ELA Curriculum Map
10th Grade
Margaret Garls
Unit 1: Ourselves and Others First 9 Weeks
Content
Vocabulary
Plot Elements
Round
Character
Flat Character
Dynamic
Character
Protagonist
Antagonist
Point of View
Suspense
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Irony of
Situation
Dramatic Irony
Setting
Mood
Tone
Theme
Connotation
Denotation
Inference
Central Idea
Structure
Rhetoric
Vocabulary
Words and
Strategy
Used
Discriminate
Diverse
Inhibit
Intervene
Rational
Text
Common Core Standards
RL1 Cite textual evidence.
RL2 Determine a theme and analyze its
development.
RL 3 Analyze how complex characters
develop, interact, and advance the plot.
RL 4 Determine meaning of words and
phrases.
Context clues Short
Poignant
RL5 Analyze how an author’s choices
Story:
Beleaguered What, of
create mystery, tension, or surprise.
Fluent
This
RL 6 Analyze a particular point of view
Wizened
Goldfish,
from outside the United States.
Would You SL 1a Come to discussions prepared,
Wish?
refer to evidence from texts to stimulate
ideas.
L3 Apply language in different contexts
to make choices for style and to
comprehend more fully.
L 4a Use context as a clue to meaning of
a word.
RL 1 Cite textual evidence.
RL 2 Determine a theme and analyze its
development.
Short
Story: The RL 3 Analyze how complex characters
Wife’s
develop, interact, and advance the plot.
Story
RL 4 Determine meaning of words and
Close
phrases.
Reader
RL 5 Analyze how an author’s choices
create mystery, tension, or surprise.
Students will be able to…
Task
Analyze character
motivations
and analyze point of view
of
characters of different
cultural
backgrounds.
Analyze elements of
fiction.
Writing Assignment
Analyzing the techniques
the author uses to help
audience identify with
the narrator of the story,
“The Wife’s Story.”
Words From
Latin
Compulsion
Implicit
Reaffirmation
Resilience
Orthodoxy
Sanctity
Dogma
Dissenter
Denotation
and
Connotation
Profusely
Perfunctory
Petulantly
Defiantly
RI 1 Cite textual evidence.
RI 2 Determine a central idea and
analyze its development.
RI 3 Analyze how an author unfolds
ideas or events.
RI 4 Determine the meaning of words
and phrases.
RI 5 Analyze how an author’s ideas are
developed by particular sentences or
paragraphs
Editorial: RI 1 Cite textual evidence.
American
RI 2 Determine a central idea and
Flag Stands analyze its development.
For
RI 3 Analyze how an author unfolds
Tolerance
ideas or events.
RI 4 Determine the meaning of words
and phrases.
RI 5 Analyze how an author’s ideas are
developed by particular sentences or
paragraphs.
RI 8 Delineate and evaluate the
argument and specific claims in a text:
identify false statements.
Supreme
Court
Opinion:
Texas v.
Johnson
Majority
Opinion
Short
Story:
The
Lottery
Nonfiction
Article:
The
Lottery
Letters
RL1 Cite textual evidence.
RL2 Determine a theme and analyze its
development.
RL 3 Analyze how complex characters
develop, interact, and advance the plot.
RL 4 Determine meaning of words and
phrases.
RL5 Analyze how an author’s choices
create mystery, tension, or surprise.
W 1 Write arguments using valid
reasoning and relevant evidence
Writing Assignment:
Analyze the
effectiveness of
face to face
interaction to
resolve conflict in
the first three selections.
Use text evidence to
support your ideas.
Discuss explicit meaning
and inferences
and have students identify
examples in
the text.
Analyze the impact of
word choice and
the tone in both selections.
Analyze details in text.
Explain use of irony of
situation.
Analyze impact of word
choice and tone.
Performance Task:
page 17
Writing a Comparison
Compare the
First Amendment
and Texas v.
Johnson. Identify
concepts discussed
in both documents.
Support your points
with examples
from both texts
Writing Assignment:
Use correct business
letter format and write a
letter to The New Yorker
magazine supporting
or opposing the inclusion
of the story in the
magazine.