11 Grade Honors English Quarter 2 Curriculum Map
Teacher: Mrs. Isaacs
Big Ideas:
1. Who owns the land?
2. What makes an explorer?
3. Are people basically good?
4. Who has the right to rule?
Essential Questions:
1. How do authors create meaning in literary and informational (nonfiction) texts?
1. How can we use techniques and strategies effectively in written communication?
2. How can we convey our ideas in precise Standard English with increasingly varied and
complex vocabulary?
3. How do speakers use techniques and strategies in oral communication?
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Standards
RI 11-12.4
RL 11-12.3
RI 11-12.2
RI 11-12.1
RL 11-12.2
RL 11-12.5
RI 11-12.9
RI 11-12.6
L 11-12.4
RI 11-12.8
W 11-12.1b
L 11-12.4
Learning Targets
RL and RI 11-12.4 Determine meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text
(figurative, connotative, and technical meanings) analyze how an author and refines the
meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.
RL 11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate
elements of a story or drama.
RL and RI 11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one
another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text
RL and RI 11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what
the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining
where the text leaves matters uncertain.
RL 11-12.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a
text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
RI 11-12. 5 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or
her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing,
and engaging.
RL and RI 11-12.9 Analyze 17 , 18 , and 19 century foundational U.S. documents of
historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
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RI 11-12.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power,
persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
L 11-12.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and
phrases based on grades 11-12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of
strategies.
RI 11-12.8 Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the
application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning and the premises,
purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy.
SL 11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with
diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL 11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and
distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning alternative or
opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and
style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.
SL 11-12.5 Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to enhance understanding
of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
RL 11-12.6 Analyze a case in which grasping pint of view requires distinguishing what is
directly stated in a text from what is really meant
RL 11-12.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem evaluating how each
version interprets the source text.
RL and RI 11-12.10 By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including
stories, dramas, and poems, in grades 11 – CCR text complexity band proficiently, with
scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Assessments
Tests, quizzes, Research Project: “The Crucible” and McCarthyism, short answer and essay
questions, projects, application activities, Power Point, Skill Application and Matching
Quizzes
Resources and Materials
McDougal Littell Literature Grade 11 American Lit.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Picture: page 121: The Method, Paraphrase by
Paragraph, Quiz, Discussion of Puritan Beliefs / The Great Awakening. (One Week)
“The Crucible” and Video (Two Weeks)
“McCarthyism” (Show clip of The Majestic) – Research Paper (One Week)
“The Demons of Salem, With Us Still”
“Time Bends”
Media Study “from The Crucible”
Death of a Salesman (One and 1/2 Weeks)
“Julius Caesar” (One and 1/2 Weeks)
“Speech in the Virginia Convention”
“The Declaration of Independence”
“from The Crisis”
“Letter to the Rev. Samson Occom”
“Letter to John Adams”
“The Autobiography”
“Poor Richard’s Almanack”
“50 Ways to Fix Your Life”
AR Reading Books – Outside reading
Word Smart 3 Edition The Princeton Review
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McDougal Littell Resources: Grammar, Writing, Power Points, Media Study, Online
Resources
Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation
Literature Circles, The Method (IU class), Summary, Projects, Analysis questions/
Handouts, Participation / Discussion
Media Study, Outlining, Essays
Through Short answer / essay type questions
Short answer / essay type questions: Research
Pretest, Flash cards (word/definition, pronunciation key, pictures) Post tests
Key Ideas:
1. Are people basically good?
2. Who has the right to rule?
Key Idea Questions for each selection:
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What keeps you in line?
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What fuels a mob?
3.
When is it time to take action?
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When is rebellion justified?
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Whose side are you on?
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Who gets to make the rules?
7.
Is perfection possible?
Key Vocabulary: American Drama, tragedy, comedy, conflict, elements of plot (exposition,
rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution), protagonist, antagonist, foil characters,
monologue, soliloquy, aside, stage directions, heroes, villains, rhetorical devices (rhetorical
question, antithesis, repetition, parallelism, preamble (foreword), declaration, conclusion,
persuasive techniques (emotional appeal, ethical appeal, appeals to association, appeals to
authority), diction, primary source, first person, dual perspective, significant moments,
satire, sarcasm, irony, understatement)
Key Reading Strategies: Predict, Draw Conclusions, Analyze Structure, Descriptive
Details, Sensory Details, Analyze Details, Summarize, Main Idea, Reading a Persuasive
Speech, Clarify Meaning, Making Inferences, Connect, and Analyze Visuals
Grammar Skills: Appositive, Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinate Conjunctions,
Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun Agreement, Active vs. Passive Sentences, Active Verbs.
Writing: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, Transitions, Evidenced Writing, Thesis/Claims,
Conclusions.
Early Writers: Arthur Miller, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Phyllis
Wheatley, Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and William Shakespeare.