LITERARY ANALYSIS CURRICULUM MAP

Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Short Stories: This
Honor: This unit
Beauty: In this unit,
unit uses the short focuses on the novel as students explore a new
story to review
a literary form and
literary form poetry
common literary
explores the unifying
and focus on poetic
elements, as well as
theme of honor in the
forms, rhyme, and
for appreciating the American class, To Kill a
meter.
art of great
Mockingbird.
storytelling.
Novels:
Stories:
To Kill a Mocking Bird by
The Cask of
Harper Lee
Amontillado by
Edgar Allen Poe
The Gift of the Magi
by OHenry
Thank You, Maam
by Langston Hughes
The Scarlet Ibis by
James Hurst
The Most Dangerous
Game by Richard
Connell
Lamb to the
Slaughter by Roald
Dahl
The Necklace by
Guy de Maupassant
Unit 5
Heroism: This unit
begins with an
introduction to Greek
mythology and the
Heros Journey, and
then focuses on epic
poetry as a genre.
Students are
introduced to classic
and more recent epics,
as well as to
contemporary works of
non-fiction that
address the theme of
heroism.
Epic Poem:

Unit 6
Unit 7
Non-Fiction &
Core Project:
Reflection: This unit
Students select one
focuses on three kinds choice novel to read
of literary non-fiction that exemplifies one
the memoir, the essay,
of the themes
and the speech with discussed throughout
reflection as the
the year: honor,
common aspect of
beauty, fate, heroism,
these genres.
or reflection.

Unit 4
Fate: This unit uses
two classic tragedies to
address a new literary
form for the grade level
the drama.
Plays:
Oedipus Rex
Romeo and Juliet by
William Shakespeare

Unit 8