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1 Module Title: COLLECTION 2 THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Grade / Subject: English 9 Timeline: 6-8 weeks Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections Thematic Overview: In this collection, students will explore the universal desire for freedom. Students will understand that all over the world work to gain freedom from political and other types of oppression. Students will read and write about and discuss how people find freedom in different circumstances. Module Objectives: Analyze a seminal U.S. document and the impact of its rhetoric Analyze connections between ideas and events and analyze accounts in different mediums. Analyze how an author unfolds events in a diary and analyze the impact of word choice on tone. Determine author's point of view and analyze accounts in different mediums Analyze an author's point of view and cultural background, and also analyze an author's choices about style and structure. Write an argument defending whether freedom should be given or must be demanded while synthesizing multiple texts. Synthesize multiple documents to defend an argument. Make a claim and develop the claim with valid reasons and relevant evidence from the text Anticipate opposing claims and counter them will well-supported reasons and relevant evidence. Establish clear, logical relationships among claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. Analyze the use of rhetoric to develop argument. Analyze point of view and word choice to determine theme. Include an introduction, a logically structured body linked with transitions, and evidence Essential Questions: 1. What is impact of rhetoric in developing and argument and attaining freedom? 2. What is the effect of synthesizing multiple perspectives regarding a singular event in history? 3. What is similar/different about the struggle for freedom in other countries? 4. Should freedom be given or must it be demanded? Academic Vocabulary: Decline, enable, impose, integrate, reveal

2 PA CORE STANDARDS 1.2 Reading Informational Text 1.4 Writing Grammar Eligible Content CC C Apply appropriate strategies to analyze, interpret, and evaluate how an 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 that are drawn between them. CC D Determine an author s particular point of view and analyze how rhetoric advances the point of view. CC E Analyze in detail how an author s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text. CC F Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts. CC I Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts. CC A Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information CC B Write with a sharp, distinct focus identifying topic, task, and audience. CC D Organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension; provide a concluding statement or section. CC G Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics." "CC H Write with a sharp, distinct focus identifying topic, task, and audience. Introduce the precise claim. CC I Distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims; develop claim(s) fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience s knowledge level and concerns. CC J Create organization that establishes clear relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence; use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims; provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented. CC K Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition. Use precise language and domainspecific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms of the discipline Subject/ verb agreement Suffixes that form Nouns

3 in which they are writing. CC M Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events." CC S Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and literary nonfiction." 1.3 Reading Literature 1.5 Speaking and Listening CC B Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject." CC D Determine the point of view of the text and analyze the impact the point of view has on the meaning of the text. CC E Analyze how an author s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create an effect. CC A Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grade-level topics, texts, and issues, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively." CC B Evaluate a speaker s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence." CC C Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source." CC D Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning; ensure that the presentation is appropriate to purpose, audience, and task." CC E Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks." CC F Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to add interest and enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence." CC G Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking based on Grades 9 10 level and content."

4 Text Sets: ANCHOR TEXT Informational Text SPEECH I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. Close Read Screencasts Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions Analyze Seminal U.S. Documents IWB Lesson: Comparing Texts Selection Assessments: Selection Tests Selection Performance Tasks Writing: Analysis, Account, Letter Speaking: Research and Oral Report Media: Graphic Novel Unit Assessments: ANCHOR TEXT: Informational Text HISTORY from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People s History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner CONNECTED SELECTION VIDEO AMERICA The Story of Us: March on Washington Close Read Screencasts Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text and Media Questions Analyze Ideas and Events Level Up Tutorial: Point-by-Point Organization Collection Assessment Collection Performance Task: Writing an argument citing evidence from collection texts in support of a claim Common Assessment CLOSE READER Informational Text SPEECH A Eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Robert F. Kennedy Short Response Dig Deeper IWB Lesson: Identifying Author s Purpose and Perspective Text: Informational Text DIARY from Cairo: My City, Our Revolution by Ahdaf Soueif Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions Analyze Ideas and Events Conduct Research on the Web

5 Text: Literary Text MEMOIR from Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi CONNECTED MEDIA GRAPHIC NOVEL from Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi Text: Literary Text SHORT STORY The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text and Media Questions Determine Point of View Level Up Tutorial: Point of View Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions IWB Lesson: Irony Close Reader : Literary Text SHORT STORY Short Response Dig Deeper The Prisoner Who IWB Lesson: Point of View Wore Glasses by Bessie Head Thematic Connection Map Follows:

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7 Module Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (in conjunction with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collection 2 The Struggle for Freedom) Grade / Subject: English 9 Timeline: 6-8 weeks Module Overview: Looking at a situation from different Point of Views Perspective of You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view [ ] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Module Objectives: Support Inferences about theme Establish a communal context for the period in which Lee was writing her famous novel. Discuss the various socio-political issues and climates prevalent during this era. Compare and contrast traditional Southern social attitudes and Atticus attitude towards other people Describe the social impact on characters attitudes and actions (Aunt Alexandria, Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, etc.) Analyze character motivations Analyze impact of dialect, socio-economic, and education levels Analyze impact of cultural background on POV Cite textual evidence to support inferences Determine purpose and POV Thematic Focus: The Struggle for Freedom In connection with Collection 2 of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt English 9 Anthology Essential Questions: How does the period in which Lee was writing effect the issues that she discusses? What helps with establishing the narrator as an adult describing a childhood memory, rather than a child telling a story as it happens?

8 PA CORE STANDARDS 1.2 Reading Informational Text 1.4 Writing CC C Determine an author s particular point of view and analyze how rhetoric advances the point of view CC E Analyze in detail how an author s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text CC D Organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension; provide a concluding statement or section. Text Set: Anchor Activities: Introduction PowerPoint/ Background Web quest time period, Nelle Harper Lee, The Scottsboro Boys, and Jim Crow Laws etc. Activities: Anticipatory Set/ Pre-Reading Questions Activities: Gallery Walk Pre-reading (discuss Scottsboro boys, past historical cases of injustice Activities: Walking in Shoes Activity (based on crawling in skin speech) Activities: Say, Mean, Matter Chart (CH. 12, 15, 24) FILM Activities: Trial Notes/ Textual Evidence Activity Activities: Point of View Essay- Trial Verdict Activities: Theme Activity (Jigsaw-share out) TEXT: To Kill a Mockingbird Activities: Connecting injustice to today What Reading Assessments: Active Reading Guides, Chapter Quiz, Final Exam, Discussions/ DEJ s, Incorporation of Vocabulary Acquisition Writing Prompts & Assessments: Timed Writings, RAFT Writing Prompts, Editorial Writing Activity Grammar Assessments: Using the correct form of a homophone while writing Subject/ verb agreement

9 would you do? Activity Activities: Theme Activity (Jigsaw-share out) & Theme Board Activity Activities: The Urban Legend of Boo Radley Activity Activities: Final projects Compare/Contrast essay (500 words/main characters), Create a model of Maycomb/Theme Collage Activities: Literary Circle Discussion Ch. 1-11, & Activities: - Character Mapping Activity Activities: Connecting your Life Experiences to Mockingbird Writing Assignment Activities: The Maycomb Tribune Tom Robinson is Dead Writing Prompt

10 Module Title: COLLECTION 4 SWEET SORROW Grade / Subject: English 9 Timeline: 6-8 weeks Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections Thematic Overview: In this collection, students will explore the nature of love and the conflicts surrounding it. Students will read and write about and discuss ideas about how love is and has been viewed in various contexts. They will explore the concept of love through the lens of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a timeless play by William Shakespeare. Module Objectives: Analyze character motivations and parallel plots Support Inferences about theme Analyze an author s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events (parallel plots) and manipulate time Analyze Shakespeare s use of language (verse, prose, rhythm, rhyme) and its importance in setting mood and establishing character Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text Determine a theme and analyze its development Cite textual evidence to support inferences and assertions Determine purpose and Point of View Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussion Interpret figures of speech in context Essential Questions: 5. How can something intangible impact your life? 6. How is Shakespeare s play received today versus how they were received during the Elizabethan Era? 7. How can you have something that cannot be owned? Academic Vocabulary: Attribute, commit, expose, initiate, underlie

11 PA CORE STANDARDS 1.2 Reading Informational Text 1.4 Writing Grammar Eligible Content CC C Apply appropriate strategies to analyze, interpret, and evaluate how an 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 that are drawn between them. CC F Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts. CC A Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information CC B Write with a sharp, distinct focus identifying topic, task, and audience. CC C Develop and analyze the topic with relevant, well-chosen, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience s knowledge of the topic; include graphics and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension." CC D Organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension; provide a concluding statement or section. CC F Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. CC M Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events." CC S Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying gradelevel reading standards for literature and literary nonfiction." CC T Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience." Puns Context Clues Synonyms

12 1.3 Reading Literature 1.5 Speaking and Listening CC A Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text." CC B Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject." CC C Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. CC E Analyze how an author s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create an effect. CC F Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts. CC G Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment. CC H Analyze how an author draws on and transforms themes, topics, character types, and/or other text elements from source material in a specific work. CC I Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools. CC A Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grade-level topics, texts, and issues, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively."

13 Text Sets: TEXT: Informational Text ESSAY from Love s Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman TEXT: Literary Text POEM AND VIDEO My Shakespeare by Kate Tempest * ANCHOR TEXT Literary Text DRAMA The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions Analyze Ideas Level Up Tutorial: Reading for Details Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing Text and Video Questions Analyze Source Material Level Up Tutorial: Universal and Recurring Themes Close Read Screencasts Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions Analyze Author s Choices: Parallel Plots Level Up Tutorial: Making Inferences About Characters Selection Assessments: Selection Tests Teacher-Created Active Reading Guides, Act I -V Quizzes, Final Exam, Discussions/ Double Entry Journals, Selection Performance Tasks: Writing: Essay, Journal Speaking: Discussion, Debate, Dramatic Reading, Letter Media: Reflection Teacher-Created Tasks: Scene Rewrite Activity, Translating Shakespearean Language, Timed Writings, RAFT Writing Prompts, Double entry Journal Unit Assessments: Collection Assessment Collection Performance Task: Write an Analytical Essay Teacher-Created Common Assessment Supporting Media: Video Biograhy Channel: William Shakespeare Teacher-Created Activities: Anticipatory Set Introduction Notes on William Shakespeare, Literary terms, and The Globe Theater Prologue Rewrite Activity Scene Re-write activities Act III Scene V Summary Review Activity Acts I V Film to Text Comparison Scene Summary Block Activity and Discussion Understanding and Using Shakespeare s Terms Web quest

14 * CLOSE READER Literary Text DRAMA from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Short Response Dig Deeper IWB Lesson: Word Choice and Tone Supporting Media: Video Biograhy Channel: William Shakespeare Text: Literary Text MYTH Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions Analyze Source Material IWB Lesson: Theme/Central Text: Literary Text SHORT STORY Duty by Pamela Rafael Berkman Collaborative Discussion Activity Analyzing the Text Questions Author s Choices: Point of View Level Up Tutorial: Point of View

15 Module Title: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (in conjunction with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collection 4 Sweet Sorrow) Grade / Subject: English 9 Timeline: 6-8 weeks Module Overview: Students are introduced to the language and timelessness of the characters, theme, motifs, and the complexities of the plot in Shakespeare s enduring classic. Module Objectives: Analyze character motivations and parallel plots Support Inferences about theme Analyze an author s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events (parallel plots) and manipulate time Analyze Shakespeare s use of language (verse, prose, rhythm, rhyme) and its importance in setting mood and establishing character Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text Determine a theme and analyze its development Cite textual evidence to support inferences and assertions Determine purpose and Point of View Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussion Interpret figures of speech in context Thematic Focus: Sweet Sorrow In connection with Collection 4 of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt English 9 Anthology Essential Questions: How can something intangible impact your life? How is Shakespeare s play received today versus how they were received during the Elizabethan Era? How can you have something that cannot be owned?

16 PA CORE STANDARDS 1.2 Reading Informational Text 1.3 Reading Literature Grammar Eligible Content A Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text B Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject C Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme D Determine the point of view of the text and analyze the impact the point of view has on the meaning of the text E Analyze how an author s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create an effect F Analyze how words and phrases shape meaning and tone in texts H Analyze how an author draws on and transforms themes, topics, character types, and/or other text elements from source material in a specific work K Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently. 1.4 Writing D Organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension; provide a concluding statement or section. Puns Context Clues Synonyms Academic Vocabulary attribute commit expose initiate underlie E Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms of the discipline in which they are writing.

17 Text Set: Anchor Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Anticipatory Set Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Introduction Notes on William Shakespeare, Literary terms, and The Globe Theater Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Scene Re-write activities Act III Scene V Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Summary Review Activity Acts I V Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Film to Text Comparison Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Scene Summary Block Activity and Discussion Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Understanding and Using Shakespeare s Terms Text: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Prologue Rewrite Activity TEXT: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Activities: Web quest Reading Assessments: Active Reading Guides, Act I -V Quiz, Final Exam, Discussions/ Double Entry Journals, Incorporation of Vocabulary Acquisition Writing Prompts & Assessments: Scene Rewrite Activity/ Translating Shakespearean Language Timed Writings, RAFT Writing Prompts Write an Analytical Essay Grammar Assessments: Synonyms, Puns, Context Clues Listening and Speaking Focus: Dramatic Reading Monologue/ Dialogue Class Discussion Reading Focus: Theme Soliloquy Foil ( in text) Foreshadowing Imagery Drama Meter/ Iambic Pentameter

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