Ms.

Galavizs Junior English Curriculum

*Adapted from Tricia Parkers I have homework blog

Date
Topic
QUARTER 1- Critical
First-day questionnaire; review summer
Reading/Rhetorical Analysis
assignments (In Cold Blood, Mountains
08/11
Beyond Mountains)
08/12-08/18 In Cold Blood

8/19-8/22 Mountains Beyond Mountains

8/25-8/30 Introduction to Rhetoric

9/2-9/6 Analyzing Style and Talking

with the Text

In Cold Blood multiple-choice test

(open-book)
New York Times Book Review:
One Night on a Kansas Farm
In Cold Blood Discussion
Questions
In Cold Blood Timed Writing
Prayer for the Man Who
Mugged my Father poem
NYT Article: Greg Ousley Is Sorry
For Killing His Parents. Is that
Enough?
Rhetorical analysis worksheet
(SOAPS)
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Timed Writing
Enrichment poem that focus on
the theme
Rhetorical analysis worksheet
"King Coal: Reigning in China"
Rhetorical analysis chart
Too Much Baby close read
(annotate)
Watch George W. Bushs 9/11
Speech
Logos discussion
Vocabulary Flashcards 1-5/quiz
I want a Wife close read
(annotate/rhetoric)
The Box Man close read
(annotate/diction, concrete
details, syntax)
Chapter activities
Essay #1 Personal Connotation
(~500 words)
Denotation/Connotation exercise
Vocabulary flashcards 6-10/quiz

9/9-9/23 Close Reading

QUARTER 2- Argumentation
9/24-10/13 The Crucible

10/14-11/21 Argumentative Writing

THANKSGIVING BREAK 11/28 and 11/29

Peer editing
Anne Lamotts on first drafts
article
Orwell and Dickens Manuscripts
Sample Close Analysis Essay
Santa Ana Winds (annotation
example)
The Death of the Moth (close
reading graphic organizer)
Pink Flamingos (10 level 3
questions)
The Company Man (concrete &
abstract exercise)
Vocabulary 11-15
For the Falling Man discussion
Enrichment poem about a
difficult choice
Rocks With Wings film rhetorical
analysis timed writing
Arthur Miller Obituary discussion
questions
Why I Wrote The Crucible
(highlight intriguing passage and
defend)
The Crucible timed writing
The Crucible study guide
questions
Chapter reading responses
Formal Essay #2: College
Application Essay (500-650
words)
Tavi Gevinson TED Talk
Disney Princess Effect (analysis
of rhetorical and argument)
Style exercises
How to Say Nothing in 500
Words journal prompt
Classical Oration, Rogerian,
Toulmin charts
Shouting Across the Divide:
America, The Ad Campaign
journal prompt
I know Why the Caged Bird
Cannot Read

This is Water
Argument Timed Writing
Mike Rowe TED Talk

QUARTER 3- Argumentation
cond/Persuasion/Cultural studies
12/1-1/7 The Scarlet Letter
Does a societys definition of sin
influence/affect the individual?

WINTER BREAK

1/8-1/14 Front loading for project

The Scarlet Letter quiz

The Scarlet Letter multiple choice
test
Character analysis chart
Chapter summaries/Shmoop
presentation
Lincolns Second Inaugural
Address (compare/contrast)
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Chapter discussion questions
The Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave
Rhetoric and style questions
William Lloyd Garrison biography
The Oughtness of Life
Fredrick Douglas Timelines
An Introduction to the Slave
Narrative (3 astounding
observations)
To My Old Master letter (reflect
on 3 lines)
A Letter from Jackie Robinson:
Civil Rights Advocate
Fredrick Douglas poem

1/15-1/16 Fredrick Douglas Sidewalk

Chalk Project

TWO favorite quotes from the Narrative

AND, for extra credit, a complementary
quote from MLK's Letter from
Birmingham Jail. Carefully copy your
quotes on an index card. You'll be
turning them in for points.
Illustrate your quotes with provided
chalk on any sidewalk on campus (NOT
THE TENNIS COURT)

1/20-1/30 Cultural Study cond- Poetry

Text teacher picture of your finished

chalk art!
Let America Be America Again
Learning to Love America
"Preface to a Twenty Volume

2/2-3/6 The Art of Persuasion

3/9-3/20 Grapes of Wrath

SPRING BREAK 3/16-3/20

QUARTER 4- Synthesis

Suicide Note"
"Fix"
"Because it looked hotter that
way"
"Lighthead's Guide to the
Galaxy"
"The Blue Seuss"
"We Real Cool"
"Future Talk"
"The Future"
NPR Jimmy Santiago Baca, From
Prison To Poetry
NPR MacArthur Fellow Terrance
Hayes: Poems Are Music,
Language Our Instrument
Annotations and journal prompts
Supreme Court Decisions: Dredd
Scott V Sanford/Riley V California
Cause/effect essay
Essay #3 Cause/Effect essay
Emiliano Salinas TED talk
Peter Attia TED talk
Is It Immoral To Watch the
Superbowl?
Chapter activities, including
Effective/Ineffective rhetoric,
Direct, Precise and Active Verbs
Shakespeare Behind Bars
rhetoric analysis
Prison research narrative
Cause/effect presentations
Intercalary chapter analysis
How structure and (philosophical)
voice work together
Why Every Government Should
Keep and Empty Seat for a
Philosopher King
What Keeps you Going? Art
project

Grapes of Wrath Contd

3/23-4/10

Grapes of Wrath multiple choice

test
Grapes of Wrath timed writing
Enrichment poems (share aloud)

AZ MERIT TESTING
4/14/4/16
04/17-5/8 Synthesis

5/11-5/22 Drama- Hamlet

5/25-5/29 Hamlet Project Presentations

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL 5/29

Follow a Columnist Culminating

Project (character
analysis/synthesis of info)
The Iceberg Principle
Hills like White Elephants
Jury Duty
Whats Not There Reflection
Essay
Steven Pinker and Rebecca
Goldstein TED talk
Shooting an Elephant Socratic
seminar
The Meaning of a Word
If Black Language isnt a
Language
Politics and the English
Language
Essay #4 Synthesis Essay
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead
NYT film review
Let Be: An Answer to Hamlets
Question
The Long Goodbye: Hamlets
Not Depressed. Hes Grieving
My Shakespeare
Benjamin Zander TED Talk
Memorize/recite a monologue
(dress as character/get into
character)
Put on a puppet show of a scene
Rewrite a scene