RE11 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
- What is the American Dream?
- How has writing changed/developed from America's earliest days?
- What is the legacy of the Puritans?
- Why is the play "The Crucible" considered a timeless piece that is still relevant today?
- How have Native Americans contributed to the literature of Americans?
- What is an allusion and how did the Puritans use them?
- What is satire? tone?
- What is Predestination?
- How does Ben Franklin typify the American Dream?
Skills
- Read and interpret the historical narrative
- Analyze the narrative's plain style
- Express understanding through creative writing, critical writing and discussion
- Understand and use new words.
- Be able to empathize with a different culture
- Understand and use allusions
- Understand autobiography
- Creative writing involving current events of historical significance
- Understand aphorisms
Assessment
Formal Assessment or essay
Written journal describing the "Journey" from a Native American point of view
Informative essay on a native American tribe from the northeast,or Compare/Contrast Essay on the Virginia settlers and the Massachusetts pilgrims
Make a list of aphorisms that apply to you as an individual
Make an Almanac (maxims, jokes and recipes) as well as community events
Resources
Text: A Narrative of the Captivity Of Plymouth Plantation Beginnings Library, Internet
William Byrd: The History of the Dividing Line
Johnathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Ben Franklin's Autobiography
Optional
Movie Squanto or Last of the Mohicans
February
Content and Essential Skills
- What does the term Romanticism mean when applied to American Literature?
- Can Romanticism play a part in today's technological world?
- What are the historical and social forces that shaped American Romanticism?
- How does the literature reflect the theme of "Transforming the Imagination?"
- How does the "journey" reflect American
- Romanticism?
- Who are the "Fireside Poets?"
Skills
- Use context clues to discover word meanings.
- Interpret literary elements with special emphasis on the sonnet
- Respond to the literature in a variety of modes
- Learn and use new vocabulary
- Explore ways to move toward a lifestyle in harmony with nature
- Plan , draft , revise, edit, proof, and publish a literary analysis
- Understand analogy
- How does the setting reflect Romanticism?
Assessment
Quizzes
Independent project that includes the main poems of the Romantic era
Short essays that involve independent study and thinking skills
Resources
Textbook selections that vary with students' ability
Outside sources as needed
Optional
Outside sources such as anthologies, internet and library
March
Content and Essential Skills
- What is the meaning of the word Renaissance?
- What does "Literary Coming of Age Mean?"
- What are the historical and social forces that shaped the American Renaissance?
- How does the American Renaissance relate to contemporary culture?
- What does the term "Transcendentalism" mean?
Skills
- Interpret literary elements used in literature, i.e. imagery, symbolism, allusion, setting, etc.
- Identify and interpret figures of speech
- Interpret an essay for its historical and literary value.
- Analyze situational irony
- Define and understand transcendentalism, and how it applies to modern times.
- Learn and use new words
- Define an abstract concept
- Know the origins of the Utopian movement
- Analyze paradoxes
Assessment
Short essay
Creative writing
Formal assessment
Resources
Handbook of Literary elements
Viewing and Representing (Video)
Words to own
Text
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
- Who are the Dark Romantics?
- Why are they so named?
- How can setting be a character?
- Is being drawn to the "dark side" inevitable as part of human nature?
- What are literary sound effects?
- What are positive and negative connotations?
- What is a parable?
- What is characterization?
- How do specific writers develop their characters?
- What does Moby Dick symbolize for Ahab?
Skills
- Define and recognize allusions
- Define and recognize alliteration, figurative language, archaisms, symbols
- Express understanding of the above through critical and creative writing
- What is situational irony?
- Understand new words
- Understand the Gothic Tradition and how it relates to contemporary literature
Assessment
Formal Assessment
compose a gothic poem
create atmosphere in an original piece of writing
Resources
Text
Internet
Videos of old gothic stories
Teacher resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
- How did America's literary point of view change after the Civil War?
- What is abolitionism?
- How did the campaign for women's suffrage affect literature?
- What does a "clash of idealolgies" mean?
- What contributions did Walt Whitman and Herman Melville make to the literary world of Civil War America?
- What are extended metaphors?
- What are comic devices?
- What is realism?
- Why were there no significant literary works published about the Civil War?
- What is dialect?
Skills
- Understand the social problems of the times; the horrors of slavery, and the oppression of women.
- Understand realism, rationalism, regionalism, naturalism.
- Analyze metaphors
- Understand "code songs"
- Understand American Indian Oratory
- Understand and use extended metaphors and comic devices
- Understand and use hyperbole
- Be able to recognize various points of view in a single story.
- Be able to read and understand an example of dialect
Assessment
Formal Assessment
Test Generator
Creative writing assignment
Project to include a Unit representation
Resources
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Code Songs of the slaves
American Indian Oratory
Text; videos, recordings from CD Rom
Voices from the Civil War
Optional
