English/Language Arts Curriculum Guide
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| Identify types of fallacies (ad hominem, over-generalization,
misleading syllogism).
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- Distribute cause-effect graphic organizer. - Use exercises in Elements. - Define terms, give examples. - WRSD Literacy Guide, section XV- A. |
Collect and analyze letters to the editor, editorials.Identify fallacious reasoning. | - On a test, identify types of fallacies in opinion pieces.
On a test, - Take test from Elements. - Produce a skit which demonstrates faulty logic.
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- Role playing: Jumping to conclusions. - Reflective essay on when we have used faulty logic and the consequences thereof.
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- Elements of Writing, Chapter 8, Harcourt - Newspapers, news magazines (Time, Newsweek ).
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| Deliver oral presentations using enunciation, gesture, tone,
appropriate vocabulary, and organization.
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- List criteria for effective speaking: guidelines and
expectations. - Point out elements of successful ad campaigns. |
- Present a topic of current interest. - Present a topic related to literature. - Collect articles from newspapers. -Report on ad campaigns.
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- Class rating sheets. - Teacher's criteria. - Self-assessment. - Develop and present a "state-of-the-arts" ad campaign.
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- Add props, art, maps to accompany presentation. - Visual aids, posters, T-shirts, brochures. |
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey - News magazines - Writer's Resource Elements
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| Analyze and evaluate themselves and others regarding participation in group discussion. | - Teacher to define term aphorism. - Distribute group evaluations. - Lead discussion of cause and effect. - Use graphic organizer. - Put news headlines on board.
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Group discussion of ten aphorisms. Groups of 4, then 2. Brainstorm. | - Choose aphorism. Make a poster. - Group discussion on contemporary meaning of aphorisms. Evaluate by checklist and written summary. - Present one cause-effect analysis.
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- Student leads discussion on a theme (moral). - Write a cause-effect essay and a flow chart, from presentation. |
- Ben Franklin - aphorisms - Adventures in American Literature - Newspapers, magazines - Elements, Holt |
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| Identify, describe, and apply all conventions of standard English to reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. | - Review steps for informative research paper. - Provide a variety of informative writing examples. - Define terms of rhetorical techniques, give examples.
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- Choose a research partner. Distinguish primary and
secondary sources. - Prepare a persuasive essay. Group work on using transitions. |
- Write paper. Give oral presentation. - Use English Department writing rubric standard. - Student portfolio.
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- Short self-evaluation based on rubrics - Correct and evaluate anonymous essays.
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- Elements, Holt - Writer's Workshop - Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine - Warriner's Grammar |
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- Introduce topic of epiphanies. - Assign variety of readings. - Illustrate idea. - Discuss importance of setting.
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- Brainstorm "life's defining moments." - Journal about "firsts." - Prepare graphic organizer for personal essay. - Read novel O' Pioneers. |
- Write essay on a defining experience. - Critique on setting in O' Pioneers. - Use Revision Guide to rewrite (Elements ). |
- Rewrite based on initial assessment. - Write a critique on loss and redemption as a theme in American literature, with appropriate documentation. |
- Elements in Literature, Harcourt - The Essay Connection - Writer's Resource - The Compact Reader - O' Pioneers by Cather - The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne - The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
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| Identify and explain the use of satire, parody, allegory, and
pastoral.
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- Define terms, give examples, explain basis and techniques
of satire, parody and allegory. - Give background of the pastoral tradition. - Show pictures of pastoral scenes. |
- Read selections. - View parodies to compare with the primary sources. - Using Fern Hill, find the pastoral elements. - Sketch one scene from Fern Hill. |
- Analyze a skit from Saturday Night Live. Write
essays on the literary selections: focus on the genres; create a contemporary pastoral
poem. - Parody chart worksheet.
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- Read and report on Pilgrim's Progress, Gulliver's
Travels. - Produce a parody of a popular movie or TV show. Create travel brochure on a pastoral place.
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- The Scarlet Letter - Come Live with me and Be my Love by Marlowe - As You Like It by Shakespeare - The Raven - The Devil and Dan'l Webster - The Simpsons Halloween - Fern Hill by Thomas - Mad Magazine
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| Describe how an author may use elements of fiction for specific rhetorical and aesthetic purposes. | - Present concept of impressionism. Illustrate with
paintings, then in print. - Give information on how a prose author can use poetic devices to add meaning and artistry. - Show examples of "found" poetry. |
- Using Crane's works, find examples of his poetic prose.
Create a "found" poem. - Use a graphic organizer (cluster diagram) to organize details and vivid images. May do the same in Gatsby. |
- Create a slideshow demonstrating the techniques of a
particular movement (impressionism, realism). - Critique on an author's rhetorical techniques.
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- Research artists who visually employ the techniques a
writer uses. - Use a dialogue chart to analyze dialect, rhythm. |
- The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald - The Open Boat by Crane - The Red Badge of Courage by Crane - Elements of Literature audiovisual resources - The Sculptor's Funeral by Cather - The Jungle by Sinclair
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| Demonstrate an understanding of how authors have used archetypes in a variety of genres. | - Instruct on the universality of archetypes. Introduce Jung.
- List archetypes on the board, giving examples from popular culture. - Discuss the power of myth.
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- Using comic books, brainstorm types of characters, symbols
and themes. - View a movie and explicate the archetypal features. Find elements in a literary work.
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- With a partner, present examples of archetypal patterns
from a TV series. - Complete a chart on determining theme. Write a critique focusing on either an archetypal theme or character in a novel.
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- Read examples of archetypal literary criticism. - Write a myth. |
- Man, The Myth Maker - Comic Books - The Golden Bough by Frazer - Archetypal Patterns in Poetry by Bodkin - Anatomy of Criticism by Frye - Elements of Literature audiovisual resources |
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| Analyze moral and philosophical arguments, an author's ideology, or archetypal patterns as portrayed in selected work(s). | - Pose question: What is good, evil, man's place in the
world? - Define naturalism. - Lead discussion on good vs. evil. - Archetypes' definition. Honor, Integrity.
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- Read excerpts from Faust (Marlowe) and Paradise Lost (Milton). With a partner, analyze character of Satan. | - Venn diagram for two characters of Satan. - Identify character traits of an antihero on essay test.
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- Read Darwin's Origin of Species, Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Everyman (morality play). | - The Open Boat by Crane - Maggie, A Girl of the Streets - Ed Leadership, March 1998 - The Scarlet Letter - The Crucible - Faust - Paradise Lost - Comic books
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| Evaluate and synthesize essential ideas in what they read,
hear, and view.
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- Introduce concept of non-conformity. - Lecture on Emerson and the transcendentalists. - Diagram on board basic idea of transcendental philosophy.
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- Write a journal entry on what happens to non-conformists. - Analyze qualities of a self-reliant person in Emerson excerpt.
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- Create a booklet entitled Wisdom in a Nutshell
filled with Emerson's aphorisms. - Test on reading.
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- Research on other non-conformists. - Write a definition essay What is self reliance? - Read Call the Darkness Light (Lowell factory girls); report to class. |
- Excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau, using Adventures text. - Essay Standing Out and Fitting In (Literary Cavalcade).
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| Identify ways in which an author uses elements of nonfiction
to achieve purpose.
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- Introduce authors. - Lecture and hand-outs. - Show part of movie. - Importance of audience. - Examples of purpose.
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- Write journal of own childhood. Select dialogue from
reading. - Diary of a trip. - Research on Japanese internment during WWII. |
- Cause-effect essay. - Oral recitation on vivid passage. - Tests on reading.
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- Research changes in social welfare system since 1910.
Analysis paper, Black Boy. - Report on Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson, and Roots by Haley. |
- Black Boy by Wright - Elements of Literature by Holt - American Writers Series -http://www.pbs.org:80/rwbb/reachgd.html - Farewell to Manzanar - Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
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| Analyze and evaluate in poetry the use of diction, imagery, figurative language, irony, and paradox. | - Ask guiding question What makes a good poem? - Define terms. - Give examples of literal and figurative language. - Examples of diction's effect. - Play Jazz and Blues.
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- Read poems. - Collaborate in a jigsaw cooperative learning exercise to find examples of specific poetic devices. |
- Teach to their group. - Oral presentation on one poet and his/her style. - Write interpretive essay on an unfamiliar poem (in class).
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- Write a parody of Whitman, I Hear Wachusett Singing - Contrast L. Hughes I too sing America and W. Whitman's I Hear America Singing.
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- One Perfect Rose by Parker - Frost poems in America, Mending Wall, Birches - Harlem Renaissance poets in Adventures in American Literature - Walt Whitman's poems |
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| Critically review the treatment of a literary work by three different sources. | - Discuss the variety and quality of the resources on the
Internet. - Give criteria for solid sources and examples of questionable sources. - Show video (movie) of a novel, story or play. - Play audiocassette of short story. |
Go to Media Center and find three different articles relating to one work. Read original text of novel (short story or play). Read a critical essay. Use a graphic organizer on drawing conclusion. | - Student will critique each article using Tech Prep
Applied English. - Evaluation Guide Worksheet in Elements.
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- Use other sources to evaluate timeliness and reliability. - Write informative essay about evaluating Internet resources. |
- Tech Prep Applied English II, Jonker and Modestow - The Scarlet Letter (novel) and two videos, or Macbeth - Twentieth Century Views series - Elements of Literature Audiovisual Handbook
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| Compare/contrast a writer's craft with that of the visual artist. | - Distribute copies of poem. - Present Moran's painting via overhead projector. - Define tone, mood, diction. - Assign poem Mirror in Adventures text.
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- Discuss details: scene, tone, purpose in the poem and
painting. Complete worksheet comparing the two media - Sketch what the person in Mirror looks like. Draw or describe yourself 30 years in the future. |
- Write a comparison - contrast essay (500 - 1000 words) on
the two pieces. - Revise using Revision guide chart in Elements.
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- Be the artist or the person in a painting. Explain your
purpose or the situation pictured. What is going on in your mind? - What does J. Alfred Prufrock look like?
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- Elements of Literature, Holt - Audiovisual Resources - Poem The Cross of Snow by Longfellow - Painting overhead MT of the Holy Cross by Moran - Adventures in American Literature, poem Mirror by Plath
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| Explain the value of multimedia in communication (and as an
art form).
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- Bring students to Media Center to examine the art of home
pages and Web sites. Discuss visual effects. - Lecture with examples of film techniques. |
- Report on effectiveness of the home pages. Evaluate on a
scale. - Bring in ads from magazines. Oral report to class on visual and verbal appeal, purpose. |
- Students write a screen play for a short story. - Design their own Web site. Explain in writing what they expect to communicate. |
Film (video) the play they've written. | - WRHS Media Center - The Shared Heart (photojournal of gay youth) - Magazines
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| Use multimedia to demonstrate understanding of a theme or
issue related to literary work(s).
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- Spend 2-3 days in Media Center - instruct on creating slide
show. - Show clip of Henry Fonda's famous speech in Grapes of Wrath. - Play song on same character (Tom Joad). |
- Create a slide show based on the theme of a short story. - In The Grapes of Wrath, compare presentation of same theme in book, movie and song.
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- Complete chart on determining theme (Elements). - Analyze the media for consistency of theme. - Write 500-word essay on the topic or theme.
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Videotape a visit to Walden Pond. Provide narration and background music. | - Novel The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck - Film The Grapes of Wrath - Music by Rage Against the Machine - Walden by Thoreau - Zounds! - Education Leadership, Nov. 1997 - WRHS Media Center
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