HCSHigh School English Language Arts – English III Honors Curriculum Map
Literary Eras/Essential Questions/ Novels
(Choose a minimum of one novel in addition to the summer reading selection or follow procedures for alternate choices.) / Units Containing Selections
(Based on District-Adopted Text – Holt, Elements of Literature, British Literature, 6th Course) and District Approved Texts / Informational Texts
(Choose a minimum of one per unit.) / Non-print Texts
* available in text and teacher resources through
(Choose a minimum of one per unit.) (Appropriate substitutions acceptable) / Indicator Focus
E3 / Grammar Skill Focus / Writing Objective Correlation
Anglo-Saxon
440-1066
What moves
a hero to act? / Required:
fromBeowulf (P)
Choose at least 1:
“The Seafarer” (P)
“The Wife’s Lament” (P)
“The Wanderer” (P)
fromGilgamesh (P)
fromTheIliad (P) / Introduction to the Period
The Epic Tradition / *Graphic novel of Beowulf
**Electronic Beowulf
Who’s Who in Beowulf (audio files to help w/pronunciation)
Beowulf audio (Old English)
Map of mediaeval Scandinavia
Map of Anglo-Saxon England
excerptsfromLord of the Rings or Star Wars (films) / 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.2, E4-3.3, 3.4, 4.4, 5.3 / Subject-Verb Agreement / Objective 6
Objective 7
Objective 11
Objective 12
Middle Ages
1066-1485
What moves a hero to act? / Required:
The Prologuefrom Canterbury Tales (P)
Choose at least 1:
from“The Pardoner’s Tale”
from“The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
Choose at least 1:
fromSir Gawain and the Green Knight (F)
fromLe Morte d’Arthur (F) / Medieval Narrative
Analyzing Style: Key Details
IntroductiontoThe Canterbury Tales
from“Walking to Canterbury” / Animated Bayeux Tapestry
*London to Canterbury (map)
Canterbury Tales audio (Middle English)
The Ellesmere Chaucer (illuminated manuscript)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by John Howe (painting)
*David with the Head of Goliath by Bernardo Strozzi (painting)
excerptsfromFirst Knight (film) / 1.1, 1.3, 1.5,1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, E4-3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.4 / Progressive Forms of Verbs
Transitive/ Intransitive Verbs / Objective 2
Objective 4
Objective 5
Objective 7
Renaissance
1485-1660
How do our hearts and minds influence our actions? / Choose at least 1:
Macbeth (D)
Hamlet (D)
As You Like It (D)
Choose at least 1:
“Of Studies” (NF)
from“Female Orations” (NF)
“Tilbury Speech” (NF)
“Meditation 17” (NF)
Choose at least 2:
One Shakespearean sonnet (P)
“On My First Son” (P)
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (P)
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (P)
“To His Coy Mistress” (P)
“To the Virgins to Make Much of Time” (P)
“Death Be Not Proud” (P)
Choose at least 1:
from“ThePilgrim’s Progress” (F)
fromParadise Lost (P)
“Psalm 23” (P)
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
any world literature text from Collection 3 / Introduction to the Period
Renaissance Poetry
Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays / excerptsfromHamlet[Gibson or Branagh version](film)
excerptsfromMacbeth[Thames video collection](film)
StandardDeviantsSchoolMacbeth Basics
Standard Deviants (video)“School Characters of Macbeth” (video)
“The Complete Dramatic Workshop”—Macbeth (video)
*Different Social Positions of Women by FrenchSchool (illustration)
*The Walk by Marc Chagall (painting)
*The Ancient Days by William Blake (illustration)
excerptsfromLuther (film) / 1.3, 1.5-7, E4-3.3, 4.2, 5.4, 5.6, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8
1.1, 1.3-7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, E4-3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 5.4 / Complements
Imperative Mood
Modifiers
Adjective/ Adverb Clauses
Sentence Combining / Objective 5
Objective 8
Objective 9
Objective 10
Restoration
1660-1800
How can order and civilization affect human behavior?
Novel Choice:
Gulliver’s Travels(1150L-1330L) / Required:
“A Modest Proposal” (NF)
Choose at least 1:
fromAn Essay on Man (P)
fromThe Rape of the Lock (P)
“To the Ladies” (P)
Choose at least 1:
fromGulliver’s Travels (F)
fromDon Quixote (F)
Choose at least 1:
from“The Diary of Samuel Pepys” (NF)
from“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (NF)
from“The Education of Women” (NF) / Introduction to the Period
1 Dead in Attic
The Rise of the Novel
Diary of Samuel Pepys Weblog
Recognizing Persuasive Techniques
Form and Function in the Age of Reason
Identifying Tone
FromA Dictionary of the English Language / *Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition Feast by James Gillray (Etching)
Hogarth paintings
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss (children’s book)
excerptsfrom Gulliver’s Travels (video)
The Onion(website)
Political Cartoons / 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.4, 2.7, 4.4, 6.8
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5-7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.2, E4-3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 5.4 / Pronoun/ Antecedent Agreement
Use of Literary Present
Sequence of Verb tenses
Irregular verbs
Subjunctive Mood / Objective 4
Objective 6
Objective 8
Romantic Age
1798-1832
How can we use imagination to discover truth?
Novel Choice:
Frankenstein(1170L) / Required (Choose at least one poem from each of the following poets):
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats / Introduction to the Period
Themes of Romantic Poetry
Recognizing Patterns of Organization
Savings Creatures Great and Small
Forms of Romantic Poetry
Comparing and Contrasting / *The Corn Field by John Constable (oil painting)
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (oil painting)
Romantic Era Art
Frankenstein (online exhibit through the National Library of Medicine) / 1.2, 1.3, 1.5-7, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, E4-3.3, 3.4, 4.4, 4.6, 5.3 / Verb tense consistency
Appositives
Prepositional Phrases
Sentence Structure
Direct/Indirect quotations / Objective 3
Objective 5
Objective 11
Victorian Age
1832-1901
How can appearance be different from reality?
Novel Choices:
The Return of the Native(1040L)
Jane Eyre(890L)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles(1160L) / Choose at least 2:
Ulysses (P)
“My Last Duchess” (P)
“The Lady of Shalott” (P)
“Porphyria’s Lover” (P)
“Sonnet 43” (P)
“Are You Digging on MY Grave” (P)
“To an Athlete Dying Young” (P)
Choose at least 1:
“The Mark of the Beast” (F)
“How MuchLand Does a Man Need?” (F)
“The Bet” (F)
“The Jewels” (F) / Introduction to the Period
The Night Soil
Figurative Language
Realism
When Elements Go Extreme / *”Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange (photograph)
*”The Have and the Have-Nots” by Andrew Holbrooke (photograph)
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
excerptsfromTess of the D’Urbervilles
The Victorian Web
excerptsfromGilbert and Sullivan operas / 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, E4- 3.3, 4.2, 4.4, 5.6, / Adjectives and Adverbs
Participles
Dangling Modifiers / Objective 7
Objective 9
Objective 10
Modern Age
1900-Present
How does experience shape our view of the world?
Novel Choices:
1984(1090L)
Brave New World (870L)
Drama Choice:
Pygmalion / Required:
“Shooting an Elephant” (NF)
Choose at least 1:
Dulce et Decorum Est (P)
“The Rear-Guard” (P)
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (P)
“The Second Coming” (P)
“Digging” (P)
Choose at least 1:
“A Soldier’s Declaration” (NF)
“I Believe in the British Empire” (NF)
“Blood, Sweat, and Tears” (NF)
“A Room of One’s Own” (NF)
Choose at least 1:
“The Demon Lover” (F)
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” (F)
“Araby” (F)
“No Witchcraft for Sale” (F)
“Once upon a Time” (F) / Introduction to the Period
War Literature
Under Heavy Fire in Iraq
Identifying and Critiquing an Author’s Argument
Themes of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Analyzing Details
Trapped Australian Miners Rescued
Irony
Identifying Cause and Effect / WWI propaganda posters
Propaganda Media
*”A Writer’s Influence” (cartoon)
“Virginia Woolf” [famous author series] (video)
excerptsfromGattaca (video)
WWII Propaganda
British WW2 Propaganda Posters / 1.3, 1.5, 2.2, 2.6, 3.1, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1-7
1.5, 1.6, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 4.3, 5.6
1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.6, 5.3, 5.4 / Punctuation for Clarity
Transitions
Independent/
and Subordinate Clauses
Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives
Active and Passive Voice
Participial Phrases
Parallelism
Sentence Variety / Objective 1
Choose a minimum of one novel in addition to the summer reading selection or follow procedures for alternate choices.
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