NxtG Essential Curriculum
Course: English 10
Essential NxtG
Objectives
Reading
ELA.10.R.C1.1
ELA.10.R.C1.2
ELA.10.R.C1.3
ELA.10.R.C1.4
ELA.10.R.C1.5
ELA.10.R.C1.6
ELA.10.R.C2.1
ELA.10.R.C2.2
ELA.10.R.C2.3
ELA.10.R.C3.1
ELA.10.R.C2.2
First 9 Weeks
Review
Reading
ELA.10.R.C.1
ELA.10.R.C.2
Writing
ELA.10.W.C10.1
ELA.10.W.C10.2
Introduce
Possible Instructional Materials *
Research
(writing)
ELA.10.W.C11.1
ELA.10.W.C11.2
ELA.10.W.C11.3
ELA.10.R.C.3.5
Literary Texts (Novels):
Speaking &
Listening
ELA.10.SL.C14.3
Language
ELA.10.L.C15.1
ELA.10.L.C15.2
ELA.10.L.C16.1
ELA.10.L.C17.1
ELA.10.L.C17.2
ELA.10.L.C17.3
-To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
-Lord of the Flies (Golding)
-The Bean Trees (Kingsolver)
-Where the Heart Is (Letts)
-The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
Short Literary Texts
(Poetry/Short Story)
-“A Dream Deferred”(Hughes)
-“We Wear the Mask” (Dunbar)
-“Same Song” (Pat Mora) T
-“Incident” (Countee Cullen)
-“We Real Cool” (Brooks) T
-“Lamb to the Slaughter” (Dahl) T
-“The Bass, the River, and Sheila
Mant” (Wetherall) T
-“Everyday Use” (Walker) T
Informational Text
-I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
(Angelou)
- Three Cups of Deceit (Krakaur)
- Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson)
-“Quilt of a Country” (Quindlen) B
-FDR State of the Union Address B
-“Brown vs. Board of Education” B
*Suggested books would be compatible with any of the CSOs in the essential curriculum.
B – items from Appendix B
T – items from literature textbook
NxtG Essential Curriculum
Course: English 10
Second 9 Weeks
Essential NxtG
Objectives
Review
Introduce
Possible Instructional Materials*
Reading
ELA.10.R.C1.4
ELA.10.R.C1.5
ELA.10.R.C1.6
ELA.10.R.C2.4
ELA.10.R.C2.5
ELA.10.R.C2.6
ELA.10.R.C4.1
ELA.10.R.C2.2
ELA.10.R.C.3.5
Reading
ELA.10.R.C4.1
ELA.10.R.C4.2
Writing
ELA.10.W.C10.1
ELA.10.W.C10.2
ELA.10.W.C10.3
Speaking &
Listening
ELA.10.SL.C14.1
ELA.10.SL.C14.2
Literary Texts (novels)
-1984 (Orwell)
-Fahrenheit 451 (Orwell)
-Water for Elephants (Gruen)
-Silas Marner (Eliot)
-Feed (Anderson)
-Joy Luck Club (Tan)
Reading
ELA.10.R.C3.4
Speaking &
Listening
ELA.10.SL.C14.3
Language
ELA.10.L.C17.1
ELA.10.L.C17.2
ELA.10.L.C17.3
Writing
ELA.10.W.C9.1
ELA.10.W.C9.2
ELA.10.W.C9.3
ELA.10.W.C12.1
Research
ELA.10.W.C11.1
ELA.10.W.C11.2
ELA.10.W.C11.3
Literary Texts (Short Story)
-“The Pedestrian” (Bradbury) T
-“Alas Babylon” (Frank) T
-“Contents of the Dead Man’s
Pocket” (Finney) T
-“The Cold Equations” (Godwin) T
-“I Stand Here Ironing” (Olsen) B
Literary Texts (Poetry)
-“miss rosie” (Clifton) T
-Heart! We will forget him!”
(Dickenson) T
-“Grape Sherbet” (Dove) T
-“Gracious Goodness” (Piercy) B
-“The Highwayman” (Noyes) B
-“Yet Do I Marvel” (Cullen) B
Informational Texts
-Angela’s Ashes (McCourt) B
-War Horse (Morpurgo)
-George Washington’s Farewell
Speech B
*Suggested books would be compatible with any of the CSOs in the essential curriculum.
B – items from Appendix B
T – items from literature textbook
NxtG Essential Curriculum
Course: English 10
Essential NxtG
Objectives
Reading
ELA.10.R.C1.1
ELA.10.R.C1.2
ELA.10.R.C1.3
ELA.10.R.C1.4
ELA.10.R.C1.5
ELA.10.R.C1.6
ELA.10.R.C2.1
ELA.10.R.C2.2
ELA.10.R.C2.3
ELA.10.R.C2.4
ELA.10.R.C2.5
ELA.10.R.C2.6
Third 9 Weeks
Review
Possible Instructional Materials*
Reading
ELA.10.R.C.1
ELA.10.R.C.2
Language
ELA.10.L.C17.1
ELA.10.L.C17.2
Speaking
ELA.10.SL.C14.1
ELA.10.SL.C14.2
Literary Texts (Novels/Plays):
-Daughter of Fortune (Allende)
-Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
-Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Shakespeare)
-Much Ado about Nothing
(Shakespeare)
-House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
-Glass Menagerie (Williams)
-The Sword in the Stone (White)
-In the Time of the Butterflies
(Alvarez)
-The River King (Hoffman)
Literary Texts (Short Story/Poetry)
-“Geraldo No Last name” (Cisneros) T
-Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare) T
-“Since Feeling is First” (Cummings) T
-“I am offering this Poem” (Santiago
Baca) T
-“The Legend” (Garret Hongo) T
-“Bonny Barbara Allan” T
-“Loveliest of Trees” (Housman) B
-“And of Clay We Are Created”
(Allende) B
Informational Texts
-“Into Thin Air” (Krakaur) T
-“Man in the Water” (Rosenblatt) T
-“R.M.S Titanic” (Baldwin) T
-“The Black Death” (Giblin) T
-A Walk in the Woods (Bryson) T
-“By Any Other Name” (Rau) T
*Suggested books would be compatible with any of the CSOs in the essential curriculum.
B – items from Appendix B
T – items from literature textbook
NxtG Essential Curriculum
Course: English 10
Fourth 9 Weeks
Essential NxtG Objectives
Review
Possible Instructional Materials*
Reading
ELA.10.R.C1.1
ELA.10.R.C1.2
ELA.10.R.C1.3
ELA.10.R.C1.4
ELA.10.R.C1.5
ELA.10.R.C1.6
ELA.10.R.C2.1
ELA.10.R.C1.2
ELA.10.R.C1.3
ELA.10.R.C1.4
ELA.10.R.C1.5
ELA.10.R.C1.6
Reading
ELA.10.R.C4.1
ELA.10.R.C4.2
ELA.10.R. C10.1
ELA.10.R.C10.2
ELA.10.R.C10.3
ELA.10.R.C12.1
ELA.10.SL.C14.3
Literary Texts (Novels/Plays):
- The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
-Trifles (Glaspel) T
-True Grit (Portis)
-A River Runs Through It (McQueen) B
-Once and Future King (White)
-The Killer Angels (Shaara) B
-Candide (Voltaire) B
Language
ELA.10.L.C17.1
ELA.10.L.C17.2
ELA.10.L.C17.3
ELA.10.W.C11.1
ELA.10.W.C11.2
ELA.10.W.C11.3
ELA.10.SL.C13.1
ELA.10.SL.C13.2
ELA.10.SL.C13.3
ELA.10.SL.C14.1
ELA.10.SL.C14.2
Literary Texts (Short Story/Poetry)
-“Where have you Gone Charming Billy”
(O’Brien) T
-“The Possibility of Evil” (Jackson) T
-“Evacuation Order No.19” (Otsuka) T
-“I, Too” (Hughes) T
-“O Captain! my Captain” (Whitman) T
-“King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again”
(Lindsay)
-“Sea Fever” (Masefield) T
-“After Apple Picking” (Frost) T
-“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
(Frost) T
“Sonnet 73” (Shakespeare) T
-“Song” (Donne) B
-“Ozymandias” (Shelley) B
-“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”
(Dickinson) B
-“Lift Every Voice and Sing” (Johnson) B
-“Musee des Beaux Arts” (Auden) B
-“Women” (Walker) B
Informational Text
-Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address B
-Gettysburg Address B
-Pieces of the Frame (McPhee)
-High Tide in Tucson (Kingsolver)
-Never Cry Wolf (Mowat)
-“Cod: A Biography of the Fish that
Changed the world” (Kurlansky) B
*Suggested books would be compatible with any of the CSOs in the essential curriculum.
B – items from Appendix B
T – items from literature textbook