RE13 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
- UNIT #1 Personality Inventory/Learning modalities Controlling Question: How can I match my personality style and my learning approaches to my writing?
- Review of the writing process including topics in prewriting, drafting and revising
Skills
- Students assess and understand their own personality traits and learning modalities. Next, students plot strategies to use this information to improve their writing.
Assessment
Trait and modality assessments and Experimental Essay.
Resources
Learning Modality Self-assessment and explanation.
Multiple-intelligence explanations.
Personality assessment and explanation.
Chapters 1,2,3,4 Reasoning and Writing Well (Diestch)
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Note: Each following unit will include a writing and usage component.
- Unit #2: WRITING;Writing the Personal Narrative Essay and work with sentence style and structure. The Personal Narrative portion emphasizes finding and using personal voice, how to write a narrative, and use of description in the narrative.
- USAGE:The sentence style portion covers dependent and independent clauses, sentence structure, (ie. simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex), as well as punctuation in different sentence structures.
Skills
- Students develop multiparagraph essay skills by using the writing process, (ie. prewriting, drafting, peer-editing and revising)
- Students learn how to use different aspects of voice and description in narrative writing. Grammar skills include achieving sentence variety through a use of a variety of sentence structures as well as how to punctuate different sentence structures.
Assessment
Narrative Essay including prewrite, rough draft, peer-editing sheets and final essay.
Assignments from writing and grammar text.
Test over grammar unit.
Resources
Reasoning and Writing Well, chapters 6, 10, 11
English (McDougal, Littell), chapter 26
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
- Unit #3: WRITING: Writing the expository essay, either a Comparison/Contrast or a Process Analysis Essay with an emphasis on paragraphing skills.
- USAGE: Subject Verb Agreement
Skills
- WRITING: Multiparagraph essays skills (prewriting, drafting, peer editing, and revising. Emphasis is placed on use of transitions and effective paragraph skills in expository essays.
- USAGE: Subject verb agreement skills include compound subjects, collective nouns, singular nouns in plural forms, groups and titles as subjects, amounts and times, relative pronouns as subjects
Assessment
Expository essay (prewrite, rough draft, peer edit, and final).
Assignments from writing and grammar text. Test over usage unit.
Resources
Reasoning and Writing Well (Chap. 7,12,15)
English (Chap. 28)
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
- UNIT #4 WRITING: Writing the persuasive essay, either a cause/effect or problem/solution essay with an emphasis on avoiding logical fallacies.
- USAGE: Pronoun Usage
Skills
- WRITING: Multiparagraph skills (prewriting, drafting, peer editing, revising). Emphasis is placed on recognizing and avoiding a wide variety of logical fallacies.
- GRAMMAR: Pronoun usage skills include nominative and objective and possessive case, comparative and superlative, antecedent agreement, and pronoun reference problems.
Assessment
Reasoning and Writing Well (Chap. 17,18,19)
English (Chap. 29)
Resources
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
- UNIT #5: WRITING: Writing the researched informative and persuasive essay using MLA style documentation with a title page, outline page, works cited and parenthetical documentation. Emphasis is on styling and revising sentences and diction.
- USAGE: Adjective and adverb usage
Skills
- WRITING: Longer multiparagraph essays (2000 words). Students learn how to construct a formal informative and persuasive paper using MLA style documentation. This includes how to create a works cited page as well as how and when to use parenthetical documentation to avoid plagiarism.
- USAGE: Adjective and adverb skills include when to use, comparative and superlative forms, correct comparisons, as well as other modifier problems.
Assessment
Informative and persuasive essays including prewrite, rough draft, peer editing, and final copy.
Assignments from writing and grammar texts. Test over usage unit.
Resources
Reasoning and Writing Well (Chap. 5,8,9,20)
English (Chap. 30)
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
- The Tragedy of Hamlet (2 weeks)
- A careful reading and study of Hamlet. Emphasis is on literary analysis with a specific emphasis on character analysis.
- Introduction to Research paper
Skills
Literary and character analysis
Writing from research
Gathering data
Searches (print and electronic)
Assessment
Test and extended essay (2,000 words)
Resources
Play and movie (Mel Gibson)
Chapters 1,2,3,4
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
- Writing the research paper
Skills
- Gathering and analyzing data
- Organizing ideas
- Setting goals
- Structuring the paper
- Finding/reading good sources
- Academic integrity
Assessment
Resources
Chapters 5,6,7,8,9
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
- Writing the research paper
Skills
- Note taking and rough drafting
- Blending MLA style
- Parenthetical documentation
- Works cited
- Title page
- Outline/thesis page
Assessment
10,000 word research paper
Resources
Chap. 10,11,12,13,14,
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
- Study of Old and Middle English periods from Beowulf to Chaucer. Emphasis placed on understanding the origins and development of the English language and culture.
Skills
- Ability to read and understand translations of early English literature
- Understand its unique structure and style
See the literature as a representation of the concerns/ideals of the time
Assessment
Daily class work
Unit essay
Unit notebook
Unit literary analysis/historical essay
Resources
Beowulf
"The Wanderer"
"The Seafarer"
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of English People
"Caedmon's Hymn"
Class handouts
English riddles
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Le Morte Darthur
Intro to Chaucer and the Cantebury Tales
"The Prologue"
"The Parson's Tale"
Various tale summaries
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
- Modern English Unit
- Themes common to modern English novels particularly the inherent goodness and evil of humanity
Skills
Read and understand a modern English novel
Be able to analyze theme
Assessment
Daily work
Literary analysis (theme)
Resources
Lord of the Flies book and video
Optional
