2018-2019 Curriculum Map/Pacing Guide English IV
Ongoing Assignments and Skills:
Development/Enhancement of reading skills
Learning and usage of Literary Terms and Devices
Writing Notebook/Dialectical Journal
Annotation of Texts
ACT-Style Multiple Choice Questions
Grammar and Sentence Composition
Larger student-centered projects and writings
Utilization of Laying the Foundation materials
Unit One College Essay Writing.
Unit Schedule:
Write College entrance essays
Practice Resumes
College Applications
W.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
Unit Two Heroes
Unit Schedule
Read Beowulf
Read Non-fiction pieces
Write Character Analysis
Standards:
RL.1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matter uncertain.
Rl. 3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (where a story is et, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed.)
W.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
VOCABULARY:
- Resolute reprisal exorcise vehemently
- scabbard porter infallible hilt
- mica furled Barrow epic
- Lavish hale epic similes lavish
- hale Invocation assail foiled
- Extolled thanes stock epithets hall
- Austere Flashbacks Reparation Decreed
- Scourge Solace Contortion Fawning
- Prow Squall Groveling Mail Shirt
- Shamash Gallant Shrouds Phosphorescent
- Vexed Foil
Unit Three: Arthurian Legend
Unit Schedule
Read “Arthur Becomes King of Britain”
Watch clips from “the Sword and the Stone”
Read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Read “Le Morte De Arthur”
Write a Legend
Standards
RL.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama
RL.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text
W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences, effective technique, well-chose, details, and well-structured event sequences.
W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience
Vocabulary:
- Romance Resolution Foreshadowing Plot
- Irony Conflict Inference Character
- Symbol Dialect Theme Point of View
- Climax Resolution/Denouement Exposition
- Archetype Flashback Legend
Unit Four: Canterbury Tales
Unit Schedule:
Read The Canterbury Tales
Read Non-fiction pieces
Watch A Nights Tale
Write your ow Tale
Standards
RL.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account. Provide an objective summary of the text
W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
Vocabulary:
- Agility Eminent Accrue Arbitrate
- Benign Guile Obstinate
- Frugal Duress
Unit 5: Macbeth
Unit Schedule:
Read Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Read Nonfiction Articles
Write Character Analysis Essay
Watch Macbeth Movie
Standards:
RL.2 Ddetermine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account. Provide an objective summary of the text
RL.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama
RL.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text
W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences, effective technique, well-chose, details, and well-structured event sequences.
W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience
Vocabulary:
- Thane Monologue Soliloquy
- Acts Drama
*More to be determined
Unit Six: Novel Study
*Novel to be determined at later date based on interest, ability and needs of students
Unit Seven: Literature Circles
Students will work in collaborative units to read and analyze the young adult novel of their choice and to produce projects to demonstrate understanding.
In this unit all standards are incorporated
**** Grammar and language standards will be incorporated into each unit based on needs of students
******* Speaking and Listening opportunities will be incorporated into each unit.