Language Arts Grade Level Team: Alva High School
English I
English I
English III
English IV
AP Literature
20 Days
Big Questions: Is Conflict Necessary? Principles of Literature (terms and structure) Anchor Texts: Various Short Stories Writing Focus: Short Story Creation Language Focus: Commas and Clauses
Intro/Rules/Library/Foma t Presentations Short Stories Collections/Plot, Read, & Listen Creative Writing/Formal Writing Sah Bradbury O’Flaherty Connell du Maurier Dahl
Big Question: Why do we argue? Focus: Argument in both reading and writing Read multiple argumentative texts from multiple eras of American Literature Argument Presentations
Honors Resume ACT Style Reading, Listening, & Writing Presentation/Speaking
20 Days
Big Question: Is Knowledge the same as Understanding? Non Fiction Differences between nonfiction and fiction Anchor Texts: Multiple Non-Fiction Pieces Writing Focus: Speeches and Memoirs Language Focus: Passive/Active Voice Big Questions: How Does Communication Change Us? and Why is Tradition Important? Anchor Text: To Kill a Mockingbird Supplemental: Short Stories/Poems/Speeches that are thematically related to the novel Writing Focus: Personal Narrative (Narrator) Language Focus: Parallel Structure
Classics/Fiction/Nonfictio n Presentation Writing Creative & Formal Edit Process
Big Question: Where do we come from? Anchor Text: The Crucible Focus: Character, Speech, and Conflict Writing Focus: Rhetoric
Anglo-Saxon Beowulf Riddles Creative Writing & Formal Fiction & Nonfiction
Senior Resumes Class lectures and discussion on deep literary analysis Short literature and analysis writing (minimum 4) Reading Focus: Short Stories Anchor Text: Ethan Frome (20 days) War Unit Narrative Writing as storytelling method Anchor Text: The Things They Carried (20 days)
Analyze Writing & Characters Read & Listen Presentations/Setting Writing Formal & Creative Hughes Vonnegut Capote Johnson
Big Question: Where do we come from? Anchor Text: The Crucible Focus: Character, Speech, and Conflict Writing Focus: Rhetoric (10 days) Big Question: What Scares Us? Anchor Text(s): The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Supplemental Texts: NonFiction and Fiction from the era Writing Focus: Expository (10 days)
Middle Ages Presentations Speaking & Listening Creative Writing/Formal Writing
20 Days
Content: Language Arts
English II
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
Chaucer Boccaccio Gardner Malory
19th Century Literature Anchor Text: Frankenstein Reading Focus: Character Supplemental: 19th Century Poetry (20 days)
20 Days
20 Days
Big Questions: How Does Communication Change Us? and Why is Tradition Important? Anchor Text: To Kill a Mockingbird Supplemental: Short Stories/Poems/Speeches that are thematically related to the novel Writing Focus: Personal Narrative (Narrator) Language Focus: Parallel Structure (10 days) Big Question: What does it mean to argue? Viewing/Reading: Multiple multi-media argument examples Supplemental Texts: Articles, emails, commercials, advertisements Writing Focus: MultiMedia Presentations Language Focus: Complex/Compound Sentence Structures (10 days) Viewing/Reading: Multiple multi-media argument examples Supplemental Texts: Articles, emails, commercials, advertisements Writing Focus: MultiMedia Presentations Language Focus: Complex/Compound Sentence Structures (10 days) Big Questions: How do
Content: Language Arts
Narrator/Third Person Evaluation of Reading & Writing Read & Listen Presentations Writing Formal & Creative Poe O Henry de Maupassant
Big Question: What Scares Us? Anchor Text(s): The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Supplemental Texts: NonFiction and Fiction from the era Writing Focus: Expository (10 days)
ACT Prep Scholarship Essays & Discussion Nonfiction=read & present
20th Century Literature Focus: Theme Anchor Texts: The Catcher in the Rye and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrck Full Length Analysis Paper over Catcher in the Rye (20 days)
Research Papers MLA Format Usage Edit Work
20th Century Literature Focus: Theme Anchor Texts: The Catcher in the Rye and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrck Full Length Analysis Paper over Catcher in the Rye (10 days)
Early 20th Century Literature Big Question: How Do We Help Each Other? Anchor Text: Of Mice and Men Supplemental: Short Stories and Poems from the era Writing Focus: Character Development (10 days)
Revising & Edit Work ACT Practice Watch & Listen nonfiction & fiction
Early 20th Century Literature Big Question: How Do We Help Each Other? Anchor Text: Of Mice and Men Supplemental: Short Stories and Poems from the era Writing Focus: Character Development (10 days) Big Question: What Does it
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
Drama Unit Anchor Text: Hamlet or King Lear Various supporting Texts Writing Focus: Character
differences define us? Anchor Text: Romeo and Juliet Supplemental Texts: Different Versions of the play including Shakespeare Star Wars (10 days)
20 Days
20 Days
Big Questions: How do differences define us? Anchor Text: Romeo and Juliet Supplemental Texts: Different Versions of the play including Shakespeare Star Wars
Big Questions: Do Heroes Have Responsibilities? Anchor Text: The Odyssey and Night Supplemental Texts:
Content: Language Arts
Mean to Achieve the American Dream? Anchor Text: The Great Gatsby Supplemental: Non-Fiction on the era, themes, and American Dream Writing Focus: Character Analysis Full Length Character Analysis on The Great Gatsby (10 days)
Theme/Sensory writing & details Bio v Auto Presentations Writing Creative & Formal Hurst Angelou Walker
Nonfiction focus/Current Events Shakespeare & Theatre Writing formal & creative Presentations
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Big Question: What Does it Mean to Achieve the American Dream? Anchor Text: The Great Gatsby Supplemental: Non-Fiction on the era, themes, and American Dream Writing Focus: Character Analysis Full Length Character Analysis on The Great Gatsby (10 days) Research Paper MLA, Paraphrasing, and Summarization Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Outlines, Research, and Proper Search Skills Argument Paper and Argument Presentation (10 days) Research Paper MLA, Paraphrasing, and Summarization Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
and Tragedy (10 days)
Typing Research ACT Prep Presentations/Fiction
Drama Unit Anchor Text: Hamlet or King Lear Various supporting Texts Writing Focus: Character and Tragedy (10 days Satire Unit Anchor Texts: 1984 and The Importance of Being Earnest Theme Focus: The Dangers of Conformity Writing Focus: Satire as a storytelling method Begin Group Book Project (10 days)
Renaissance Background/Theatre Shakespeare Macbeth Acts I-V
Satire Unit Anchor Texts: 1984 and The Importance of Being Earnest Theme Focus: The Dangers
20 Days
20 Days
Examples of Heroism (both fiction and nonfiction) Writing Focus: Epic Poetry Language Focus: Making Claims and Supporting Them Big Questions: Do Heroes Have Responsibilities? Anchor Text: The Odyssey and Night Supplemental Texts: Examples of Heroism (both fiction and nonfiction) Writing Focus: Epic Poetry Language Focus: Making Claims and Supporting Them (10 days) Research Main Focus: Principles of Research, MLA Format, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Writing Focus: Argument Paper/Presentation (10 days) Research Main Focus: Principles of Research, MIA Format, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Writing Focus: Argument Paper/Presentation
Outlines, Research, and Proper Search Skills Argument Paper and Argument Presentation (20 days)
ACT Practice Cause & Effect Current Events Writing Formal & Creative Presenatations
Protest Literature Big Question: Why do we Rebel? Anchor Texts: Speeches, Short Stories, and Poems from the 1960s and 70s counterculture movement Writing Focus: Protest Poems and Stories
Restoration & 18th Formal & Creative Writing Presentations
Classic Reading & Listening Presentations Writing Formal & Creative Read & Listen Homer
Literary Works of the late 20th/early 21st century Big Question: How did we get where we are now? Anchor Texts: Various Works in fiction and nonfiction Writing Focus: Personal Narrative ***All units will focus on vocabulary (both Membean and SelectionSpecific Vocab). Students will participate in weekly
Reading short pieces & novels/fiction & non
***Vocabulary taught throughout every unit (membean and selection specific vocabualary)
Content: Language Arts
of Conformity Writing Focus: Satire as a storytelling method Begin Group Book Project (20 days)
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
Swift Pope Boyle
Presentations/Writing formal documents
16th-21st Century Poetry Focus on all types of poetry from 500 years of selections Focused Writing will include weekly poetry analysis and writing Group Book Project: Weekly Group Work (20 days)
21st Century Literature Anchor Text: American Gods Writing: Comparison of literature to other media Complete Group Book Project AP Literature Test Prep Review and Revisit all topics from the year in preparation for the final exam
ACT practice selections in both English and Reading. All units will contain formal articles and non-fiction as preparation for standardized testing.
Content: Language Arts
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
***All units will contain selection specific vocabulary and grammar/writing practice. All units will also contain weekly timed writing assignments and AP Multiple Choice Practice selections
English I
English III
English IV
AP Literature
20 Days
Big Questions: Is Conflict Necessary? Principles of Literature (terms and structure) Anchor Texts: Various Short Stories Writing Focus: Short Story Creation Language Focus: Commas and Clauses
Intro/Rules/Library/Foma t Presentations Short Stories Collections/Plot, Read, & Listen Creative Writing/Formal Writing Sah Bradbury O’Flaherty Connell du Maurier Dahl
Big Question: Why do we argue? Focus: Argument in both reading and writing Read multiple argumentative texts from multiple eras of American Literature Argument Presentations
Honors Resume ACT Style Reading, Listening, & Writing Presentation/Speaking
20 Days
Big Question: Is Knowledge the same as Understanding? Non Fiction Differences between nonfiction and fiction Anchor Texts: Multiple Non-Fiction Pieces Writing Focus: Speeches and Memoirs Language Focus: Passive/Active Voice Big Questions: How Does Communication Change Us? and Why is Tradition Important? Anchor Text: To Kill a Mockingbird Supplemental: Short Stories/Poems/Speeches that are thematically related to the novel Writing Focus: Personal Narrative (Narrator) Language Focus: Parallel Structure
Classics/Fiction/Nonfictio n Presentation Writing Creative & Formal Edit Process
Big Question: Where do we come from? Anchor Text: The Crucible Focus: Character, Speech, and Conflict Writing Focus: Rhetoric
Anglo-Saxon Beowulf Riddles Creative Writing & Formal Fiction & Nonfiction
Senior Resumes Class lectures and discussion on deep literary analysis Short literature and analysis writing (minimum 4) Reading Focus: Short Stories Anchor Text: Ethan Frome (20 days) War Unit Narrative Writing as storytelling method Anchor Text: The Things They Carried (20 days)
Analyze Writing & Characters Read & Listen Presentations/Setting Writing Formal & Creative Hughes Vonnegut Capote Johnson
Big Question: Where do we come from? Anchor Text: The Crucible Focus: Character, Speech, and Conflict Writing Focus: Rhetoric (10 days) Big Question: What Scares Us? Anchor Text(s): The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Supplemental Texts: NonFiction and Fiction from the era Writing Focus: Expository (10 days)
Middle Ages Presentations Speaking & Listening Creative Writing/Formal Writing
20 Days
Content: Language Arts
English II
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
Chaucer Boccaccio Gardner Malory
19th Century Literature Anchor Text: Frankenstein Reading Focus: Character Supplemental: 19th Century Poetry (20 days)
20 Days
20 Days
Big Questions: How Does Communication Change Us? and Why is Tradition Important? Anchor Text: To Kill a Mockingbird Supplemental: Short Stories/Poems/Speeches that are thematically related to the novel Writing Focus: Personal Narrative (Narrator) Language Focus: Parallel Structure (10 days) Big Question: What does it mean to argue? Viewing/Reading: Multiple multi-media argument examples Supplemental Texts: Articles, emails, commercials, advertisements Writing Focus: MultiMedia Presentations Language Focus: Complex/Compound Sentence Structures (10 days) Viewing/Reading: Multiple multi-media argument examples Supplemental Texts: Articles, emails, commercials, advertisements Writing Focus: MultiMedia Presentations Language Focus: Complex/Compound Sentence Structures (10 days) Big Questions: How do
Content: Language Arts
Narrator/Third Person Evaluation of Reading & Writing Read & Listen Presentations Writing Formal & Creative Poe O Henry de Maupassant
Big Question: What Scares Us? Anchor Text(s): The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Supplemental Texts: NonFiction and Fiction from the era Writing Focus: Expository (10 days)
ACT Prep Scholarship Essays & Discussion Nonfiction=read & present
20th Century Literature Focus: Theme Anchor Texts: The Catcher in the Rye and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrck Full Length Analysis Paper over Catcher in the Rye (20 days)
Research Papers MLA Format Usage Edit Work
20th Century Literature Focus: Theme Anchor Texts: The Catcher in the Rye and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrck Full Length Analysis Paper over Catcher in the Rye (10 days)
Early 20th Century Literature Big Question: How Do We Help Each Other? Anchor Text: Of Mice and Men Supplemental: Short Stories and Poems from the era Writing Focus: Character Development (10 days)
Revising & Edit Work ACT Practice Watch & Listen nonfiction & fiction
Early 20th Century Literature Big Question: How Do We Help Each Other? Anchor Text: Of Mice and Men Supplemental: Short Stories and Poems from the era Writing Focus: Character Development (10 days) Big Question: What Does it
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
Drama Unit Anchor Text: Hamlet or King Lear Various supporting Texts Writing Focus: Character
differences define us? Anchor Text: Romeo and Juliet Supplemental Texts: Different Versions of the play including Shakespeare Star Wars (10 days)
20 Days
20 Days
Big Questions: How do differences define us? Anchor Text: Romeo and Juliet Supplemental Texts: Different Versions of the play including Shakespeare Star Wars
Big Questions: Do Heroes Have Responsibilities? Anchor Text: The Odyssey and Night Supplemental Texts:
Content: Language Arts
Mean to Achieve the American Dream? Anchor Text: The Great Gatsby Supplemental: Non-Fiction on the era, themes, and American Dream Writing Focus: Character Analysis Full Length Character Analysis on The Great Gatsby (10 days)
Theme/Sensory writing & details Bio v Auto Presentations Writing Creative & Formal Hurst Angelou Walker
Nonfiction focus/Current Events Shakespeare & Theatre Writing formal & creative Presentations
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Big Question: What Does it Mean to Achieve the American Dream? Anchor Text: The Great Gatsby Supplemental: Non-Fiction on the era, themes, and American Dream Writing Focus: Character Analysis Full Length Character Analysis on The Great Gatsby (10 days) Research Paper MLA, Paraphrasing, and Summarization Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Outlines, Research, and Proper Search Skills Argument Paper and Argument Presentation (10 days) Research Paper MLA, Paraphrasing, and Summarization Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
and Tragedy (10 days)
Typing Research ACT Prep Presentations/Fiction
Drama Unit Anchor Text: Hamlet or King Lear Various supporting Texts Writing Focus: Character and Tragedy (10 days Satire Unit Anchor Texts: 1984 and The Importance of Being Earnest Theme Focus: The Dangers of Conformity Writing Focus: Satire as a storytelling method Begin Group Book Project (10 days)
Renaissance Background/Theatre Shakespeare Macbeth Acts I-V
Satire Unit Anchor Texts: 1984 and The Importance of Being Earnest Theme Focus: The Dangers
20 Days
20 Days
Examples of Heroism (both fiction and nonfiction) Writing Focus: Epic Poetry Language Focus: Making Claims and Supporting Them Big Questions: Do Heroes Have Responsibilities? Anchor Text: The Odyssey and Night Supplemental Texts: Examples of Heroism (both fiction and nonfiction) Writing Focus: Epic Poetry Language Focus: Making Claims and Supporting Them (10 days) Research Main Focus: Principles of Research, MLA Format, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Writing Focus: Argument Paper/Presentation (10 days) Research Main Focus: Principles of Research, MIA Format, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Writing Focus: Argument Paper/Presentation
Outlines, Research, and Proper Search Skills Argument Paper and Argument Presentation (20 days)
ACT Practice Cause & Effect Current Events Writing Formal & Creative Presenatations
Protest Literature Big Question: Why do we Rebel? Anchor Texts: Speeches, Short Stories, and Poems from the 1960s and 70s counterculture movement Writing Focus: Protest Poems and Stories
Restoration & 18th Formal & Creative Writing Presentations
Classic Reading & Listening Presentations Writing Formal & Creative Read & Listen Homer
Literary Works of the late 20th/early 21st century Big Question: How did we get where we are now? Anchor Texts: Various Works in fiction and nonfiction Writing Focus: Personal Narrative ***All units will focus on vocabulary (both Membean and SelectionSpecific Vocab). Students will participate in weekly
Reading short pieces & novels/fiction & non
***Vocabulary taught throughout every unit (membean and selection specific vocabualary)
Content: Language Arts
of Conformity Writing Focus: Satire as a storytelling method Begin Group Book Project (20 days)
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
Swift Pope Boyle
Presentations/Writing formal documents
16th-21st Century Poetry Focus on all types of poetry from 500 years of selections Focused Writing will include weekly poetry analysis and writing Group Book Project: Weekly Group Work (20 days)
21st Century Literature Anchor Text: American Gods Writing: Comparison of literature to other media Complete Group Book Project AP Literature Test Prep Review and Revisit all topics from the year in preparation for the final exam
ACT practice selections in both English and Reading. All units will contain formal articles and non-fiction as preparation for standardized testing.
Content: Language Arts
Grade Level Team: Alva High School
Last Updated: June 1, 2017
***All units will contain selection specific vocabulary and grammar/writing practice. All units will also contain weekly timed writing assignments and AP Multiple Choice Practice selections
