English 3 Academicv. 2015 - 2016

Academic English 3

The major thrust of the 11th grade Academic English course is to develop an understanding of American literature, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, through a chronological approach emphasizing the values, techniques, and historical backgrounds for each literary period. Supplemental readings include The Things They Carried, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby. Students will examine their native literature in oral and written expression with a balance of expository analyses and creative projects, such as PowerPoint presentations, peer-teaching opportunities, newspapers, journals, poetry, and informative, narrative and persuasive prose. Students will also take bi-weekly vocabulary quizzes as preparation for the SAT. The required research project requires students to read an approved non-fiction novel, analyze the text, research a social issue relevant to the text, and write a 7-10 page informative paper effectively incorporating both primary and secondary sources.

Course Information:

Frequency & Duration: Daily for 42 minutes

Text: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004. Print.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Robert D. Shepherd.The Scarlet Letter. St. Paul, MN: EMC/Paradigm Pub., 1998. Print.

Lawrence, Jerome. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. New York: Bantam, 1981. Print.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999. Print.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Broadway, 1998. Print.

Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. Common Core ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2012. Print.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. Print.

The Things They Carried (summer reading)Duration: August/September (1 Week)

Writing/ Speaking and Listening / Fiction/Non-Fiction
Content /

Informative and Explanatory Essays
Complex ideas, concepts and information.
Sharp, distinct focus
Topic, Task, and Audience
Information, findings and supporting evidence
Clear and distinct perspective
Organization, development, substance and style
Purpose, audience, and task
Speak clearly and logically analyzing audience purpose and task

Central Ideas and themes
Objective Summary
Interaction of Ideas or Themes
Plot development
Story elements
Textual evidence
Author’s assumptions and beliefs
Point of View, purpose, and content and style in literary fiction

Essential Question: / To what extent does the writing process contribute to the quality of writing?
How do we develop into effective writers?
What role does writing play in our lives? / What makes American Literature American?
What is the relationship between literature and place?
How does literature shape or reflect society?
Skill: /

Compose informative/ explanatory essays.

Examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately.
Understand topic, task, and audience
Compose writing assignments containing sharp, distinct focus appropriate for topic, task, and audience.
Present information, findings, and supporting evidence
Convey a clear and distinct perspective
Consider purpose, audience and task to organize, develop and substantiate the presentation.

Determine two or more ideas in fiction
Provide an objective summary of fictional text
Analyze development of central idea/ themes with detail in fiction
Explain central interaction ideas/ themes with detail in fiction.
Identify elements of story
explain relationship between story elements and author purpose
Identify and analyze author assumptions and beliefs.
Analyze relationship between fiction and author beliefs.
Characterize impact of author choices in how to develop and relate a story
Independently and proficiently read literary fiction on grade level.
Comprehend and interpret fictional text on grade level

Assessment: /

Based on grade-level appropriate text, students are able to compose informative/ explanatory essays conveying accurately and clearly complex ideas, concepts, and information.
Identify appropriate topic, task, and audience for various writing assignments.
Create thesis statements and topic sentences to craft sharp, distinct focus.
Write compositions with sharp, distinct focus and awareness of topic, task, and audience.
Students will research, write, and deliver oral presentations conveying a clear and distinct perspective.
Students will consider purpose, audience, and task to develop and substantiate the presentations.
Students will vary style, development, substance, and the organization to meet the needs of the audience as part of an oral presentation.

Write an objective summary of fiction.
Identify central idea and describe and analyze development over text with specific details in fiction.
Explain the emergence of central idea in fiction with specific detail.
Recognize elements of a story or drama and its relationship to author’s intent.
Describe impact resulting from author’s decisions to develop and relate story
Identify explicit ideas with textual evidence
Identify implicit ideas based on author’s beliefs with textual evidence
Summarize literary fiction on grade level
Demonstrate proficiency in comprehending and interpreting literary fictional text on grade level

Resources: / The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried- essay assignment
Short research assignment on Vietnam War (presentation)
Letters Home from Vietnam – video documentary
Personal Essay Rubric “The Things I Carry” / The Things They Carried
Objective Exam
Standards: / CC.1.4.11-12A: Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately.
CC.1.4.11-12B: Write with a sharp, distinct focus identifying topic, task, and audience.
CC.1.5.11-12D: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective; organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
CC.1.5.9-10D: 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.1.3.11-12A: Determine and analyze the relationship between two or more themes or central ideas of a text including the development and interaction of the themes: provide and objective summary of the text.
CC.1.3.11-12C: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
CC.1.3.11-12K: Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently
CC.1.3.11-12.B: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on and related to an author’s implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs.
CC.1.3.11-12. D: Evaluate how an author’s point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text

Comments:

Running concurrently through all units of study is vocabulary acquisition in non-fiction and fiction

Standards:

CC.1.3.11-12.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.1.3.11-12.J: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career-readiness level: demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering aword or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

“Meeting of Cultures”Duration: September (2 weeks)

Writing/ Speaking and Listening / Fiction/Non-Fiction
Content /

Oral presentation: variety of tasks
Digital media to enhance understanding

Central idea/ theme
Multiple Central Ideas
Objective Summary
Interaction of Ideas or Themes
plot development
story elements
Literary fiction
Foundational works of literature from a variety of genres

Adapt speech to task
Orally Paraphrase text
Utilize Power Point, Prezi, or another technology to enhance presentation

Provide an objective summary of fictional text
Analyze development of central idea/ themes with detail in fiction
Explain central interaction ideas/ themes with detail in fiction.
Identify elements of story
explain relationship between story elements and author purpose
Identify and analyze author assumptions and beliefs.
Analyze relationship between fiction and author beliefs.
Characterize impact of author choices in how to develop and relate a story
Independently and proficiently read literary fiction on grade level.
Comprehend and interpret fictional text on grade level

Assessment: /

Deliver effective presentation paraphrasing original author’s work
Enhance presentation through the use of visual technologies
Demonstrate effective speaking skills including rate, voice projection, eye-contact, and articulation

Write an objective summary of fiction.
Identify central idea and describe and analyze development over text with specific details in fiction.
Explain the emergence of central idea in fiction with specific detail.
Recognize elements of a story or drama and its relationship to author’s intent.
Describe impact resulting from author’s decisions to develop and relate story
Identify explicit ideas with textual evidence
Identify implicit ideas based on author’s beliefs with textual evidence
Summarize literary fiction on grade level
Demonstrate proficiency in comprehending and interpreting literary fictional text on grade level

Resources: / The American Experience
BYOD: Smart Phone/ Internet Research on the Navajo, Onondaga, and Modoc
Origin Myth assignment rubric / Objective quiz
Literature: The American Experience
“The Earth on the Turtle’s Back”
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright”
“Navajo Origin Legend”
Standards: / CC.1.5.9-10. E Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks
CC.1.5.9-10.F Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to add interest and enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence. / CC.1.3.11-12A: Determine and analyze the relationship between two or more themes or central ideas of a text including the development and interaction of the themes: provide and objective summary of the text.
CC.1.3.11-12C: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
CC.1.3.11-12K: Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently
CC.1.3.11-12.B: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on and related to an author’s implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs.
CC.1.3.11-12. D: Evaluate how an author’s point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text

Comments:

Running concurrently through all units of study is vocabulary acquisition in non-fiction and fiction

Standards:

CC.1.3.11-12.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.1.3.11-12.J: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career-readiness level: demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

“The Puritan Influence” Duration: September/ October (5 weeks)

Writing/ Speaking and Listening / Fiction/Non-Fiction
Content /

Informative and explanatory essays
Complex ideas, concepts and information
Sharp distinct focus
Topic, task, and audience
Significant and relevant facts
Definitions, concrete details, and quotations
Information appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic
Structured and sequential ideas, concepts, and information
Appropriate and varied transitions
Concluding statement
Proper formatting
Precise language and domain specific vocabulary
Formal style and objective tone
English grammar and usage

Central idea/ Theme
Multiple central ideas
Objective summary
Stated or Implied main idea
Textual evidence
Author’s assumptions and beliefs
Seminal texts focusing on purpose and argument
Foundational texts of historical and literary significance
Rhetorical Appeals- Ethos, Pathos, logos
Unknown words and multiple meaning words
Point of view in Non-fiction
Purpose, content, and style
Literary non-fiction- informational text

Compose informative/ explanatory essays
Examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately.
Understand topic, task, and audience
Comprehend strategies for writing with sharp, distinct focus appropriate for topic, task, and audience
Identify significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic
Evaluate effectiveness of significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic
Implement appropriate significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic into writing assignments.
Identify, evaluate, and implement graphics and multimedia useful to aiding comprehension.
Identify appropriate ideas, concepts and information for proper structure and sequence, varied transitions, and concluding statement elements
Sequence ideas, concepts, and information appropriately in relation to one another
Use varied transitions to logically shift writing from one idea, concept, or piece of information to another
Create a concluding statement related to appropriate structure and sequence of ideas, concepts, and information.
Identify precise language and domain specific vocabulary including metaphor, simile, and analogy
Understand elements of formal style and objective tone
Examine precise language and domain specific vocabulary including metaphor, simile, and analogy, and how it impacts formal style and objective tone
Apply precise language to create a formal style and objective tone
Implement proper usage of English grammar, including capitalization, punctuation, and spelling into personal writing abilities.

Determine two or more ideas in non-fiction
Provide an objective summary of non-fiction text
Explain central ideas/ themes and development with detail
Cite strong and thorough textual support for determining author inferences and conclusion.
Identify and analyze author assumptions and beliefs
Analyze relationship between non-fiction and author beliefs
Determine author point of view and purpose
Analyze how point of view and purpose shape content and style in non-fiction
Explain the relationship between content and author point of view and purpose.
Read seminal non-fiction texts to determine author reasoning and premise
Analyze seminal non-fiction texts in terms of author purpose and argument
Read foundational non-fiction texts to determine theme, purpose and rhetorical features
Analyze and draw conclusions regarding foundational non-fiction texts’ use of theme, purpose, and rhetorical features
Understand strategies and tools for determining or clarifying meaning of unknown or multiple meaning words and phrases
Apply strategies and tools for determining or clarifying meaning of unknown or multiple-meaning words and phrases
Recognize words in different contexts
Independently and proficiently read literary non-fiction and informational text on grade level.
Comprehend and interpret literary non-fiction and informational text on grade level.

Assessment: /

Based on grade-level appropriate text, students are able to compose informative/ explanatory essays conveying accurately and clearly complex ideas, concepts, and information
Identify appropriate topic, task, and audience for various writing assignments
Create thesis statements and topic sentences to craft sharp, distinct focus
Write compositions with sharp, distinct focus and awareness of topic, task, and audiences
Examine significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic
Analyze significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic
Write essays using significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of topic
Examine, analyze, and incorporate graphics and multimedia useful to aiding comprehension
Comprehend and analyze appropriate ideas, concepts, and information for furthering a thesis as well as varied transitions and concluding statement elements.
Outline appropriate ideas, concepts, and information in a logically sequential order
Use appropriate transitions to aid development and structure of appropriate ideas, concepts, and information
Write a logical concluding statement
Write using precise language and domain specific vocabulary to establish formal style and objective tone
Write with proper usage of English grammar.

Write an objective summary of non-fiction
Identify central idea and describe and analyze development over text with specific details
Explain the emergence of central idea with specific detail
Identify explicit ideas with textual evidence
Identify implicit ideas based on author’s beliefs with textual evidence
Analyze author assumptions and beliefs
Identify how content and point of view influence author purpose in non-fiction
Explain how content and point of view influence author purpose in non-fiction
Evaluate how content and point of view influence author purpose in non-fiction
Comprehend seminal non-fiction texts on grade-level.
Explain seminal texts in terms of reasoning, premises, purposes, and arguments
Draw conclusions of seminal text effectiveness and impact based on understanding and analysis
Summarize theme, purpose and rhetorical features of foundational texts
Explain foundational non-fiction texts in light of theme, purpose, and rhetorical features
State effectiveness of foundational texts and connect to previous and future units of study, including how foundational texts influence historical events, political and social events, and future writings
Practice strategies and tools for determining or clarifying meaning of unknown words or phrases
Demonstrate understanding of unknown words or phrases using strategies and tools
Given unknown words or multiple-meaning phrases, using tools for determining or clarifying meaning of unknown words or phrases
Summarize literary non-fiction and informational text on grade level
Demonstrate proficiency in comprehending and interpreting literary non-fiction and informational text on grade level

Resources: / Pocket style manual
Informative writing assignment
Journal assignments
The Scarlet Letter PBS film
The Scarlet Letter Critical Analysis Assignment and Rubric
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” audio file / Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience
Of Plymouth Plantation and William Bradford’s biography
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and Jonathan Edward’s biography
“Plea of the Infants” and Michael Wigglesworth’s biography
“Huswifery” and Edward Taylor’s biography
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” and Anne Bradstreet’s biography
Study and Discussion Questions and guides
The Scarlet Letter
Standards: / .CC.1.2.11-12A: Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately
CC.1.4.11-12B: Write with a sharp, distinct focus identifying topic, task, and audience
CC.1.4.11-12C: Develop and analyze the topic thoroughly by selecting the most significant and relevant facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic
CC.1.4.11-12D: Organize complex ideas, concepts and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a whole; use appropriate and varied transitions and syntax to link the major sections of the text; provide a concluding statement or section that supports the information presented; include formatting when useful to aiding comprehension
CC.1.4.11-12E: Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition

Use precise language, domain specific vocabulary and techniques such as metaphor, simile, and analogy to manage the complexity of the topic.
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective ton while attending to the norms of the discipline in which they are writing.

CC.1.4.11-12F: Demonstrate grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling / CC.1.2.11-12A: Determine and analyze the relationship between two or more central ideas of a text, including the development and interaction of the central ideas; provide and objective summary of the text
CC.1.2.11-12B: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on and related to an author’s implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs
CC.1.2.11-12.D: Evaluate how an author’s point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
CC.1.2.11-12H: Analyze seminal texts based upon reasoning, premises, purposes and arguments.
CC.1.2.11-12.I: Analyze foundational U.S. and world documents of historical, political, and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
CC.1.2.11-12.K: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.1.2.11-12.L: Read and comprehend literary nonfiction and informational text on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.

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