Manteo High School: English Department: Common Goal

Manteo High School: English Department: Common Goal

B. Vogt

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Grade Level:
Tests Used:
Skills:
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
NCSCS: / 3: Wisdom and Insight
Chinese and Japanese Literature
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1890
From the Scholar’s Desk
Royall Tyler
Ø  Talks About the Time Period
Ø  Writing Workshop Professional Model: On Capturing The Reader’s Interest
English II
Prentice Hall Literature:
World Masterpieces
Penguin Edition
·  Writing About Literature: Analyze Literary Trends
·  Writing Workshop: Persuasion: Persuasive Essay
·  Vocabulary Workshop: Making Connections
·  Assessment Workshop: Critical Reading: Cause-and-Effect Relationships
·  Communications Workshop: Delivering Persuasive Arguments
·  Suggestions for Further Reading
Vocabulary/literary
Elements (define, identify) / aphorisms
poetry
meter
stanza
simile
metaphor
personification
oxymoron
images
rhyme
alliteration
consonance
assonance
onomatopoeia
couplets
tercets
quatrain
sestets
monometer
dimeter
trimester
tetrameter
pentameter
hexameter
free verse
iamb
trochee
dactyl
anapest
spondee
refrain
songs/ballads
tone
diction
incremental variation
shih poem
Japanese: Tanka and Haiku
Caesura
kigo
denotation
connotation
journal
anecdote
paradox
Zen parable
Origami
Content (characters, basic plot, author / From The book of Songs; I Beg of You, Chung Tzu; Thick Grow the Rush Leaves; Form, Shadow, and Spirit; I Built My House Near Where Others Dwell; The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter; Addresses Humorously to Tu Fu; Jade Flower Palace; Sent to Li Po as a Gift; When I Went to Visit; Was It That I Went to Sleep; One Cannot Ask Loneliness; Haiku; Haiku; Haiku; from The Pillow Book; In Spring It is the Dawn; The Cat Who Lived in the Palace; Things that Arouse a Fond; Memory of the Past; I Remember a Clear; Morning; Women Writers in Japan; Zen Parables; A Parable; Publishing the Sutras; The Taste of Banzo’s Sword; The Orgins of Orgami
Themes/Big Ideas / Ø  Wisdom and Insight
Ø  China and the West
Ø  The Yamato Clan and Chinese Influence
Ø  The Heian Age
Ø  Feudal Japan
Ø  Japan Shuts Out the World
Ø  Perry Open the Door
Ø  Japanese Religious Traditions
Ø  Chinese Philosophy
Ø  Bertoit Brecht and Chinese Drama
Ø  Japanese Prose
Ø  Japanese Drama
Ø 
Connections (to world,
Other texts, self, inference) / Benjamin Franklin’s from Poor Richard’s Almanack
Writing / ü  Analyze Literary Trends
ü  Persuasive essay; Daily edits
Homework / Ø  Skills Workshops
Ø  Outside Novel Reading
WL.1.03.6 Make inferences and draw conclusion based on personal reflection.
IR.2.01.9 Analyze and evaluate author’s craft and style in research texts.
IR 2.01.10 Analyze the connections between ideas, concepts, characters and experiences in research.
IR.2.03.2 Prioritize and organize information to construct an explanation to answer a question.
FA. 3.01.2 Compile response and research data to organize argument about controversial issues.

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