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Teachers MAY choose from the Teachers MUST Teachers MUST Teachers MUST complete
Throughout the following list of titles to supplement incorporate the incorporate the following units in order
90 days allotted each section. *Utilize literary study of the writing as he/she as this is how students will
to English I, benchmarks and online following literary feels be *Benchmarked by
teachers may assessments in the allotted 1 day terms in each unit appropriate. instructor:
choose to of benchmark testing per unit.
complete units
based on genre in
ANY ORDER that
they deem
appropriate.
Fiction: Suggested Readings Literary Terms Writing
Approximately Options
23 days (1 Day
Benchmark)
Short Short Stories: Setting Scarlet Ibis Throughout all units
Stories/Novels “A Sound of Thunder” Irony (Verbal, Seminar address the following
Objectives: “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” situational, items:
1.03 “Harrison Bergeron” dramatic) Short Story Vocabulary
“Poison” Conflict Power Point Context Clues
5.01 “Rules of the Game” (external, Project Inference
“Thank You, Ma’am” internal) Root Words
5.02 “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” Mood Reader Response Synonym
“The Birds” Characterization Journal Antonym
5.03 “The Cask of Amontillado” (direct and Main Idea/Supporting
“The Gift of the Magi” indirect) Short Story Details
“The Invalid’s Story” Character Types Writing
“The Lady, Or The Tiger” (round, flat, static, Assignment Unit #1:
“The Lottery” dynamic)
“The Interlopers” Protagonist, Interlopers Parts of Speech,
“The Most Dangerous Game” Antagonist Newspaper Sentences, Fragments,
“The Necklace” Dialogue Article Run-ons, Subject/Verb
“The Open Window” Dialect Agreement,
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Diction Thank You M’am Pronoun/Antecedent
“The Sniper” Colloquialism Card Agreement, and Sentence
Fiction Cont. ”The Secret Ibis” Figurative Combining, Conciseness ,
Language Short Story Term Coherence and Clarity
Symbol Analysis
Novels: Plot (Exposition, Days: 44
Great Expectations, Dickens narrative hook,
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee rising action,
Animal Farm, George Orwell climax, falling Unit # 2
Separate Peace, Knowles action, resolution)
Lord of the Flies, Golding Point of View Capitalization, Punctuation,
Old Man and the Sea, The , Ernest (1st, 2nd, and and Sentence Variety
Hemingway 3rd Omniscient,
Call of the Wild, The, Jack London 3rd Limited) Days: 22
Fallen Angles, Walter Dean Myers Flashback
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Foreshadowing Unit # 3
Outsiders, The, S. E. Hinton Imagery
Anthem, Ayn Rand Suspense Editing and EOC Review
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Theme
Angelou Tone Days: 22
Mythology, Edith Hamilton Allusion
Day No Pigs Would Die, A, Robert Peck Style 6.01
West Side Story, Arthur Laurents Epiphany
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Author’s 6.02
Lottery Rose, Irene Hunt Purpose
Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Micelson Paradox
The Uglies, Scott Westerfeld Adage
Stereotype
October 2008/RCS Secondary Education
English I Pacing Guide
Inference
Archetype
Satire
Motif
Idiom
Cliché
Author’s Craft
Fairy Tale
Proverb
Fable
Tall Tale
Legend
Reflective Texts:
“Field Trip”
Excerpt from “Angela’s Ashes”
Nonfiction Cont. “Go Deep to the Sewer”
Released NCDPI Selections
Argumentative Texts:
“I Have a Dream”
“Ain’t a Woman”
“First Inaugural Address”
“The Talk”
“Carry Your Own Skis”
“Gettysburg Address”
“Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
Newspaper Editorials
Poetry: 11 Days Suggested Poetry Poetry Terms: Poetry Writing
(1 Day Bold Terms used
Benchmark in EOC
testing)
Objectives: “The Bells” Ballad poetry Journal
5.01, 5.03 Responses
October 2008/RCS Secondary Education
English I Pacing Guide
Haiku Alliteration
Assonance
“Ancient Gesture”
Onomatopoeia
“What is Poetry?”-Elliot
“What is a Poet?”-Cummings Rhyme
“Tom Dooley”
October 2008/RCS Secondary Education
English I Pacing Guide
Internal Rhyme
End Rhyme
Slant Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Parallelism
Repetition
Imagery
Stanza
Speaker/Voice
Mood
Theme
Couplet
Symbol
Connotation
Denotation
Oxymoron
Paraphrase
11 days (1 Day
Bench Mark)
5.01, 5.03 The Odyssey Allusion Odyssey Global
Simile Introductions
Novels: Metaphor (journal
Hamilton’s Mythology Personification response)
Archetype
Epic Hero Scrapbook
Epic Simile Journal
Extended
Metaphor Odyssey Puppet
Jargon and Script
Epithet Writing
Tragic Flaw
Accolades Odysseus’ New
Figurative Heroic Crew
Language
Dramatic Irony Research Report
Parallelism on Greek Gods
Epic Cont. Repetition
Imagery
Flashback
Symbolism
Drama: Suggested Reading Drama Literary Writing
Approximately Terms
23 Days (1 Day
Benchmark)
Objectives: Romeo and Juliet Dramatic R& J Global
5.01, 5.02, 5.03 Monologue Introductions
Additional Readings: Soliloquy (Journal)
A Raisin in the Sun Dramatic Irony
The Miracle Worker Foreshadowing R&J Essay
Raisin In The Sun, A, Lorraine Hansberry Pun Options
Metaphor
October 2008/RCS Secondary Education
English I Pacing Guide
Character Study
Critical Analysis
Essay
Midterm (1 Day) Released Items and Benchmarks
and EOC Review
10 Days
Sample Questions for Literary/Textual Analysis Items