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ENGLISH 1-2: SCOPE AND SEQUENCE 2016-2017

TERM 1/QUARTER 1
Poetry 8 weeksUnit 1: Literary Elements, Short Story, &

READING

Cornerstone Readings with Suggested Pairings:


The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
Being Successful in High School (Bernie Goss)*
Rights to the Streets of Memphis (Richard Wright) 930L (mid)
Mother to Son (Langston Hughes)
Choices (Nikki Giovanni)*
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark (Emily Dickinson)

WRITING

Cornerstone Writings:
Informative/Explanatory
paragraph/essay
(e.g. Crossroads essay, Literary
Analysis, Goals paragraph/essay)
Personal response journal
Cornell notes w/ summary

The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell) 700L (low)


Cecil the Lion: Do Paid Hunting Permits Help Save Wildlife (Laura
Geggel/NEWSELA)*
Two Kinds (Amy Tan)* 880L
Rice and Rose bowl Blues (Diane Mei Lin Mark)*

Suggested Readings:
The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) 830L (low)
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) 960L
Ozymandias (Percy Bysse Shelley)

LANGUAGE

Emphasis:

parts of speech review


capitalization
sentence structure
correct run-ons/fragments
punctuate correctly
o commas
o ending punctuation

strong verbs, sensory details,


vivid imagery
use adjectives and adverbs
correctly
connotation and denotations

Suggested Writings:
Original poetry in a variety of forms
Personal narrative

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TERM 2/QUARTER 2
Unit 2: The Epic Heroism8 weeks

READING
Cornerstone Readings:
The Odyssey (Homer) 1050 L (Mid)
Penelope (Dorothy Parker) 660 L (Low)
Back from War, but Not Really Home (Caroline Alexander/New York
Times)* 1330L (High)

Suggested Readings:

Informative/Explanatory essay
(e.g. My Ithaca Essay)
Cornell notes w/ summary

Suggested Writings:

Theseus and the Minotaur


Book review
Overview of the Trojan War
Research report
Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)
Short essay responses with evidence
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Greek Myths (Bernard Evslin) 870 L (Mid)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
Oh, the Places Youll Go (Dr. Seuss) AD600 L (Low)
Database and research articles
Research articles for Socratic Seminar
Excerpts of Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (William
Manchester)

READING
ER 3ART3/QUMTER
8 weeksNonfiction and NovelUnit 3: Literary

WRITING
Cornerstone writings:

Cornerstone Readings:
I Have a Dream (Martin Luther King Jr) 1135 L (High)
Warriors Dont Cry (Melba Pattillo Beals) 1000L (mid)

Suggested Readings, paired with Warriors Dont Cry:


Melba Pattilo Beals (Scholastic)
Interview with Melba Pattilo Beals (Scholastic)
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School
Key Excerpts from Brown Vs The Board of Education (Chief Justice
Warren)
Peaceful Protest is much more effective than violence for toppling
dictators (Max Fisher)
The Struggle for Equality (ReadWorks) 830L
Suicide Rates on Rise (Kate Cronan)
Presidential Profile: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mohandas K Gandhi (ReadWorks)
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jr.) 1330L (high)

Additional Literary Nonfiction selections:


The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln) 1340L (high)
Second Inaugural Address (Abraham Lincoln)
Learning to Read and Write (Frederick Douglass)
Politics and the English Language (George Orwell)

WRITING
Cornerstone Writings:
Argumentative paragraph
Personal response journal
Cornell notes w/ summary

Suggested Writings:
Short essay responses with evidence
Informative/Explanatory
paragraph/essay
AZMerit-style practice

LANGUAGE
Emphasis:

review: conjunctions, semicolons


correct run-ons/fragments
punctuate correctly
sentence structure
appropriate and varied
transitions
use formal, informal,
standard, technical language
effectively
apply knowledge of affixes
and roots.
context clue
infer word meanings: synonyms,
antonyms, metaphors, etc.

LANGUAGE
Emphasis:

review: conjunctions, semicolons, verbs, adjectives,


adverbs, commas
parallel structure
correct run-ons/fragments
punctuate correctly
sentence structure
appropriate and varied
transitions
use formal, informal,
standard, technical language
effectively
apply knowledge of affixes
and roots.
context clue
infer word meanings: synonyms,
antonyms, metaphors, etc.
Precise language and domain
specific words
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READING
TERM 4/QUARTER 4
Unit 4: DramaFate6 weeks

Cornerstone Readings:
Shakespeares world (from the text)
A Shakespearean drama (e.g. Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew,
etc.)

Suggested Readings:
Oedipus (Sophocles)
Excerpts from The Poetics (Aristotle)
The Seven Ages of Man (William Shakespeare)
Monkeys Paw(W. W. Jacobs)
Elizabethan Women
A selection from Nine Short Plays (variety of authors)

WRITING
Cornerstone Writings:
Argumentative essay
Cornell notes w/ summary

Suggested Writings:
One Act Play

LANGUAGE
Emphasis:

review: conjunctions, semicolons, verbs, adjectives,


adverbs, commas
parallel structure
correct run-ons/fragments
punctuate correctly
sentence structure
appropriate and varied
transitions
use formal, informal,
standard, technical language
effectively
apply knowledge of affixes

*Not original cornerstone readings; added to increase rigor and diversity

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