Chelsea Schwark

Curriculum Map
Week
August 4

August 11

August 18

August 25

September 1

September 8

September 15

September 22
September 29

October 6
October 13
October 20

October 27

Topic/Reading
Introductions and Classroom Policies
Four Items presentations
Pod Formations
Finish Four Items presentations
Elements of fiction review
What to look for when you read activity
Unit: 1865-1914
Time period discussion
Introduction to Mark Twain
Mark Twain: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
The War Prayer
Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Overview of Regionalism
Joel Chandler Harris: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, How Mr.
Rabbit was too Smart for Mr. Fox
Introduction to Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin: Desirees Baby, The Story of an Hour
Post-abolition slavery discussion
Introduction to Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington: from Up From Slavery, chapters 1, 2, and
14
Introduction to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Begin Ethan Frome
Continue Ethan Frome
Introduction to Ethan Frome creative project
Finish Ethan Frome
Work on Ethan Frome creative projects
Optional creative project conferences
Fall Recess
Ethan Frome Creative project presentations
Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Introduction to Naturalism
Jack London: To Build a Fire
Begin To Build a Fire film
Complete To Build a Fire film
Unit wrap-up discussion

November 3

November 10

November 17

November 24
December 1

December 8

December 15
December 22
December 29
January 5

January 12

January 19
January 26
February 2

February 9

Literary Essay introduction

Thesis statements discussion
Begin Thesis statement conferences
Essay workshops in computer lab
Finish thesis statement conferences
Peer reviews
Essays due Monday
Unit: 1914-1945
Time period discussion
Introduction to WWI
WWI short selections packet
Introduction to Robert Frost
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods on a
Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice
William Carlos Williams: The Young Housewife, The Red
Wheelbarrow, This is Just to Say
Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Begin The Great Gatsby
Finish The Great Gatsby
Begin The Great Gatsby movie (2013)
Start on Gatsby creative projects
Complete The Great Gatsby movie
Begin compare/contrast adaptations essay
Continue working on Gatsby creative projects
Gatsby creative project presentations
Compare/contrast adaptations essay due no later than Friday
Winter Recess
Winter Recess
Introduction to T.S. Elliot
T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland
Claude McKay: If We Must Die, America
Introduction to Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants
Introduction to Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes: I, Too, Mother to Son
Introduction to John Steinbeck
Begin The Grapes of Wrath
Continue The Grapes of Wrath
Finish The Grapes of Wrath
Begin The Grapes of Wrath character analysis profiles
Begin The Grapes of Wrath creative projects
Continue working on The Grapes of Wrath character analysis profiles

February 16
February 23

March 2

March 9
March 16
March 23

March 30

April 6

April 13

April 20
April 27

May 4

May 11

May 18

Character analysis profiles gallery walk

The Grapes of Wrath creative project presentations
Introduction to Literary Essay 2
Optional thesis conferences
Essay workshops in computer lab
Peer reviews
Literary Essay 2 due no later than Monday
Unit wrap-up discussion
Unit: 1945-the Present
Time period discussion
Theodore Roethke Wish for a Young Wife
John Cheever: The Swimmer
Spring Recess
Introduction to Flannery OConnor
Flannery OConnor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Joyce Carol Oates: Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Introduction to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK: I Have A Dream
I Have A Dream speech presentations
Raymond Carver: Cathedral
Sherman Alexie: This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
Sign up for book groups
Prepare for Igniting Change unit
Unit: Igniting Change: an exploration of life-changing novels
Separate into Pay it Forward, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, and
Tuesdays With Morrie groups
Begin book groups
Continue book groups
Continue book groups
Begin thinking about final creative projects
Introduction to Igniting Change proposals
Continue book groups
Continue planning final creative projects
Continue Igniting Change proposals
Finish book groups
Igniting Change proposals carousel presentations
Continue working on final creative projects
Finish final creative projects
Final creative project presentations