English 10 North Branch High School 2012-2013

TRIMESTER 1
**NT: Narrative Text, HD: Historical Document, IT: Informational Text, LT: Linking Text

Unit 1: Puritan Era Literature: Hypocrisy in the New World

Texts
Activities

Concepts
Covered

ASSESSME
Common
NTS
Core
Standards

PRE-TEST:
PLAN TEST

ACT English and

Reading Tests

IT: The Psychological Power of Storytelling

Examining
storytelling as a
skill
Close reading and
reflection writing

Cite examples
from text, form
ideas based on
information

RI.910.1,RI.910.3, RI.910.4, RI.910.10

RL.9-10.4
W.9-10.10

IT: Native American Creation Stories

NT: Creation Tales

Story
remembering/rete
lling activity
Narrative Writing
Piece

Capitalization,
writing
conventions

L.9-10.1.a,b;
L.9SL.9-10.4

NT: Captivity Narratives:

Autobiography: Kidnapped Oludah Equiano
Autobiography: A Narrative of Captivity by Mary Rowlandson

ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS reading
group activities
ASSESSMENT:
Literature Circles
ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes

Main ideas,
themes, literary
examples,
group
collaboration
and discussion

SL. 9-10.1.a-d

Puritan
Overview
(PowerPoint)

Note taking

SL.9-10.5

ASSESSMEN
T: SOAPS
reading group
activities
ASSESSMEN
T: Literature
Circles
ASSESSMEN
T: One Word
Quizzes

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IT:Why I Wrote the Crucible by Arthur Miller
NT: Drama: The Crucible

Film: Monsters
Inc. 3 minute clip
Film: The
Crucible Clips
Modes of reading
silently, as a
group, in pairs,
and listening.
Citing text,
analyzing quotes
and characters
ASSESSMENT:
Vocabulary/Literar
y Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS reading
group activities
ASSESSMENT:
Literature Circles
ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
Character Map
ASSESSMENT:
Essay: Modern
Day Witch Hunt

IT: Girls with Mysterious Tourette-like Symptoms are Suffering from

Mass Hysteria

Examining mass
hysteria in a
modern context
Close reading and
reflection writing

NT: Sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Listening to

Mass hysteria
connections
Allegory, drama,
mass hysteria,
dialogue,
conflict,
protagonist,
antagonist, the
importance of
keeping your
good name,
static and
dynamic
characters,
biblical allusion

SL.9-10.2

Tie modern day

discrimination
to the injustice
of Salem Witch
Trials
Cite examples
from text, form
ideas based on
information

W.9-10.2.a-f
SL. 9-10.1.a-d

The idea of fear

RI.9-10.4,

RL.9-10.1,
RL.9-10.2,
RL.9-10.3,
RL.9-10.4,
RL.9-10.5,
RL.9-10.7,
RL.9-10.9,
RL. 9-10.10

ASSESSMEN
T:
Vocabulary/Lit
erary Quizzes
ASSESSMEN
T: SOAPS
reading group
activities
ASSESSMEN
T: Literature
Circles
ASSESSMEN
T: One Word
Quizzes
ASSESSMEN
T: Character
Map

RI.910.1,RI.910.3, RI.910.4, RI.910.10

RL.9-10.4
W.9-10.10

ASSESSMEN

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Sermon aloud
Find examples of
Gods Wrath

ruling the
puritans, fear of
God, simile,
metaphor,
hyperbole

RI.9-10.5,
RI.9-10.6

T: Compare
Puritan
Viewpoint to
that of
modern
religious
views

Simile
Metaphors
Tone
Theme
Aphorism

RI.9-10.1,
RI.9-10.4, 5,
6,

ASSESSMEN
T: Explain
Franklins
Virtues in
reference to
todays
society.

ASSESSMENT:
Compare Puritan
Viewpoint to that
of modern
religious views
ASSESSMENT:
Unit Test

Unit 2: The Age of Reason: The Insight of Our Forefathers

NT: Poor Richards Almanac and The Autobiography by Ben
Franklin

ASSESSMENT:
Explain Franklins
Virtues in
reference to
todays society.

W.9-10.2.a-f
SL.9-10.4

ASSESSMENT:
Choose 7 of the
10 Aphorisms to
explain in greater
detail.

HD: Speech to the Virginia Convention

Close reading
Reflective
Writing/answering
questions in
yellow boxes in
book.

W.9-10.1.b

ASSESSMEN
T: Choose 7
of the 10
Aphorisms to
explain in
greater detail.
Analyze
historical
documents, find
literary
significance,
how does it
relate to the
happenings of
the time

RI.9-10.9

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period?

Freedom and Equality: Pre-Civil War Literature

Slave Spirituals: Go Down Moses, Follow the Drinking Gourd,
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Finding clues in
the texts,
discussing
importance of
spirituals,
connections to
modern day
music
Listen to modern
musical versions
like Johnny Cashs
Swing Low
Sweet Chariot
Video: Reading
Rainbow: Follow
the Drinking
Gourd

NT: Narrative of Frederick Douglass

HD: Speech: Gettysburg address

IT: The Dangerous Mind of Mark Twain

Find codes that

teens use to keep
secrets from
adults in groups
Read and answer
questions/connec
t to slave
spirituals
Close
reading/identifyin
g parallelism
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS reading
group activities

Simile
Metaphors
Personification
Theme
Symbolism
Imagery
Allusion

Rl.9-10.4,
Rl.9-10.6

Connect the
spirituals to
freedom and
todays society

SL.9-10. 2, 3

New vocabulary

RI.9-10.1-6

Figurative
language
Writers craft
Understanding
authors
viewpoint and

SL.9-10.4

RI.9-10.9

ASSESSMEN
T: SOAPS
reading group

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ASSESSMENT:
Literature Circles

NT: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Modes of reading
silently, as a
group, in pairs,
and listening.
Citing text,
analyzing quotes
and characters
ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes

purpose
Experience
changes
viewpoint
Themes:
Superstition,
Mississippi
River, Money,
slavery, honor,
civilization v.
natural life

activities
ASSESSMEN
T: Literature
Circles
RL.9-10.1,
RL.9-10.2,
RL.9-10.3,
RL.9-10.4,
RL.9-10.5,
RL.9-10.7,
RL.9-10.9,
RL. 9-10.10

ASSESSMENT:
Banned Book ACT
Write
Graphic Thematic
Organizer
IT: Huck Finn: The Controversy over Removing the N Word
from Mark Twains Work

Cite examples
from text, form
ideas based on
information

POST TEST:
PLAN TEST
ASSESSMENT
: Final Exam

TRIMESTER 2
Unit 1: American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

RI.910.1,RI.910.3, RI.910.4, RI.910.10

RL.9-10.4
W.9-10.10

ASSESSMEN
T: One Word
Quizzes
ASSESSMEN
T: Banned
Book ACT
Write

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Texts

Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau

NT: From Self Reliance (Emerson)

Activities

Concepts
Covered

PRE-TEST:
PLAN TEST

ACT English
and Reading
Tests
Characteristic
s of
Rationalism,
Romanticism,
Transcendenta
lism

Characteristics of
Rationalism,
Romanticism,
Transcendentalis
m (Notes)
Group card sort
Read selection,
answer questions

Comm ASSESSMENT
on
S
Core
Stand
ards

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS Group
Reading
ASSESSMENT:
Literary Circles

Explain
quotations from
text

NT: From Resistance to Civil Government (Thoreau)

Read selection,
answer questions
Explain
quotations from
text

Characteristic
s of
Rationalism,
Romanticism,
Transcendenta
lism
Civil
Disobedience

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
W.9-

ASSESSMENT:

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NT: From Nature (Emerson)

Read selection,
answer questions
Explain
quotations from
text

IT: Death of An Innocent

Characteristic
s of
Rationalism,
Romanticism,
Transcendenta
lism

10.1.a-e
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

Examine the
commonalities of
Alex and the
transcendentalist
s
Reflective writing
Close reading

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

Examining select
chapters to
identify themes,
characters,
symbols,
allegories, and
social and

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10

ACT WRITINGCommunity
Service

Unit 2: American Romanticism and Gothic Literature

NT: The Scarlet Letter

ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS Group
Reading

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historical context
in

IT: (Historical Document) A Woman Caught in Adultery John 8:1-1

Close reading
and reflection
writing- Puritans
reading of the
Bible dictating
laws

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

IT: (Historical Document) Examination of Anne Hutchinson

Examining
womens rightsconnect to
modern day
examples: India
and others, racial
segregation

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

IT: Who Killed Arthur Dimmesdale

Examining the
death of
Dimmesdales
theories.
Close reading
and reflection
writing

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

RL.910.4
W.910.10
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

ASSESSMENT:
Literary Circles

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NT: Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

Connect short
story to novel

Citing
connections/b
acking up with
specific
details and
quotes

NT: The Raven

Film: The
Simpsons
version
Current Event:
The Raven
Reinvents Life
and Work of
Edgar Allen Poe

Repetition
Gothic
elements
Recurring
motifs in
Poes work

Connection to
literature/Medias
impact on lit
Graphic
Organizer:
Elements of
Gothic Lit (Fill
out as we read
all texts)

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

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NT :Poetry: Lenore, Annabelle Lee, Bridal Ballad

Graphic
Organizer:
Elements of
Gothic Lit (Fill
out as we read
all texts)

Recurring
motifs in
Poes work

ASSESSMENT:
Reading
Groups-Lit
Circles

NT: The Black Cat

ASSESSMENT:
Reading
Groups-Lit
Circles

Connect story
to Poes other
works and
identify gothic
elements
Recurring
motifs in
Poes work

IT: Reinventing Poe

Examining the
review of film
Close reading
and reflection
writing
Discuss Pop
Culture and
discuss whether
films make the
works more
popular with

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
SL.910.1.a-d
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
SL.910.1.a-d
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

ASSESSMENT:
Reading GroupsLit Circles

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readers (or vice
versa)

SL.910.1.a-d

Modern
examples:
Twilight, Hunger
Games, Super
heroes
NT: The Feather Pillow

Graphic
Organizer:
Elements of
Gothic Lit (Fill
out as we read
all texts)

Suspense
Gothic
Elements
Connect to
other works

Discuss Urban
Legends and
share known
ones

NT: The Yellow Wallpaper

Graphic
Organizer:
Elements of
Gothic Lit (Fill
out as we read
all texts)
Complete
questions
pertaining to
story

Mental
deterioration
Reality and
dreams
Post Partum
Depression

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
SL.910.1.a-d
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
W.910.9.a-b
SL.910.1.a-d

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IT: Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper

Graphic
Organizer:
Elements of
Gothic Lit (Fill
out as we read
all texts)
Examining the
conditions of
women in 1800s

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c

Suspense
Mental
Deterioratio
n

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
SL.910.1.a-d
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.9-

Treatment of
mental illness

NT: A Rose for Emily

Close reading
and reflection
writing
Graphic
Organizer:
Elements of
Gothic Lit (Fill
out as we read
all texts)
Read aloud
Discuss
vocabulary
Answer questions
about story

ASSESSMENT:
Gothic
Literature
Quizzes/ small
writing pieces

ASSESSMENT:
Gothic
Literature Test

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10.4
W.910.10
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c

Unit 3: American Poets

Film: Dead
Poets Society

LT: Poetry :
Emily Dickinson
Apparently with no surprise
Heart, we Will forget him
Some keep the Sabbath going to church
I taste a liquor never brewed
Tell the truth but tell it slant
Success is counted sweetest
Because I could not stop for Death

Alliteration
Punctuation
Allusion
Assonance
Personification
Metaphor
Simile

SOAPS
Connections
in texts
Connections
within
poetry
Authors
purpose
Use of
conventions
or lack
thereof

IT: American Masters: Whitman and Dickenson in text

Alliteration
Punctuation
Allusion
Assonance
Personification
Metaphor
Simile

SOAPS
Connections
in texts
Connections
within
poetry
Authors
purpose
Use of
conventions

W.910.1.a-e
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
SL.910.1.a-d
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.9-

ASSESSMENT:
Link Poetry to
other works read
in class in an
essay
ASSESSMENT:
Reading GroupsLit Circles

ASSESSMENT:
Reading GroupsLit Circles

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or lack
thereof
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
O, Captain, My Captain
Song of Myself (Selections)

Everday Man
Alliteration
Punctuation
Allusion
Assonance
Personification
Metaphor
Simile

Frost The Road Not Taken

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Acquainted with the Night

Alliteration
Punctuation
Allusion
Assonance
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Natural
Imagery

SOAPS
Connections
in texts
Connections
within
poetry
Authors
purpose
Use of
conventions
or lack
thereof

10.10
SL.910.1.a-d
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10
SL.910.1.a-d

ASSESSMENT:
Reading GroupsLit Circles

Post Test
Final Exam

TRIMESTER 3
**NT: Narrative Text, HD: Historical Document, IT: Informational Text

Unit 1: Roaring 20s-The American Dream of the Wealthy

Texts
Activities

Concepts
Covered

Comm ASSESSMENT
on
S
Core
Stand
ards

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PRE-TEST:
PLAN TEST
NT: The Great Gatsby

Close read select

chapters of text
Explain
quotations and
reasoning in the
text
Identify symbols
in text
Connect text to
other works
ASSESSMENT:
One Word
Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS Group
Reading
ASSESSMENT:
Literary Circles
Analyze chapter
summaries
Chapter
Questions
Film: Clips to
replace select
chapters

ACT English
and Reading
Tests
American
Dream Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Tone
Theme
Symbolism
Imagery
Characters,
themes,
citing from
novels
The American
Dream
Color
Symbolism

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS Group
Reading
ASSESSMENT:
Literary Circles
ASSESSMENT:
Color Symbolism
ASSESSMENT:
Letter to Daisy
ASSESSMENT:
Essay

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Graphic
Organizers
Color Symbolism
Activity

IT: When the Joneses Wear Jeans

Examining the
review of film
Close reading
and reflection
writing

Unit 2: The Great Depression- The Unattainable Dream of the Poor

Cite examples
from text,
form ideas
based on
information

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.10

ASSESSMENT:
Analysis of article
and group
discussion

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NT: Of Mice and Men
LT: Euthanasia Trial: Sons Will Be Proud

LT: Dustbowl Dance by Mumford and Sons

Character
Graphic
Organizer
Theme Graphic
Organizer
Illustration of
Setting
Examining the
review of film
Close reading
and reflection
writing
Anticipation/Reac
tion Guide
Group Discussion
Questions
AP Questions

Cite examples
from text
Setting as a
character
Historical
context
Vocabulary
enrichment
Flashback
American
Dream

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.2.a-f
W.910.4
W.910.5
W.910.6
W.910.9.a
W.910.10
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c

ASSESSMENT:
Analyzing theme
through use of text
MLA Citation
ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS Group
Reading
ASSESSMENT:
Literary Circles

Unit 3: The Harlem Renaissance A Dream Deferred for People of Color

HD: I Have a Dream Speech

Listen/View
Speech
Highlight
figurative
language

Allusion
Repetition
Modeling
American
Dream

LT: Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, I Too Am

American, A Dream Deferred

Connect the
struggles of

American
Dream

RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
RI.910.1,RI.

ASSESSMENT:
Connect pieces of

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Hughes to the
dreams of MLK

Drama: View A Raisin in the Sun

Song/ Poetry
Analysis:
Sam Cooke- A
Change Is Gonna
Come
Arrested
DevelopmentTennessee

Historical
Context
Allusion
Imagery

American
Dream
Money and
dreams

9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.2.a-f
W.910.4
W.910.5
W.910.6
W.910.9.a
W.910.10
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c
RI.910.1,RI.
9-10.3,
RI.910.4,
RI.910.10
RL.910.4
W.910.2.a-f
W.910.4
W.9-

literature in
writing
ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
SOAPS Group
Reading
ASSESSMENT:
Literary Circles

ASSESSMENT:
Connect pieces of
literature in
writing
ASSESSMENT:
One Word Quizzes
ASSESSMENT:
ACT PromptSchool uniforms
create uniformity?

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10.5
W.910.6
W.910.9.a
W.910.10
L.910.1.a-b
L.910.2.a-c