August

Monday

Tuesday

2014

Wednesd
ay

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

28

29

30

31

10

16

17

23

24

29

30

31

Classes
Begin
11

Introductions, Classroom Procedures and

Management.

12

13

Unit One: Senior

Research Project
Introduction and
Expectations

18

19

26

20

21

22

Collect research

27

Collect
Research

15

Initial research to help

students pick a topic.

Thesis statement
and MLA format
*Topic should be
chosen

25

14

28
Rough Draft

Notes:
Unit One: Senior Research Project

Standards
Reading:
-11-12.RI.7
-12.RI.10.
Writing:
-11-12.W.1
-11-12.W.2
Literacy Skills:
-Thinking maps/organizers
-MLA format
-Peer Editing
-Conventions/Rhetoric
Assessments:
-Practice thesis
-Research
-Rough draft/Peer assessment
-Final Draft/Project Portfolio

September
Monday

Tuesday

Labor
Day-No
Classes

Rough
Draft
Due

Wednesd
ay

Thursday

16

Unit 2: Drama
Frontloading

22

23

10

17
Late
Start

24

Continue Act one:

Reading log and
Comprehension
check

29

30

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

13

14

20

21

Peer edits and refinement of

research

11

Refinement of final paper and

portfolio preparation (include cover
page, thesis, research, rough draft,
final paper, and works cited

15

2014

18

12
First Term
Ends
Project
Portfolio
due

19

Begin Death of a
Salesman-Act one:
Reading log and
Comprehension check

25

26

Begin Act Two: Reading log

and Comprehension check

*Weekend reading
assigned if necessary

27

28

*Weekend reading
assigned if necessary

10

11

12

Finish Act Two and

Requiem : (R.L and
C.C) Essay rubric and

instructions given

Notes:
Unit 2: Drama

William Shakespeare:
-Macbeth
Arthur Miller
-Death of a Salesman
Standards:
Reading:
-11-12.RL.2
-11-12.RL.7
-12.RL.10
Writing:
-12.W.2b
-12.W.2e
Themes:
-Power
-Fate
-Family
-Responsibility
*Essential questions will be centered around these themes
Literacy Skills:
-Sequence of events chart
-Word bank
Assessments:
-Short Comprehension Checks (8 True False, 2 short answer)
-Reading logs
-Essay
-Group Skits

October
Monday

29

Tuesday

30

Wednesda
y

2014
Thursday

Friday

Group
Tableau

Essay

Essay and
Portfolio
Due

(*working
on essay
at home)

Saturday

Sunday

10

11

12

16

17

18

19

25

26

Fall Break

13

14

Frontloading
Activity

15
Late
Start
Begin

Act One: Reading log

and comprehension
check

Macbeth

20

21

22

28

29

30

Notes:
Unit Two: Drama Continued/End

31

Act Five: RL and CC

Act Four: Reading log and

comprehension check

24

Act Three: Reading log and

comprehension check

Act Two: Reading

log and
comprehension
check

27

23

Give Essay
instructions/Rubric

2014
November
Monday

Tuesday

27

28

Wednesd
ay

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

30

31

29

Group Skits

11

Unit 3:
Frontloading

Veterans
Day-No
Classes

Poetry

17
T.S. Eliot:
The Love
Song of J.
Alfred
Prufrock

18

12

20

Samuel Taylor
Coleridge: The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner
(C.C.)
Late Start

24

25

26

Themes/
Motifs

Group
Poems/
Readings

Group
Poems/
Readings

Notes:

13

Edgar Allan Poe: The

Raven /Fairy-Land
(Comprehension check

19

15

16

22

23

29

30

Project
Portfolio
Due

Essay

(*working on essay
at home)

10

14
T.S. Eliot:
Sweeney
among the
Nightingales

21

Lord Byron:
Prometheus/ She
Walks in Beauty

27

28

Thanksgiving
Break
4

Unit Three: Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe
-The Raven/ Fairy-Land
T.S. Eliot
-Sweeny among the Nightingales/ The Love Song of Alfred J.
Prufrock
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Lord Byron
-Prometheus/ She Walks in Beauty
Nikki Giovani
-Nikki Rosa/ Mothers
Maya Angelou
-Caged Bird/Mothers
Pat Mora
-Elena/Legal Alien
Gary Soto
-Mexicans Begin Jogging/ Sizing up a Marriage
Standards:
Reading:
- 11-12.RL.6
- 11-12.RI.4
Writing:
-11-12.W.4
- 11-12.W.6
Speaking and Listening:
-11-12.SL.6

Themes:
-Love
-Supernatural
-Family
-Diversity
-Oppression
*Essential questions will be centered on these themes
Literacy Skills:
-Annotation
-Drafting/Revision
Assessments:
-Short Comprehension Checks (8 True False, 2 short answer)
-Essay
-Group Poems
-Unit Portfolio

2014
December
Monday

Tuesday

Wednesda
y

Nikki-Rosa
Pat Mora:
Legal
Alien

10
Gary Soto:
Mexicans Begin
Jogging/Sizing Up a
Marriage

15

16

Group
Poems/Re
adings

Unit
Portfolio
Due

Maya Angelou:
Cage Bird/ A
Plagued Journey

Nikki Giovanni:
Nikki-Rosa and
Mothers

Thursday

17

Friday

Sunday

13

14

20

21

27

28

Pat Mora:
Elena
Comprehe
nsion
Check

11

12

Themes/
Motifs

Group
Poems/

Comprehe
nsion
Check

Readings

18

19

Semester Exams

Saturday

End of
Second
Term- No

Classes

22

23

24

25

26

Winter Break- No School

29

30

31

10

11

Winter Break- No School

Notes:

Unit 3: Continued/End