ENG III CURRICULUM MAP
Unit / Selection Title / Genre / Lexile / Intervention Resources / Language / WritingUnit 1: A Gathering of Voices Anchor Standards:RL 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.4, 11-12.7 RI 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.4, 11-12.7, 11-12.8, 11-12.9
Part 1:
Text Set: Meeting of Cultures / The Earth on Turtle’s Back
When Grizzlies Walked Upright
from The Navajo Origin Legend
Susan Power Introduces Museum Indians
Museum Indians
from The Iroquois Constitution (A)
from A Journey Through Texas
Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville
from Of Plymouth Plantation
Contemporary Connection: Mission Update Mars Blog / Myth
Myth
Myth
Essay
Essay
Political Document
Exploration Narrative
Exploration Narrative
Narrative Account
Blog / 730L
1060L
940L
1510L
1400L
1270L
1440L / Pearson Language Study Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus p.90
Language:
Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Conventions:
Nouns
Pronouns
Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Tenses
(L 9-10.4) / Pearson: Autobiographical Narrative Workshop (pp. 188-195)
Graduation Project Weeks 1-3
Part 2:
Puritan Influence / To My Dear and Loving Husband
Huswifery
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (A) / Poem
Poem
Sermon / 1210L
Part 3:
Text Set:
A Nation is Born / from What to the Slave is the Fourth of July (E)
Speech in the Virginia Convention
Speech in the Convention
The Declaration of Independence (A)
from The American Crisis, Number 1 (A)
“To His Excellency, General Washington”
from The Autobiography
from Poor Richard’s Almanack
Straw Into Gold, The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Letter From the President’s House
Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House
Floor Plan of the President’s House / Speech
Speech
Speech
Political Document
Political Essay
Poem
Autobiography
Proverbs
Autobiography
Autobiography
Letter
Letter
Blueprint / 980L
1490L
1390L
1200L
1400L
500L
1240L
980L
1120L
Unit 1: Extended Focus: Speeches / Academic Vocabulary / Speaking and Listening / Additional Resources
Speeches / Develop
Evaluate
Individuals
Interact / Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Evaluate Persuasive Speech (p. 196-197)
Unit / Selection Title / Genre / Lexile / Intervention Resources / Language / Writing
Unit 2: A Growing Nation-Literature of the American Renaissance Anchor Standards: RL 11-12.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 RI 11-12.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Part 1:
Text Set: / The Devil and Tom Walker
“Commission of Meriwether Lewis”
Crossing the Great Divide
from “The Song of Hiawatha”
“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”
“Thanatopsis”
“Old Ironsides” / Short Story
Commission
Field Report
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem / 1130L
1340L
1450L / Pearson Language Study Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus p.90
Language:
Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Conventions:
Nouns
Pronouns
Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Tenses
(L 9-10.4) / Pearson: Autobiographical Narrative Workshop (pp. 188-195)W 11-12.3
Graduation Project Weeks 1-3
Part 2: / The Minister’s Black Veil
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
Where is Here?
from Moby Dick
from Nature
from Self-Reliance
Concord Hymn / Short Story
Short Story
Poem
Short Story
Novel Excerpt
Essay
Essay
Poem / 1250L
1410L
970L
960L
980L
Part 3:
Text Set: / from Walden (E)
from Civil Disobedience (A)
Water on Tap
South Florida Environmental Report / Essay
Essay
Functional Text
Expository Text / 1200L
980L
Part 4: / Emily Dickinson’s Poetry (includes exemplars)
from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass (A)
Walt Whitman ‘s Poetry / Poems
Essay
Poems
Unit 2: Extended Focus: Transcendentalism Poetry / Academic Vocabulary / Speaking and Listening / Additional Resources
Interpret / Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Unit / Selection Title / Genre / Lexile / Intervention Resources / Language / Writing
Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion-Literature of the Civil War and the Frontier Anchor Standards:RL 11-12. RI 11-12.6
Part 1:
Text Set:
A Nation Divided / An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
from Mary Chestnut’s Civil War
Recollections of a Private
A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
An Episode of War
from Black Boy
from My Bondage and My Freedom
Go Down, Moses
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The Gettysburg Address
Letter to His Son
An Account of an Experience with Discrimination / Short Story
Diary
Journal
Diary
Short Story
Autobiography
Autobiography
Spiritual
Spiritual
Speech
Letter
First Person Account / 1000L
1090L
1110L
1490L
1110L
1130L / Pearson Language Study Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus p.90
Language:
Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Conventions:
Nouns
Pronouns
Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Tenses
(L 9-10.4) / Pearson: Writing Workshop: Historical Investigation Report (p. 664)
Graduation Project Weeks
Part 2:
Forging New Frontiers / “The Boy’s Ambition” from Life on the Mississippi
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
To Build a Fire
Heading West
I Will Fight No More Forever / Autobiography
Short Story
Memoir
Short Story
Personal History
Speech / 1060L
Part 3:
Text Set:
Living in a Changing World / The Story of an Hour
“Douglas”
We Wear the Mask
Luke Havergal
Richard Cory
Lucinda Matlock
Richard Bone
A Wagner Matinee / Short Story
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Short Story / 960L
1410L
Unit 3: Extended Focus: / Academic Vocabulary / Speaking and Listening / Additional Resources
Narrative Nonfiction / Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Pearson: Oral Interpretation of a Literary Work (p. 676)
Unit / Selection Title / Genre / Lexile / Intervention Resources / Language / Writing
Unit 4: Disillusion, Defiance, and DiscontentAnchor Standards:RL 11-12.3
Part 1:
Text Set:
Facing Troubled Times / “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (E)”
The Imagist Poets
Winter Dreams (A)
“The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath
Migrant Mother
“Dust Bowl Blues”
“The Unknown Citizen”
“old age sticks”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“Of Modern Poetry”
“ArsPoetica”
“Poetry” / Poem
Poems
Short Story
Novel Excerpt
Photographs
Ballad
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem / 1090L
1230L / Pearson Language Study Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus p.90
Language:
Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Conventions:
Nouns
Pronouns
Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Tenses
(L 9-10.4) / Pearson: Writing Workshop: Multimedia Presentation of an Argument
Graduation Project Weeks 1
Part 2:
From Every Corner of the Land / from A White Heron (E)
In Another Country (A)
Ambush
A Rose for Emily
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
A Worn Path
The Night the Ghost Got In
“Chicago”
“Grass”
Robert Frost’s Poetry
Trapped in a Comic Book / Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Speech
Short Story
Short Story
Humorous Essay
Poem
Poem
Poems
Graphic Story / 1020L
1140L
1170L
780L
740L
740L
Part 3:
Text Set:
The Harlem Renaissance / The Negro Speaks of Rivers
“I, Too”
“Dream Variations”
“Refugee in America”
‘study the masters”
“For My Children”
“The Tropics in New York”
“A Black Man Talks of Reaping”
“From the Dark Tower”
from Dust Tracks on a Road (A) / Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Autobiography / 920L
Unit 1: Extended Focus: Short Stories / Academic Vocabulary / Speaking and Listening / Additional Resources
Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Pearson: Analyze a Nonprint Political Ad
Unit / Selection Title / Genre / Lexile / Intervention Resources / Language / Writing
Unit 5: Prosperity and ProtestAnchor Standards:RL 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.7
Part 1:
Text Set: / from Hiroshima
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Junk Rally
The Battle of the Easy Chair
Backing the Attack / Nonfiction
Poem
Poster
Editorial Cartoon
Editorial / 1230L / Pearson Language Study Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus p.90
Language:
Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Conventions:
Nouns
Pronouns
Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Tenses
(L 9-10.4) / Pearson: Writing Workshop: Argumentative Essay W 11-12.1
Graduation Project Weeks 1
Part 2: / The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The First Seven Years
Constantly Risking Absurdity
“Mirror” (A)
“Courage” (A)
“Cuttings”
“Cuttings (later)”
“The Explorer”
“Frederick Douglas
“One Art”
“Filling Station” / Short Story
Short Story
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem / 990L
1170L
Part 3:
Text Set: / The Rockpile
Life in His Language
Inaugural Address (A)
from “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (A)
The Crucible, Act I
The Crucible, Act II
The Crucible, Act III
The Crucible, Act IV
from Good Night, and Good Luck / Short Story
Eulogy
Speech
Letter
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Screenplay / 820L
1200L
1410L
1330L
Unit 5: Literary Focus: Drama / Academic Vocabulary / Speaking and Listening / Additional Resources
Determine
Theme
Text
Analyze
Interact
Complex
Account
Objective
Cite
Explicit
Textual Evidence
Logical
Conclusion
Inference
Analysis
Evidence/Proof
Uncertainty
Source / Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
Pearson: Analyze and Evaluate Entertainment Media
Unit / Selection Title / Genre / Lexile / Intervention Resources / Standards / Writing
Unit 6: New Voices, New FrontiersAnchor Standards:RL 11-12 RI 11-12.7, 11-12.10
Part 1:
Text Set:
Contemporary Fiction / Antojos
Everyday Use(A)
Everything Stuck to Him / Short Story
Short Story
Short Story / 980L
980L
460L / Pearson Language Study Workshop:
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus p.90
Language:
Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Conventions:
Nouns
Pronouns
Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Tenses
(L 9-10.4) / Pearson: Writing Workshop: Short Story
(p. 1448)
Graduation Project Weeks 1
Part 2:
Text Set:
Contemporary Poetry / “Traveling Through the Dark”
“The Secret”
“The Gift”
“Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper”
“Camouflaging the Chimera” (A)
“Streets”
“Hailey’s Comet”
“The Latin Dell: An ArsPoetica” (E) / Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Part 3:
Text Set:
Contemporary Nonfiction / “American Slang” from The American Language (E)
Onomatopoeia
Coyote v. Acme
One Day, Now Broken in Two (A)
Urban Renewal
Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth
Mother Tongue (E)
For the Love of Books
from The Woman Warrior
from The Names
Demographic Aspects of Surnames
The Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation / Essay
Essay
Essay
Essay
Oral History Transcript
Essay
Essay
Memoir
Memoir
Expository Text
Expository Text / 1320L
1520L
1060L
1160L
1080L
800L
1040L
Unit 6: Extended Focus: The Essay / Academic Vocabulary / Speaking and Listening / Additional Resources
Analysis
Cite
Conclusion
Evaluate
Explicit
Inference
Supportive
Textual
Thorough
Uncertain / Partner Discussions
Group Discussions
Seminar
College Board Recommended Reading List
Author / Title / Lexile / Genre / Grade LevelBeowulf / Epic Poem / 12
Achebe, Chinua / Things Fall Apart / 890L
Agee, James / A Death in the Family / 1020L / Novel
Austen, Jane / Pride and Prejudice / 1100L / Novel
Baldwin, James / Go Tell It on the Mountain / 1030L
Beckett, Samuel / Waiting for Godot / 1310L
Bellow, Saul / The Adventures of Augie March / 1040L
Bronte, Charlotte / Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily / Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert / The Stranger
Cather, Willa / Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey / The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton / The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate / The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph / Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore / The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen / The Red Badge of Courage
Dante / Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel / Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel / Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles / A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor / Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / 11
Dreiser, Theodore / An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre / The Three Muskateers
Eliot, George / The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph / Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo / Selected Essays / Varies / Nonfiction-Essays / 11
Faulkner, William / As I Lay Dying / 870L / Novel / 11
Faulkner, William / The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry / Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott / The Great Gatsby / *1070L / Novel / 11
Flaubert, Gustave / Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox / The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / Faust
Golding, William / Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas / Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel / The Scarlet Letter / *1340L / Novel / 11
Heller, Joseph / Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernesy / A Farewell to Arms
Homer / The Iliad
Homer / The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor / The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale / Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous / Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik / A Doll’s House / 10
James, Henry / The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry / The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz / The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong / The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper / To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair / Babbitt
London, Jack / The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas / The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia / One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman / Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman / Moby Dick / 1230L / Novel / 11
Miller, Arthur / The Crucible / 1320L / Drama / 11
Morrison, Toni / Beloved / 870L / Novel / 11
O’Conner, Flannery / A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene / Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George / Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris / Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia / The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan / Selected Tales / Short Stories
Proust, Marcel / Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas / The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria / All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond / Cyrano de Bergerac / Drama / 10
Salinger, J. D. / The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William / Hamlet
Shakespeare, William / Macbeth
Shakespeare, William / A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William / Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard / Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary / Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon / Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander / One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles / Antigone
Sophocles / Oedipus res
Steinbeck, John / The Grapes of Wrath / 680L / Novel / 11
Stevenson, Robert Louis / Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher / Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan / Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William / Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David / Walden / *1340L-1420L / Nonfiction-Essay / 11
Tolstoy, Leo / War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan / Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / *990L / Novel / 11
Voltaire / Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. / Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice / The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith / The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora / Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt / Leaves of Grass / Poetry Collection / 11
Wilde, Oscar / The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennesse / The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia / To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard / Native Son