2011-2012
FRESHMAN ENGLISH
FIRST QUARTER – 41 days; 3 early release; 1 E/LA KCAS meeting
Mini-Unit: Class Overview – 1.5 days
Unit One: The Short Story – 15 days instruction/formative assessment; 1 day review; 1 day exam
 Overview of the Genre/Plot Map/Terminology
 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – James Thurber, American 1939
 Allegory of the Cave – Plato, Greek
 The Interlopers – Saki, British
 Poem: Mending Wall, Robert Frost
 Handsomest Drowned Man in the World – Gabriel Garcia Marques, Columbia
Unit Two: The Novella – 20 days instruction (10 on novel only, 10 on supporting documents)/formative
assessment; 1 day review; 1 day exam
 Overview of the Genre/Time Period/John Steinbeck
 Novella: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, American 1930’s
 Parable: The Story of Cain and Abel
 Essay: The Legacy of Cain in Of Mice and Men
 Poem: To a Mouse, Robert Burns
 Project: Personal Reaction
SECOND QUARTER – 42 days; 1 early release; 2 E/LA KCAS meetings
Unit 3: The Novel – 40 days instruction/formative assessment; 1 day review; 1 day exam
 Overview of the Genre/Time Period/Harper Lee
 Novel: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
 Extemporaneous Speech – Ain’t I a Woman?, Sojourner Truth
 Poems:
 If, Rudyard Kipling
 Still I Rise and Four Foot Feat, Maya Angelou
 Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar
 Project: Personality Bags
 Writing and Family Research: Poem – Four Foot Feat
THIRD QUARTER – 45 days; 0 early release; 2 E/LA KCAS meetings
Unit 4: Drama – 43 days instruction/formative assessment; 1 day review; 1 day exam
 Play – Twelfth Night, Shakespeare 1600’s
 Project –
 Presentation:
FOURTH QUARTER – 44 days (including testing window); 0 early release; 1 E/LA KCAS
meetings
Unit 5: Literary Allusion – 43 days instruction/formative assessment; 1 day review; 1 day exam
 Novel – Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
 Poetic Allusions:
 Dover Beach
 The Tiger and The Lamb
 Dante’s Inferno
 Shakespearean Allusions:
 Hamlet
 Julius Caesar
 Biblical Allusions:
 Tower of Babel
 Sermon on the Mount
 Writing: Literary Analysis – Explain the significance of three allusions in F451.