ELA Curriculum Mapping
Grade 11 Semester 2
Essential Questions
-How does perception alter
and shape truth?
-How can conflict and change
lead to personal understanding
and growth?
Content
-Arthur Miller Author Study:
 The Crucible
 Death of Salesman (OR)
-The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
-Selections from Prentice Hall text
-How does our knowledge
empower us?
How do author’s
communicate and reflect the
cultural values of a time
period? How is human
behavior influenced by values
and beliefs?
-Why is conflict an inevitable
aspect of relationships?
Standards
Reading Literature:
11.RL.1
11.RL.2
11.RL 3
11.RL.4
11.RL.6
11.RL.7
11.RL.9
11.RL 10
-Assorted short stories and poetry
Literary Elements for The
Crucible:
Setting, Dialogue, Conflict, Plot,
Cause and Effect, Irony, Theme,
Characterization
Literary Elements for The Great
Gatsby:
Setting, Characterization, Mood
& Tone, Symbolism, Figurative
Language, Flashback, Conflict,
Point of View
Literary Elements for Death of a
Salesman:
Flashback, Dialogue, Conflict,
Symbolism, Irony, Cause and
Effect, Characterization
Writing Skills:
Informational Writing
Expository Writing
Reading: Informational Text
11.RIT.1
11.RIT.2
11.RIT.4
11.RIT.5
11.RIT.10
Writing:
11.W.1
11.W.2
11.W.4
11.W.5
11.W.6
11.W.7
11.W.9
11.W10
Speaking & Listening:
11.SL.1
11.SL.3
11.SL.4
11.SL.5
Assessment
For The Crucible:
Formative:
- Internet based research about
social issues of the era or
Internet-based research about
social issues of the era
-“Jigsaw” activity: Students
share research information
- Journals , Cause/effect
organizers, Character wheel,
Conflict chart, Plot
diagram/story map
-Act I – IV “act” tests
-“Did You Read” quizzes
(homework review quizzes)
-Vocabulary tests
-Reading guide questions
(homework)
Summative:
- Historical newspaper
- Scene adaptation and scene
performance
- Writing an original epilogue
- Letter writing between
characters or character diary
Final Assessment:
Literary/Social Issues
Analysis Essay: Exploring
Miller’s social criticism
through his content
Related Literature &
Readings
For The Crucible:
-“McCarthyism” from www.
sparticus.schoolnet.co.uk
-“Adolescence and Peer
Pressure,” by Herbert G.
Lingren
-Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
and Edward Taylor
“Sinner in the Hands of an
Angry God,” Jonathan
Edwards
-“The Minister’s Black Veil, “
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The European Witch Hunts,
c. 1450-1750 and Witch Hunts
Today,” by Adam Jones
History Today’s The Witches
of Salem (documentary video)
-Secondary Solutions
Common Core Aligned
literature Guide for The
Crucible
For Death of a Salesman:
‘A Father to his Son,” by Carl
Sandburg
Research-report Writing &
Analysis
Comparative Writing
Six Traits:
Sentence Fluency, Word Choice,
Voice, Organization, Ideas &
Conventions
11th Grade GUM Skills
Language:
11.L.1
11.L.2
11.L.3
11.L.4
11.L.5
11.L.6
For The Great Gatsby:
Formative:
-The Jazz Age research-based
Webquest
- Journals , Cause/effect
organizers, Character wheel,
Conflict chart, Plot
diagram/story map
-Act I – IV “act” tests
-“Did You Read” quizzes
(homework review quizzes)
-Vocabulary tests
-Reading guide questions
(homework)
-Note-taking and summarizing
-Chapter charts
Summative:
Oral presentations/Power
Point/I Movie/Movie <aker
about life and times of the
1920s, including social,
economic & political issues
Final Assessment:
Literary Analysis essay
exploring the use of literary
elements to develop major
themes within the novel
-Door to Door, Hallmark
Masterpiece film
For The Great Gatsby:
“The Harlem Renaissance: A
Cultural Revolution (Prentice
Hall text, p. 910-911)
“The Great Gatsby: Primary
Sources from the Roaring
Twenties” – Library of
Congress
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
classroommaterials/lessons/
gatsbypreparation.html
“Things to Worry About,”
Letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald
to his daughter, 1933
www.lettersofnote.com/2012/
03/things-to-worry-about.
Html
-“Gatsby’s Green Light
Beckons a New Set of
Strivers,” by Sara Rimer Feb
20, 2008 www.nytimes.com
‘The Great Gatsby Paired
Poetry”
http://home.comcast.net/
~renneisen/gatsby_poems.htm
-WWI Poetry – Wilfred
Owen, Sasson, Rupert Brook
-Secondary Solutions
Common Core Aligned
literature Guide for The Great
Gatsby