David J. Grabiner, “What
Would You Risk Your Life For?” by Holly
Epstein Ojalvo, and other documents,
visual texts, songs, and art
ELACC9-10RL1-10, ELACC9-10RI1-10
Writing Focus: Argumentative
“Tragic Flaws of Julius Caesar”
“Defending characters in their
symbols of transformation and
freedom”
“Hero/Heroine Documentation”
(Multimedia Presentation)
“Defending the Assassination of Julius
Caesar”
ELACC9-10W2,4,5,6,10
Writing Focus: Informative/Explanatory
“The theme of racism and inequality in
selected poems”
“Classic Archetypes in Fiction and Nonfiction”
“Strength and Inspiration in the Changing
of America’s Favorite Pastime”
“Personal Journeys of Main Characters”
(A multimedia presentation)
ELACC9-10W1,4,5,6,10
Research Connection:
KwaZulu Natal & Johannesburg,
Afrikaans Language and Afrikaner
Nationalist Party, Tribal and Cultural
Traditions, Apartheid, Jim Crow, Trail of
Tears, Civil Rights, Vietnam, Indian
Removal Act
ELACC9-10W7,8,10
Narratives:
Continuation of “Marriage Is a Private
Affair”
Life as an Immigrant Teenager
ELACC9-10W3,4,5,6,10
Routine Writing:
Reader Response journal, summarizing
and short response activities, research
notes, various annotations
ELACC9-10W1,2,3,9,10
Research Connection:
Eugenics, Genocide, Holocaust, nonJewish populations persecuted by the
Nazis, Prisoners of Conscience,
Symbolism, World War II
ELACC9-10W7,8,10
Research Connection:
Elizabethan Era and its influence on
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Gandhi,
WWI, War Propaganda of WWI, the
Great Depression, Women’s Suffrage
Movement
ELACC9-10W1,4,5,6,10
Research Connection:
Poets and their inspiration, Legends
around the world,
political/religious/social heroes, athletic
underdogs, baseball topics, mathematical
strategies in unusual ways
ELACC9-10W1,4,5,6,10
Narratives:
Reflection of various song themes to unit
theme
Personal reflection of being an Outsider
ELACC9-10W3,4,5,6,10
Narratives:
Personal Essays in response to
themes present in Julius Caesar,
Narrative: Day in the Life of the
Taliban Regime, Rewrite “The Raid” in
the time of the Occupy Wall Street
movement
ELACC9-10W3,4,5,6,10
Routine Writing:
Reader Response Journal
Summarizing and short response
activities
Research notes
ELACC9-10W1,2,3,9,10
Narratives:
List and detail your own inspirations
Create your own memoir
Routine Writing:
Reader Response Journal, summarizing
and short response activities,
explications of poetry, paraphrasing,
quotation logs, and research notes
ELACC9-10W1,2,3,9,10
Language
Listening
Study and apply grammar
Use and understand general academic and literary vocabulary
ELACC9-10L1-6
ELACC9-10W3,4,5,6,10
Routine Writing:
Claims and Warrants, annotations,
reader-response journals, predictions,
reviews, peer editing, short response
activities, Cornell notes
ELACC9-10W1,2,3,9,10
Speaking and
Engage in collaborative discussions; present findings;
evaluate a speaker's claims, rhetoric, and strategy;
incorporate multimedia components
ELACC9-10SL1-6