Ten-Month Planning Calendar for Lindsay Hoyt
English III College Prep
Text: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, various novels, supplemental materials
September
Literature Review, The
Writing Process, Realism
October
Realism, Beloved or O! Pioneers
November
Forging New Frontiers
The Beginnings of Modernism
December
Fitzgerald’s Modernism
January
Modernist Poetry
Topics Covered:
The development of American
English and the basis of
modern vocabulary’s ancient
roots, review of concepts with
which students need to be
familiar, Realism, Whitman,
the Civil War’s impact on
literature, the value of personal
journals and accounts.
Topics Covered:
Family connections, how place
impacts topic, and how
characterization impacts plot.
Topics Covered:
The impact of society and an
author’s life on the literature
they write, Mark Twain and the
American Language, the
changing role of women and
minorities at the turn of the 20th
century.
Topics Covered:
The impact of society and an
author’s life on the literature
they write, major events in
American society 1915-25,
themes of Fitzgerald’s writing
Topics Covered:
The impact of group thought/
brainstorming on creative output,
satire, the modernization of
American society and author’s
different reactions to it.
Essential Terms:
Flapper
Jazz Age
Lost Generation
Protagonist
Antagonist
Analysis
Ideas
Organization
Essential Terms:
Imagist
Imagery
Tenet
Internal Rhyme
Satire
Metaphor
Simile
Dramatic Monologue
Repetition for effect
Slang
Reading:
“The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”, “A Few Don’t’s by an
Imagiste”, “In a Station of the
Metro”, “The Red
Wheelbarrow”, “This is Just to
Say”, “Heat”, “The Unknown
Citizen”, “anyone lived in a
pretty how town”, “Chicago”,
“Mending Wall”, “Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening”.
Essential Terms:
Epistle
Line break
Free Verse
Realism
Setting
Scene
Description
Point of view
Reading:
“I Hear America Singing”, “By
the Bivouac’s Fitful
Flame”,“My bondage and My
Freedom”, “Recollections of a
Private”, “Reaction to the
Emancipation Proclamation”,
“An Account of an Experience
with Discrimination”
Writing Assignments:
Summer Reading Essay
Narration of an experience of
their own with discrimination,
reading-based journal prompts,
pre-test.
Essential Terms:
Theme
Symbol
Motif
Characterization
Tragic Flaw
Dialogue
Ideas
Prose
Reading:
A Farewell to Arms, O! Pioneers,
or Beloved
Writing Assignments:
Narrative mimesis of the work of
an author studied using storytelling
techniques.
Extended Experience/
Writing/Editing:
Reading journal to accompany the
novel.
Peer groups meeting together to
discuss, assess, and answer
questions pertaining to the reading.
Major Assessments:
Narrative as test grade, Realism
unit test, quarterly.
Essential Terms:
Word Choice
Voice
Sentence Fluency
Contrast
Plot
Rising Action
Falling Action
Climax
Resolution
Irony
Exposition
Reading:
“The Western Vistas of Willa
Cather and Mark Twain”,
student selections by Twain and
Cather, “The Story of an Hour”,
“April Showers”, “Douglass”,
“We Wear the Mask”, “The
Necklace”
Writing Assignments:
Realism Menu Compare and
Contrast assignment, RAFT of
characters from Chopin and
Maupassant, Quarterly, causeeffect assessment of character
motivation.
Reading:
“Winter Dreams”, “Bernice
Bobs Her Hair”, Washington
Post Book Review “Gatsby: The
Greatest of Them All”, The
Great Gatsby.
Writing Assignments:
In-character letter from one of
Fitzgerald’s characters to
another (RAFT), chapter by
chapter quote analysis of The
Great Gatsby.
Extended Experience/
Writing/Editing:
Peer editing of chapter quote
analysis, group rafting.
Writing Assignments:
Imagist poetry, analysis of satire
in poetry, analysis of various
poetic elements and their
effectiveness.
Major Assessments:
Mid-Term
February
Persuasion, Modernism, and
the Harlem Renaissance
March
Post-Modernism and American
Drama
April
Pre-American Drama:
Macbeth
May
Post-Modernism and
Contemporary Reflection
June
Contemporary Literature and
its Topics
Topics Covered:
Place based writing, the
Harlem Renaissance, HSPA
prep.
Topics Covered:
Post-Modernism and its
differences from Modernism,
major events of the second half of
the 20th Century, essential elements
of playwriting.
Topics Covered:
Shakespeare, revenge, jealousy,
human nature, tragic flaw,
essential elements of research
writing.
Topics Covered:
Personal voice in reflection,
using humor to extend voice,
elements of the grotesque, satire.
Topics Covered:
Personal voice in reflection, the
impact of current events on our
belief systems, how we may be
viewed in the future, creating a
portfolio.
Essential Terms:
Harlem Renaissance
Purpose
Autobiography
Protest
Persuasion
Reading:
“Dust Tracks on a Road”, “The
Negro Speaks of Rivers”,
“Ardella”, “Refugee in
America”, “The Weary Blues”,
“Theme for English B”, “i
yearn”, various persuasive
reading and writing excerpts.
Writing Assignments:
Poetry: using poetic devices
learned in Modernism, write a
poem based on one of three
covered in recent weeks.
Persuasive prompts and
practices. Explain how the
writers of the Harlem
Renaissance were writing to
persuade.
Essential Terms:
Playwright
Scene
Requiem
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Tragic Hero
Reading:
Text timeline of the period, “The
Development of American
English: Brave New Words”,
Death of a Salesman
Writing Assignments:
Reaction and response to play,
persuasive explanation as a
character from the play of their
motivations and why they are right,
major project menu for Death of a
Salesman.
Essential Terms:
Works Cited
In-text citation
Thesis statement
Iambic pentameter
Act and scene
Synecdoche
Aside
Soliloquy
Foil
Reading:
Macbeth, student-selected works
and scholarly sources by and of
their chosen authors.
Writing Assignments:
Analysis of symbolism in
Macbeth, research paper,
“Witches’ Brew”, various
reflective journals related to
themes present in the play.
Major Assessments:
Research paper: Authors in
Contrast
Essential Terms:
Ideas
Organization
Voice
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Conventions
Reflective
Expository
Satire
Juxtaposition
Vignette
Reading:
“The Mortgaged Heart”,
“Onomatopoeia”, “Coyote v.
Acme”, “Straw into Gold: The
Metamorphosis of the
Everyday”, “The Rockpile”, The
House on Mango Street.
Writing Assignments:
Personal reflective essay on
childhood, satire using specific
voice, vignette practice using
their experiences.
Major Assessments:
Wikispaces group vignette
project.
Essential Terms:
Review essentials from the year.
Reading:
“Losses”, “Camouflaging the
Chimera”, selected post-9/11
literature.
Writing Assignments:
Reflective journal prompts in
response to selections, final
portfolio, end-of-year reflective
prompt.
Major Assessments:
Final Exam