January

Monday

30

Tuesday

31

Wednesda
y

2015
Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

10

11

12

17

18

19

25

26

Winter Break No Classes

6

Classes
Resume

Beowulf

Unit 4: Epic
Poem:

Reading log/Comprehension check

Frontload
13

14

Beowulf

15

16

Epic Hero Analysis

Beowulf
Movie

24

Reading log/
Comprehension check

20

21

22

MLK
Day- No
Classes

Beowulf
movie

Late Start-

23

27

28

Unit 5: Short
Fiction
Stories/
Writers
work shop

A Rose for Emily

Comprehension Check

Comprehension Check

Beowulf Essay
Rubric

29

by William Faulkner

Notes:
Unit 4: Epic Poem
Beowulf

30

Beowulf
Essay/
Portfolio
Due

31

To Build a Fire by
Jack London

Standards:
Reading:
- 11-12.RL.1
- 11-12.RL.5
Writing:
-11-12.W.1
Themes:
-Supernatural
-Honor
-Power
*Essential questions will be centered on these themes
Literacy Skills:
-Annotation
-Underling/Highlighting
Assessments:
-Short Comprehension Checks (8 True False, 2 short answer)
-Reading Log
-Essay
-Unit Portfolio

February
Monday

Tuesday

Wednesda
y

2015
Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

27

28

29

30

31

15

16

22

23

28

The Lottery by
Shirley Jackson

"Harrison Bergeron"
by Kurt Vonnegut

Comprehension check

Comprehension check

10

11

Short
Story

12

Short Story Rough

Draft

13

14

Writers Workshop
(Peer editing)

Concept
Map

17

18

Preside
-nts
Day

Late Start

24

25

Unit 6:
Short NonFiction
/Narrative

Truman Capote-In Cold Blood

Writers
Workshop
(Peer
Editing)

19

20

*Story Due
Short 3 minute movie
trailer for assigned
short story read in
class

26

27

21
*Trailer
and
Portfolio
Due

Reading Log/ Comprehension Check

Notes:
Unit 5: Short Fiction Stories/Writers Workshop
William Faulkner
- A Rose for Emily

Jack London
-To Build a Fire
Shirley Jackson
- The Lottery
Kurt Vonnegut
-Harrison Bergeron
Standards:
Reading:
- 11-12.RI.6
- 11-12.RL.5
Writing:
- 11-12.W.3
Themes:
-Survival
-Companionship
-Death
-Society
*Essential questions will be centered on these themes
Literacy Skills:
-Writers workshop/Peer editing
-Concept map
Assessments:
-Short Comprehension Checks (8 True False, 2 short answer)
-Peer Edits
-Story
-Unit Portfolio

March
Monday

Tuesday

2015
Wednesda
y

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

24

25

26

27

28

15

16

21

22

23

28

29

30

James B. Stewart: "The Real

Heroes are Dead" (New Yorker
Article)

Tom Junod: The

Falling Man
Comprehension check

Comprehension Check

10
Tom Junod:
The Falling
Man
Comprehens
ion check

17

11

12

David Grann's "Trial

By Fire"
Comprehension check

18

19

13

14

Atul Gawande"Letting Go"

Comprehension check

20

Spring Break

24

25

26

27

Late Start

Brain Storming/
Concept map

Writing a Narrative
Comprehension Check

31

Cesar
Chavez
Day

Notes:
Unit 6: Short Non-Fiction/Narrative

Truman Capote
-In Cold Blood
James B. Stewart
-The Real Heroes are Dead
Tom Junod
-The Falling Man
David Grann's
-Trial By Fire
Atul Gawande
-Letting Go
Standards:
Reading:
- 11-12.RI.1
- 11-12.RL.3
Writing:
- 11-12.W.3
-11-12.W.10
Themes:
-Death
-Justice
*Essential questions will be centered on these themes
Literacy Skills:
-Writers workshop/Peer editing
-Concept map
-Narrative
Assessments:
-Short Comprehension Checks (8 True False, 2 short answer)

-Peer Edits
-Story
-Unit Portfolio

April
Monday

31

2015

Tuesday

Wednesda
y

Rough Draft

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

12

13

End of Third
Term
Peer Workshop

10

11

Peer
Workshop

*Working in Non-Fiction
narrative

Final
Draft/
Portfolio
Due

14

15

18

19

20

24

25

26

27

10

11

16

17

AzMERIT Testing

21

22

23

AzMERIT Testing

28

29

30

Unit 7:
Novel:

And Then
There Were
None by

Chapter 3

Front
loading
Clue Game

Agatha
Christie

Notes:

Chapter 1-2

May
Monday

28

Tuesday

29

2015
Wednesd
ay

30

Thursday

Friday

Chapter 4

Chapters 5-6

Saturday

Sunday

10

11

17

18

24

25

*Reading
over
weekend

Chapters 7-8

12

Chapters 9-10

13

14

Chapters 13-14

9
Chapters 1112 *Reading
over
weekend

15

16

Chapters 15-16/ Epilogue

Create

Essay Explained

Mystery
game

Rubric Given

*Work on
Essay

19

20

*Work on
Mystery
Game

21

Senior Exams

22
*Work on
essay

23

*Essay/
Portfolio
Due

End of
Fourth
Term

*Work on
Essay

Mystery Game
Presentations

26

27

28

29

30

31

Notes:
Unit 7: Novel

Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Standards:
Reading:
- 11-12.RI.1
- 11-12.RL.6
Writing:
- 11-12.W.2
-11-12.W.4
Themes:
-Mystery
-Justice
*Essential questions will be centered on these themes
Literacy Skills:
-Sequence of events chart
- Annotation
- Note taking /highlighting
-Summarization
Assessments:
-Short Comprehension Checks (8 True False, 2 short answer)
-Peer Edits
-Mystery Game
-Essay
-Unit Portfolio