RE12 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
- How Writers Write
What is the writing process?
Skills
-Ability to identify the steps of the writing process.
-Ability to place examples within the steps of the writing process.
Assessment
Oral questioning about writing process
Test over Chapter 1
Short writing assignments
Resources
Reading Literature
Blue Level by the McDougal, Littell English Program
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
- Short Stories:
The Dog of Pompeii
The Fan Club
The Test
The Most Dangerous Game
Humans are Different
The Ransom of Red Chief
The Old Man
- Relationships and inferences
- Context clues
What are short stories?
What are the literary elements of short stories?
How are the elements of setting, characterization, plot, theme, and mood reflected in the short stories studied?
What information can be inferred from reading selected stories?
How can word meanings be detected from context?
Skills
- Ability to read and analyze selected short stories.
- Ability to identify the setting, characterization, plot, theme, and mood in the short stories read in class.
- Ability to recognize chronological and cause and effect ordering.
- Ability to predict outcomes and make inferences based on reading.
- Ability to define words based on context clues.
Assessment
Worksheets over individual stories - containing multiple choice, true/false, and short construct response writing questions.
Test over Chapter 2 - Short Stories which covers all literary elements and comprehension and vocabulary skills
Resources
Reading Literature - Blue Level
Video - The Most Dangerous Game
Video - Rome and Pompeii
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
- The Sounds of Language
- Figures of Speech
- Poetry
- Structure and meaning of poetry
- Using the dictionary
- All poems in chapter four of textbook
What are alliteration, assonance, rhyme, rhythm, and onomatopoeia?
What are similes and metaphors?
What are personification and hyperbole?
How are poems structured?
What are effective ways of using a dictionary?
In each poem read, what are examples of figures of speech, use of the sounds of language, and structure and meaning of the poem?
Skills
- Ability to identify alliteration, assonance, rhyme, rhythm, and onomatopoeia in poetry.
- Ability to identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in poetry.
- Ability to read and interpret a poem.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of how to find a word in the dictionary.
Assessment
Worksheets over groups of individual poems
Test over Chapters 3 - Techniques Writers Use(elements of poetry) and 4 - Poetry -literary elements, comprehension, and vocabulary skills
Resources
Reading Literature - Blue Level
Teacher reading poetry aloud
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
- Nonfiction
Evaluating nonfiction
Using word parts from Of Men and Mountains
Not to Go with the Others
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Wilma Rudolph
Not Poor, Just Broke
from My Life in and out of Baseball
from Travels with Charley
from Blue Highways
Fresh Air Will Kill You
At the Funeral
The Fraudulent Ant
The First Basketball Game
Pompeii
What is nonfiction?
What are the types of nonfiction?
How does a reader properly evaluate nonfiction?
Why is learning about suffixes, prefixes, and root words important in determining word meanings?
How are elements of nonfiction and fiction reflected in the selections read?
Skills
- Ability to identify types of nonfiction.
- Ability to evaluate nonfiction by knowing the difference between fact and opinion, by being able to determine writer's purpose, and by recognizing errors in reasoning.
- Ability to determine word meanings by applying knowledge of word parts.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate selected nonfiction selections based on above criteria.
Assessment
Worksheets over individual nonfiction selections.
Test over Chapter 5 - Nonfiction - literary elements, comprehension and vocabulary
Resources
Reading Literature - Blue Level
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
- The long short story
- How new words are created
Flowers for Algernon
- Drama
- Evaluation of drama
- Levels of Language
The Hitchhiker
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
The Monkey's Paw
Sackett by Louis L'Amour
- Final examination
What is a long short story?
How are new words created?
How are the elements of short fiction reflected in Flowers for Algernon?
What is drama?
How does a reader/viewer evaluate drama?
What are the different levels of standard and nonstandard English?
How are the elements of fiction and drama reflected in the three plays?
How are the elements of literature reflected in the novel Sackett by Louis L'Amour
Skills
- Ability to define and explain the elements of a long short story.
- Ability to explain how new words are created and explain origins of given words.
- Ability to recognize the theme of Flowers for Algernon.
- Ability to define drama, to identify the elements of drama, and to identify different types of plays.
- Ability to properly evaluate the plays read in class.
- Ability to identify examples of standard and nonstandard English and slang.
- Ability to read novel and identify elements of fiction in novel.
Assessment
Worksheets over Flowers for Algernon
Test over Chapter 6 - The Long Short Story - literary elements, comprehension and vocabulary skills
Worksheets over each play
Test over Chapter 7 - Drama - literary elements, comprehension and vocabulary skills
Periodic quizzes over chapters in Sackett with true/false, completion, and short answer questions
Final exam - covers all information in book along with the novel (fall semester only)
Resources
Reading Literature - Blue Level
videos - Flowers for Algernon, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, The Monkey's Paw, and Sackett
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
