English Program
2012 - 2013
11th Grade
Teacher: Gail Moscovich, Lucy Paz
Month
Coordinator: Sharon Shapira
Material
Text book: It Makes
Sense
Sept
Oct
Unit 1: For Your Eyes
Only
4 Points
Goals/curriculum
Social Interaction: interacting for the purpose of giving advice
expressing personal wishes and opinions
Access to Information: understand the supporting details in a text
extract relevant information from different sources
understand the structure and convention of an informative ad
Appreciation of Lit/Cult: awareness that languages differ in syntax (neg. prefixes)
comparing word order in English and Hebrew
Presentation: describing people, places, things and events
Present simple, present progressive, modals, semi-modals, phrasal verbs
Listening: Look Your Best
explaining cause and
effect
Writing: a description
Reading program: extensive reading in class and at home
Literature: The Split Cherry Tree by Jesse Stuart
Nov
Dec
Unit 2: A Question of
Taste
comparing / contrasting
Social Interaction: engaging in longer conversations
interacting in order to persuade
Access to Information: interpret information from visual data
draw inferences, distinguish fact from opinion
understand the structure and convention of different text types
Appreciation of Lit/Cult: awareness that languages use different idiomatic expressions
awareness how cultural framework is reflected in literature
Presentation: express ideas and opinions about general topics using main/supporting
ideas
relative clauses, past simple, past progressive, adjectives ending in –ed/-ing
Listening: In Good Taste
Reading program: extensive reading in class and at home
Literature: Stopping by Woods on a snowy Evening (poem) by Robert Frost
Social Interaction: interact for purpose of giving information
Unit 3: A World of Smells
Jan
Feb
Access to Information: understand text organization to understand main idea
identify the attitudes of the writer
Understand the structure and conventions of text types.
Appreciation of Lit/Cult: awareness that languages differ in syntax - suffixes
Presentation: react to the content of something read, seen or heard.
future simple, be going to, passive, words that are both nouns and verbs
generating possibilities
Listening: I Have a Problem
Reading program: extensive reading in class and at home
Literature: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Jan
Feb
Mar
Winter Bagrut
Oral Bagrut practice
Oral Bagrut
Matconet for the winter Bagrut
Winter Bagrut
Finish projects
Preparation for the Oral Bagrut
Matconet for the Oral Bagrut
Literature Program:
Oral Bagrut
Continue regular programs
Begin practice papers for Bagrut
Literature:
Practice for the written Bagrut
Apr
Summer Bagrut
Matconet for the Bagrut
Hand in Literature Portfolio
Present Projects
May
Bagrut: Modules B
and C
Bagrut for the modules