First Nine Weeks What makes an American? Who owns the land? Are people basically good? Does everyone have a dark side? Poetry: Puritan Poetry Strategy To My Dear and Loving Husband Upon the Burning of Our House Huswifery Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God A Speech in the Virginia Convention The Declaration of Independence The Crisis Jonathan Edwards and Patrick Henry Persuasive Techniques Supplemental Journals by Lewis and Clark Etymology of specialized vocabulary, politics, government (p. 242), huswifery E3-3.1 Words from Middle English (p. 253) Latin roots (fic) p. 273 E3-3.2 thru E3-3.4 Word Choice and inverted sentence structure E3-4.2 Variety in sentence type and structure (pp. 246, 248) E3-4.2 Internal and end sentence punctuation Commas to indicate appositives Personal narrative E3-4.1 and E3-4.3 Choosing a research topic (persuasive topic) E3-6.1, E3.6.2, E3-6.8 Constructing inquiry questions E3-6.1 thru E3-6.8 Literature: The Crucible (see backwards design unit) The Scarlet Letter Anderson School District Five Page 1 2012-2013
Second Nine Weeks Where do people look for the truth? Why do people break rules? Is anything worth dying for? Are we responsible for the whole world? Literary: The Devil and Tom Walker A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises Snowbound/The First Snowfall The Masque of the Red Death Asking Inferential Questions: Solving the Mystery The Raven The Minister s Black Veil I Hear America Singing Song of Myself The Noiseless Patient Spider Because I Could not Stop for Death My Life Closed The Sail I Heard a Fly Buzz My Life Greek Roots - path (p. 425) Latin Root ambi (p. 472) Latin Root (Lud) (p. 594) E3-3.2 and E3-3.4 Participles and participial phrases as modifiers (pp. 407, 426) Effective writing with imperative sentences and dashes (p. 444) Quotation marks in dialogue (p.; 480) Consistency in verb tenses (pp. 480, 604) Subject-Verb agreement Reflective Essay (p. 474) Compare-contrast their experience with a character in this unit. E3-4.1 Evaluate credibility of sources and organizing information E3-6.8 Reading: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ACTIVITY/STRATEGY Stream of Consiousness Journal Anderson School District Five Page 2 2012-2013
Second Nine Weeks Puritan Transcendentalism Comparison Activity Self-Reliance Nature Civil Disobedience The Gettysburg Address The Emancipation Proclamation Supplemental Reading: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Persuasive Letter Persuasive Letter Fiction: Copper Sun (CP only) The Poisonwood Bible (Honors) Of Mice and Men Use Migrant Mother picture by Dorothea Lange and follow Inference Strategies: Observe to Infer and What I Learn from Reading + What I Already Know = What I Infer Their Eyes Were Watching God (hurricane season) Anderson School District Five Page 3 2012-2013
Third Nine Weeks Can America achieve equal rights? How are minority roles changing? Is it important to face reality? Who has the power to make the rules? Textbook: The Autobiography of Mark Twain The Outcasts of Poker Flat A Wagner Matinee The Open Boat The Law of Life The Yellow Wallpaper Tea Party Activity Roughing It Into the Air Latin Root equ Latin Root rag E3-3.2 and E3-3.4 Denotation and connotation E3-3.1 and E3-3.4 Active and passive voice Gerunds and Gerund phrases Verb tenses Coordinating conjunctions Punctuation in dialogue Writing persuasive research paper E3-6.8 Documentation of sources E3-6.3 Primary and secondary sources E3-6.7 Process log on documentation E3-6.3 Fiction: Huckleberry Finn The Poisonwood Bible Placement of modifiers and word placement to avoid ambiguity Idiomatic usage Anderson School District Five Page 4 2012-2013
Fourth Nine Weeks What is the American Dream? What is modern? How can people honor their heritage? Are we responsible for the whole world? Textbook: Chicago Grass Acquainted with the Night Nothing Gold Can Stay Out, Out, J. Alfred Prufrock Prufrock Modernism Activity Winter Dreams A Worn Path A Rose for Emily The Life You Save May Be Your Own How it Feels to Be Colored Me Adam Ambush Life for My Child is Simple Primer for Blacks Why Soldiers Don t Talk Letter from Birmingham Jail Stride Toward Freedom Necessary to Protect Ourselves My Dungeon Shook ACTIVITY/STRATEGY American Literary Periods Project Greek Root cosm (p. 866) Latin Root med (p. 1016) Greek Prefix syn (p. 1171) E3-3.2 and E3-3.4 Effective use of infinitive phrases Vivid adjectives, creating imagery Comparative and Superlative Adjectives (p. 919 Techniques for establishing voice (pp. 951, 961) E3-4.5 Objective tone (pp. 974-977) E3-4.5 Point of view in writing (pp. 1024-1031) E3-4.5 Parallelism (p. 1050) Speech Oral presentations Writing portfolio reflections E3-4.1 Conduct a short research for a problem/solution and write a formal proposal E3-5.5 Anderson School District Five Page 5 2012-2013
Fourth Nine Weeks Supplemental Reading: Fiction: Their Eyes Were Watching God The Raisin in the Sun The Namesake The Great Gastby Great Gatsby Day Activity Tuesdays with Morrie The Hot Zone Anderson School District Five Page 6 2012-2013
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