Review Term 1: Argument
English 10th grade 2015-2016 Curriculum
Term 2: Argument Writing Term 3: Synthesis Term 4
● MLA
● Denotation
●
Capitalization
● Comma
● Connotation
● Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they used in a text, including figurative, connotative and technical meaning...
THEME
Characters to develop the theme
Introduce
Connotation/Denotation
First half:
● Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant…
● Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric…
Transition:
● Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed…
● Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed and the connections drawn between them.
● Logical fallacies
Second half:
● Write arguments to support claims in analysis…
● Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says…
● Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums determining in each account
● Analyze the representation of a subject or key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized and what is absent from each
● Semi colons
●
Colons
● Clauses
● Phrases
● Parallel structure
Close Reading Assessment:
Given Before SAGE
March 14 Begins SAGE Writing
● Review
● Testing
●
Finals
● Remediation
● Battle of the Books

Term 1
Summative assessment: identify claims and support in text assessment for rhetorical skills
Explanatory Writing Rubric
Term 2
Argumentative essay
Rubric
Term 3
Summative essay:
Formative:
Sage Testing
Final
Term 4
Beginning of the year Mango Street by Sandra
Cisneros
Why Read: Why is
Reading Important?
#1: Pictures
#2: Reading Makes Us
Smarter and Nicer
#3 Disliking Books At An
Early Age-Gerald Graff
Growth vs. Fixed Mindset https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=o8JycfeoVzg&no redirect=1
Why is Education
Important? (What are the reasons an education is important?)
#1 Value of Education
#2 Why is education important for your future
#3 http://www.humanium.org/ en/world/right-toeducation/
#4 https://www.dosomething.
org/facts/11-facts-abouteducation-around-world
#5 http://gcc.concernusa.org/
EQ: What is the significance of a name ?
Night by Elie Wiesel 12 Angry Men by Reginald
Rose
Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare
EQ: What are the varying perspectives on the
Holocaust?
Why Should We Study the
Holocaust?
Why should we teach about history/WW1 and
WW2?
How Does the Act of
Burning Books Affect a
Society?
How Should the Story of th e Holocaust be Told To
Young People Today?
How are the excerpts from
The Book Thief and
Farenheit 451 different and similar?
Why Does Genocide Keep
Happening?
EQ:
What is stereotyping?
How does stereotyping affect individuals and society?
How can we overcome flaws and prejudices to serve justice and work toward the greater good?
EQ: How can hubris affect individual leaders and society? What are the qualities of an effective leader?
Penguin Unit on Julius
Caesar
Logical Fallacies in Julius
Caesar Graphic Organizer
Folger Julius Caesar Unit
“10 Big Leadership
Weaknesses” by Peck,
Huffington Post
Who Killed Caesar?
What makes an effective leader?
Are we Rome?
A Long Walk to Water by
Linda Sue Park
EQ: What do we need to survive? How important is clean water to one’s survival? How do our experiences shape us?
California Drought

media/pdf/Education.pdf
#6 http://dayofthegirl.org/girls
-denied-educationworldwide/
The Crucible The Scarlet Letter Huck Finn Gatsby Raisin in the Sun
EQ: How are women of
Puritan society represented in the visual text? Do these visual representations illustrate a narrative?
Why/Why not? If there is a narrative explain what the story is about.
Visual Texts:
“Examination of a Witch”
“The Salem Martyr”
“Arresting a Witch”
“America: A Matter of
Lies and Death”
Maps: Salem Village
The Devil in
Massachusetts
Film: Three Sovereigns for
Sarah
EQ: To what extent is there still a sexual double standard, and how does that double standard play out in contemporary culture?
EQ: How do societal and cultural expectations influence how young women are viewed in society?
EQ: What was the role and expectation for women in
Puritan Society?
Poem: “Huswifery” by
Edward Taylor
EQ: Why is prejudice and oppression an important issue in our society with respect to class and race?
Savage Inequalities by
Jonathan Kozol
Excerpt: There Are No
Children Here by Jonathan
Kozol
Why is the word “nigger” considered “probably the most offensive word” in the English language?
Should anyone be using the n-word these days? If so, who, when, why and how?
Advice to Youth by Mark
Twain
What is Humor?
How does race, gender, and culture affect the creativity in a community?
What were the effects of slavery in Southern culture?
Visual Text: Norman
Rockwell Painting
EQ: What is the
“American Dream”? How has this idea changed since the 1920s?
“How has the American dream changed?”
Articles:
“What does it take to achieve the American
Dream Today?”
Does Jay Gatsby represent the Modern Age?
EQ: Do we all have a right to own our own home wherever we want?
Describe the past and present role of segregation and racism in our society and its history.

IQ2Debate on Affirmative
Action
The Corner Store by
Eudora Welty
Hunting Your Own Dinner by Bill Heavey
The Unforgettable Miss
Bessie by Carl T. Rowan
Me & Her & It audio
Ground Zero by Berne
Advice to Youth by Mark
Twain
How to Write the Great
The Principles of Poor
Writing by Paul W. Merrill
Guacamole Is a Cruel
Mistress by Marion Winik
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall by Diane
Ackerman
My Eyeball Just Fell out it its Socket What Should I
Do?
Court Sides With Muslim
Why We Crave Horror
Movies by Stephen King
Why and When We Speak
Spanish in Public by
Myriam Marquez
Does Trying to Be Happy
Make Us Unhappy?
by
Adam Grant
After Lean Acorn Crop in
Northeast, Even People
May Feel the Effects
California Drought
Monks Embrace Web to
Reach Recruits
A Hard Turn: Better
Health on the Highway
The Power of Positive
Coaching
An Electronic Eye on
Hospital Hand-Washing
Shelby Steele Against
Affirmative Action
Two Ways of Seeing A
River by Mark Twain
Honeybees and killer bees
What is the difference between a frog and a toad?
What is the difference and similarities between a crocodile and an alligator?
Taking My Son to College by Christina Baker Kline
Two Ways to Belong in
America by Bharati
Mukherjee

American Indian Novel by
Sherman Alexie
Once More to the Lake-
E.B. White audio
The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell
I Want a Wife by Judy
Brady
I Want a Wife by Brady
A Fable for Tomorrow by
Rachel Carson
How It Feels To Be
Colored Me by Hurston
Girl by Kincaid
The Lasting Shadow of
Bernie Madoff
Time for a Vacation
In Tough Times, a Boom in
Cremations as a Way to
Save Money
Rough Times Take Bloom
Off a New Year’s Rite, the
Rose Parade
A Message on Every Arm
Grant and Lee : A Study in
Contrasts by Bruce Catton
Two New Baseball
Palaces, One Stoic, One
Scrappy
Who Wants to Shop in a
Big Box Store, Anyway?
http://education.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/casei/3-01-04-handout%20TextStructureResources%201.pdf
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/identifying-text-structure-1.pdf
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/identifying-text-structure-2.pdf
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/text-structure-3.pdf
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/text-structure-worksheet-10.pdf
http://thisreadingmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Nonfictiontspack-ceps.pdf
http://thisreadingmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nonfictiontspack2.pdf
http://www.smekenseducation.com/a980d48639_sites/www.smekenseducation.com/files/PURE_TEXT_Examples__Short_Passages_for_Introduction__PDF.pdf
http://education.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/casei/5-07-text_structures-deb-wahsltrom.pdf
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3

● Write explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts and information…
● Determine theme or central idea of a text and analyze in details…
● Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says…
● Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details…
● Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters and advance…
● Analyze author’s choices on how to structure a text, order events and manipulate time…
Summative assessment:
Explanatory essay on theme
Quiz on parallelism
Rubric
Formative:
● Article of the week with Summary organizer page 9
● TPCASTT for connotation
● Graphic organizers for character analysis / --#2
● character analysis add textual`evidence