enCompass Academy 2016-17 / English

English 1B Pacing Guide

Week / Unit / Standards / Assessment
1 / Learning Styles / W3- Write narratives using a formal style and narrative techniques that engage and orient the reader showing the relationships among experiences and events; provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated event. /
  1. Website
  2. Learning Style Inventory
  3. Reflection Essay
  4. Intro to Writer’s Workshop

2 / Vietnam War / ET5- Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of the text.
ET6-Cintinue evaluating the development of the author’s viewpoint/perspective and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that POV or purpose.
ET9- Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance including how they address related themes and concepts.
S&L2- Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats evaluating credibility and accuracy of each source. /
  1. Background Info Sheet
  2. Photo Essay Evaluation
  3. “Good Morning, Vietnam” clip response
  4. Newspaper Article on Vietnam
  5. Reading Article One Section Eight of the Constitution
  6. Expository lesson and writing
  7. Writer’s Workshop

3 / The Things They Carried / LT5- Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. /
  1. The Things They Carried Study Guide
  2. Vocabulary #1
  3. Expository essay
  4. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  5. Listenwise

4 / Letter Writing / W10- Write routinely over extended time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
W5- Focus on how well audience and purpose is addressed. /
  1. PowerPoint on parts of a letter notes
  2. Letter drafting sheet
  3. Rough draft
  4. Peer Edit
  5. Final draft
  6. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

5 / War Poetry / LT7- Analyze the representation of a subject or key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
LT6- Analyze a particular POV or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide range of world literature. /
  1. Five Ways to Kill a Man and Gassed Last Night- discussion on allusion and free verse
  2. Death of a Ball Turret-metaphor, simile, symbol
  3. English (Sonnet 29 and Safety)/Italian sonnet (The Solider and Peace)
  4. Quiz #1
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

6 / The Things They Carried / ET7- Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums determining which details are emphasized in each account.
L&S3- Listen to and evaluate the logic of a speaker’s argument with attention to POV, reasoning and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying and fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence. /
  1. Love and Spin study guides
  2. On the Rainy River study guide
  3. Newspaper article on Tim O’Brien
  4. Vocabulary #2
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

7 / The Things They Carried / ET9- Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance including how they address related themes and concepts.
W10- Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. /
  1. Enemies and Friends study guide
  2. PowerPoint on the draft notes
  3. Choices when drafted- what would you do?
  4. Deciding who should be eligible for selective service
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  6. Listenwise

8 / War Poetry / LT2- Determine a theme or a central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
LT4- Determine the meanings of words and phrases, analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning & tone
W1- Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence /
  1. In Flanders Field and The Hero(did not valorize war)
  2. Types of poems- haiku, limerick, concrete: reader’s theater performance
  3. The Second Coming (Nationalism)
  4. Written response “Old men might make wars that young men have to fight.”
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

9 / Persuasive Essay / W1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence W8- Synthesize multiple credible sources on the subject demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation; all research includes both multiple print and digital.
W9- Draw evidence from literary of informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research applying grades 9-10th reading standards as needed. /
  1. Quiz #2
  2. PowerPoint notes on writing a persuasive essay
  3. Evaluating sample persuasive pieces
  4. Outline/graphic organizer
  5. Rough draft
  6. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

10 / Persuasive Essay / W1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
EW3- Demonstrate independence in writing by making effective choices for meaning and style and conforming to a style manual. /
  1. Peer edit
  2. Final draft
  3. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  4. Listenwise-Audio and response

11 / The Things They Carried / LT3- Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interacts with other characters, and advances the plot or develops the theme.
LT1-Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
WA4- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on the grade 9-10 reading and content choosing flexibility from a range of strategies. /
  1. How to Tell a True War Story study guide
  2. The Dentist study guide
  3. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong study guide
  4. Vocabulary # 3
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

12 / The Things They Carried / LT2- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
LT6- Analyze a particular POV or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the US, drawing on a wide range of world literature. /
  1. Church study guide
  2. The Man I Killed study guide
  3. Ambush and Style study guide
  4. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  5. Listenwise

13 / War Poetry / WA5- Demonstrate an understanding of figurative language and word relationships, analyze nuances in word meanings with similar denotations and interpret figures of speech in context.
WA6- Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level. /
  1. The Wind on the Downs and Over the Top and What do I Remember of the Evacuation (how war impacts women & children)- imagery, tine, irony
  2. U.S. Marines Hymn, Blowing in the Wind, and Where is the Love?- role music plays in war
  3. There Will Come Soft Rains
  4. Final exam on war poetry unit
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

14 / The Things They Carried / WA4- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on the grade 9-10 reading and content choosing flexibility from a range of strategies.
LT5- Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. /
  1. Speaking of Courage study guide
  2. Notes study guide
  3. Vocabulary #4
  4. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  5. Listenwise

15 / Expository Essay / ET4- Determine the meanings of words and phrases with an emphasis on technical meanings and analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
ET8- Continue to delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text and identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
ET10-By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffoldings as needed at the high end of the range. /
  1. Newspaper articles on Vietnam conflict
  2. Evaluating sample expository texts (fallacious reasoning)
  3. PowerPoint on expository writing
  4. Outline/graphic organizer for expository essay
  5. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  1. Listenwise

16 / Expository Essay / W2- Write informative/explanatory texts using a formal style, and objective tone, precise language, and domain-specific vocabulary. Develop the topic with sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic using transitions to create cohesion.
EW3- Demonstrate independence in writing by making effective choices for meaning and style and conforming to a style manual. /
  1. Rough draft
  2. Review practice and quiz on writing a properly formatted essay, including pre-organization
  3. Wednesday Writer’s Workshop
  4. Peer edit
  5. Final draft

17 / The Things They Carried / LT10- By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. /
  1. The Ghost Soldiers, Nightlife, and The Lives of the Dead study guides
  2. Final exam on The Things They Carried

18 / Portfolios / S&L4- Continue to use public speaking techniques to present information, clearly and concisely, and logically with organization, development, substance, and style that are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
S&L5- Continue to make strategic use of multi-media components and visual displays in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. /
  1. Portfolio presentations