Sep 23 2008
Pacing Guides
LA 3 / 11th grade Language Arts
Required Core Works: The Crucible
Extended List (choose one or more): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, A Streetcar Named Desire, Joy Luck Club
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Quarter 1 |
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Unit 1: ORIGINS AND ENCOUNTERS (2000 B.C.-A.D. 1620) Part 1: In Harmony With Nature Iroquois- The World on a Turtle’s Back Okanogan- Coyote Stories Part 2: First Encounters Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca- from La Relacion Olaudah Equiano- from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Unit 2: FROM COLONY TO COUNTRY (1620-1800) Part 1: Between Heaven and Hell Anne Bradstreet- Upon the Burning of my House To my Dear and Loving Husband Jonathan Edwards- from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Part 2: The Right to Be Free (Choose two or more from the following selections): Patrick Henry- Speech in the Virginia Convention Thomas Jefferson- The Declaration of Independence Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur- What is an American Benjamin Franklin- from Poor Richard’s Almanack
Required Major Work: The Crucible by Arthur Miller |
Weeks 1-3
Weeks 4-8 |
Writing Strategies 1.7
Reading Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.6
Writing Applications 2.4
Literary Response & Analysis 3.2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Written Conventions 1.1, 1.2
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Unit 3: THE SPIRIT OF INDIVIDUALISM (1800-1855) Part 1: Celebration of Self Washington Irving- The Devil and Tom Walker Ralph Waldo Emerson- from Self Reliance Henry David Thoreau- from Civil Disobedience Walt Whitman- Selected Poems Part 2: The Dark Side of Individualism Edgar Allan Poe- The Masque of the Red Death The Raven The Black Cat Nathaniel Hawthorne- Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Unit 4: CONFLICT AND EXPANSION (1850-1900) Part 1: A House Divided (Choose two or more from the following selections): Frederick Douglass- from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Ambrose Bierce- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Stephan Crane- A Mystery of Heroism Abraham Lincoln- The Gettysburg Address Part 2: Tricksters and Trailblazers Mark Twain- any selection
Suggested Major Work: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Quarter 2 continued Unit 5: THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA (1855-1925) Part 1: Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives Emily Dickinson- Selected Poems Choose two or more of the following: Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Yellow Wallpaper Kate Chopin- The Story of an Hour Hisaye Yamamoto- Seventeen Syllables Rita Dove- Adolescence-III Tillie Olsen- I Stand Here Ironing Julia Alvarez- Ironing Their Clothes
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Weeks 9-11
Weeks 12-16
Weeks 17-18 |
Writing Strategies 1.4, 1.9
Writing Conventions 1.1, 1.2
Reading Vocabulary 1.2, 1.3
Reading Comprehension 2.2, 2.4, 2.5
Lit. Response 3.5, 3.8
Writing Applications 2.1, 2.3, 2.5
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Quarter 3 |
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Unit 5: THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA (1855-1925) Part 2: Illusion or Reality? The American Dream Selected Poets: Carl Sandburg E.A. Robinson Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Suggested Major Work: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unit 6: THE MODERN AGE (1900-1940) Part 1: The Harlem Renaissance: A New Cultural Identity Langston Hughes- Selected Poems Zora Neale Hurston- How It Feels to Be Colored Me Part 2: Alienation of the Individual Robert Frost- Selected Poems Ernest Hemingway- The End of Something T.S. Elliot- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Suggested Major Work: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams |
Weeks 1-5
Weeks 6-12 |
Reading Vocabulary 1.2
Reading Comprehension 2.3
Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.9
Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5
Writing Applications 2.2, 2.3
Writing Conventions 1.1, 1.2
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Quarter 4 |
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Unit 7: WAR ABROAD AND CONFLICT AT HOME (1940-Prsent) Part 1: Remembering the Wars (Choose two or more from the following selections): Bernard Malmud- Armistice John Steinbeck- Why Soldiers Won’t Talk Joan Didion- Letter From Paradise Tim O’Brien- Ambush Denise Levertov- At the Justice Department Part 2: Integration and Disintegration Martin Luther King, Jr.- from Letter from Birmingham Jail John Updike- Separating Amy Tan- Mother Tongue Sandra Cisneros- Straw Into Gold
Suggested Major Works (choose 1): The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Color Purple by Alice Walker Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
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Weeks 13-18
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Reading Comprehension 2.4, 2.5
Literary Response & Analysis 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7
Writing Strategies 1.6
Writing Applications 2.6
Writing Conventions 1.1, 1.2
Listening and Speaking 1.1-2.5 (not a tested standard) |
LA 3 (sheltered) / 11th grade Language Arts
Required Core Works: The Crucible
Extended List (choose one or more): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, A Streetcar Named Desire, Joy Luck Club
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Quarter 1 |
Time Frame |
Standards |
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Unit 1: ORIGINS AND ENCOUNTERS (2000 B.C.-A.D. 1620) Part 1: In Harmony With Nature Iroquois- The World on a Turtle’s Back Okanogan- Coyote Stories
Unit 2: FROM COLONY TO COUNTRY (1620-1800) Part 1: Between Heaven and Hell Anne Bradstreet- Upon the Burning of my House To my Dear and Loving Husband Jonathan Edwards- from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Required Major Work: The Crucible by Arthur Miller |
Weeks 1-3
Weeks 4-8 |
Writing Strategies 1.7
Reading Standards 1.1, 1.2, 2.6
Writing Applications 2.4
Literary Response & Analysis 3.2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Written Conventions 1.1, 1.2
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Quarter 2 |
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Suggested Major Work: A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit 3: THE SPIRIT OF INDIVIDUALISM (1800-1855) Part 1: Celebration of Self Washington Irving- The Devil and Tom Walker Ralph Waldo Emerson- from Self Reliance Henry David Thoreau- from Civil Disobedience Walt Whitman- Selected Poems Part 2: The Dark Side of Individualism Edgar Allan Poe- The Masque of the Red Death The Raven The Black Cat Nathaniel Hawthorne- Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Unit 4: CONFLICT AND EXPANSION (1850-1900) Part 2: Tricksters and Trailblazers Mark Twain- any selection
Kate Chopin- The Story of an Hour
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Weeks 9-11
Weeks 12-16
Weeks 17-18 |
Writing Strategies 1.4, 1.9
Writing Conventions 1.1, 1.2
Reading Vocabulary 1.2, 1.3
Reading Comprehension 2.2, 2.4, 2.5
Lit. Response 3.5, 3.8
Writing Applications 2.1, 2.3, 2.5
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Quarter 3 |
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Unit 5: THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA (1855-1925) Part 2: Illusion or Reality? The American Dream Selected Poets: Carl Sandburg E.A. Robinson Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Suggested Major Work: The Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Unit 6: THE MODERN AGE (1900-1940) Part 1: The Harlem Renaissance: A New Cultural Identity Langston Hughes- Selected Poems Zora Neale Hurston- How It Feels to Be Colored Me Part 2: Alienation of the Individual Robert Frost- Selected Poems Ernest Hemingway- The End of Something T.S. Elliot- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Weeks 1-5
Weeks 6-12 |
Reading Vocabulary 1.2
Reading Comprehension 2.3
Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.9
Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5
Writing Applications 2.2, 2.3
Writing Conventions 1.1, 1.2
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Quarter 4 |
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Unit 7: WAR ABROAD AND CONFLICT AT HOME (1940-Prsent) Part 2: Integration and Disintegration Martin Luther King, Jr.- from Letter from Birmingham Jail John Updike- Separating Amy Tan- Mother Tongue Sandra Cisneros- Straw Into Gold
Suggested Major Works (choose 1): The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Weeks 13-18
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Reading Comprehension 2.4, 2.5
Literary Response & Analysis 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7
Writing Strategies 1.6
Writing Applications 2.6
Writing Conventions 1.1, 1.2
Listening and Speaking 1.1-2.5 (not a tested standard) |
In addition: Test taking rules:
Test Taking in Schiff’ Class
Rules:
1. No verbal or nonverbal communication!
2. No turning around.
3. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
4. Do not have anything on your desk. Books and water bottles included.
5. Do not talk to anyone unless it is Miss. Schiff until she releases you to talk. No one may do so until the last test is in.
6. You may not have ANYTHING around your desk. It does not matter what it is.
7. Backpacks and personal items must be at the front of the class throughout the duration of the test.
Anyone who breaks these rules will have their grade result in a zero as we have discussed in class.
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