11th Grade Honors English Quarter 1 Curriculum Map Teacher: Mrs. Isaacs
Big Ideas:
1.Who owns the land?
2.What makes an explorer?
3.Are people basically good?
4.Who has the right to rule?
Essential Questions:
1. How do authors create meaning in literary and informational (nonfiction) texts?
1.How can we use techniques and strategies effectively in written communication?
2.How can we convey our ideas in precise Standard English with increasingly varied and complex vocabulary?
3.How do speakers use techniques and strategies in oral communication?
StandardsRI 11-12.4
RL 11-12.3
RI 11-12.2
RI 11-12.1
RL 11-12.2
RL 11-12.5
RI 11-12.9
RI 11-12.6
L 11-12.4
RI 11-12.8
W 11-12.1b
L 11-12.4
Learning Targets
RL and RI 11-12.4 Determine meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text (figurative, connotative, and technical meanings) analyze how an author and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.
RL 11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
RL and RI 11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text
RL and RI 11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
RL 11-12.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
RI 11-12. 5 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
RL and RI 11-12.9 Analyze 17th, 18th, and 19th century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
RI 11-12.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
L 11-12.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11-12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
RI 11-12.8 Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy.
SL 11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL 11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.
SL 11-12.5 Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Assessments
Tests, quizzes, Writing summaries, short answer and essay questions, projects, application activities, writing Memoirs, I Am Poems,
Power Point Visual Summary over “Plymouth Plantation”, Skill Application and Matching Quizzes, The Method (repetitions, binaries, anomalies, and strands)
Resources and Materials
McDougal Littell Literature Grade 11 American Lit.
“The World on the Turtle’s Back”
“Coyote and the Buffalo”
“The Way to Rainy Mountain”
Media Study: Stereotypes of Native Americans
“La Relacion”
“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquiano”
“from The General History of Virginia”
“from Of Plymouth Plantation”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th 1666”
“Huswifery”
Word Smart 3rd Edition The Princeton Review
McDougal Littell Resources: Grammar, Writing, Power Points, Media Study, Online Resources
Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation
Literature Circles, The Method (IU class), Summary, Projects, Analysis questions/ Handouts, Participation / Discussion
Summary , Literature Circles, Questions / Handouts, Participation/ Discussion, Media Study, Outlining,
Through Short answer / essay type questions
Short answer / essay type questions, Narrative writing: Memoir
Pretest, Flash cards (word/definition, pronunciation key, pictures) Post tests
Key Ideas: Puritan Beliefs / Tradition, Native American Experience, Early Settlers / Exploration, and Perceptions
Key Idea Questions for each selection:
1.How do we make sense of our world?
2.Why do we root for the “Bad Guy”?
3.What is your Heritage?
4.What’s the story behind the glory?
5.What does it mean to be a slave?
6.What makes a leader?
7.When does Hardship unite us?
8.What do you Value most?
Key Vocabulary: myth, Creation Myth, folk literature, Trickster Tales, archetypal characters, memoir, Primary Sources, historical context, Slave Narratives, Anecdotes, First Person, Third Person, Point of View, Syntax, Archaic Expressions, Narrator, Cultural Characteristics, Figurative Language (metaphor, extended metaphor, personification, hyperbole) , Archaic Language, and Inverted Syntax
Key Reading Strategies: Predict, Draw Conclusions, Analyze Structure, Descriptive Details, Sensory Details, Analyze Details, Summarize, Main Idea, and Clarify Meaning
Grammar Skills: Appositive, Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinate Conjunctions, Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun Agreement, Active vs. Passive Sentences, Active Verbs.
Writing: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, Transitions, Evidenced Writing, Thesis/Claims, Conclusions.
Early Writers: Native Americans (Iroquis), Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momoday, AlvarNunexCabeza de Vaca, OlaudahEquiano, John Smith, and William Bradford