11th Grade Instructional Pacing

Guide
2017 2018
Links to State Documents:
High School Georgia Standards of Excellence
American Literature Curriculum Map
American Literature Guidance Documents (Unpacked
Standards)
 GSE Glossary of ELA Terms

Acknowledgments
The Bibb County School District would like to acknowledge and thank the following teachers for their participation in the 11th
grade ELA Expert Groups and selection of instructional materials, and in the development of the Bibb County School District
Pacing Guides.

Karen Brooks
Adrianna Cooper-Jones
Jarvis Denmark
Jay DeGrandis
Kimberly Hernandez
Jarred Moore
Michael Womack
 11th Grade Literature & Composition Pacing Guide
Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4
Thematic Focus: Thematic Focus: Building a Thematic Focus: The Individual Thematic Focus: An Age of
Coming to America (Collection 1) Democracy (Collection 2) and Society (Collection 3) and A Realism (Collection 5) and The
Or New Birth of Freedom (Collection Modern World (Collection 6)
Early American Writing 4)
(Holt McDougal Literature)
Literary Period Suggested:
Native American Experience
Exploration and Early Settlers
Puritan Tradition
Writers of the Revolution

Genre Focus: Novel & Short Genre Focus: Nonfiction
Stories Suggested Extended Text(s):
Suggested Extended Text(s): U.S. Constitution:
The Crucible, Arthur Miller Preamble and Bill of
Rights
The Declaration of
Independence
(both must be read in order to
complete the writing assessment)
Genre Focus: Novel & Short Genre Focus: Nonfiction
Stories
Suggested Extended Text(s):
Invisible Man, Ralph
Ellison
The Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass,
Douglass
The Scarlet Letter,
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dates: 1st 9 Weeks Dates: 2nd 9 Weeks Dates: 3rd 9 Weeks Dates: 4th 9 Weeks
Universal Screener: August 14th- Progress Assessment: Universal Screener: January 10th- Progress Assessment:
25th November 13-16, 2017 - School 19th April 2-5, 2017 - School City
Progress Assessment: City Progress Assessment: Georgia Milestones Review and Practice
September 18-21, 2017 School February 12-15, 2017 - School
City
Essential Questions: How does
immigration change American and
how does America change those
who come here?
Reading: Primary Focus: Literary
Secondary Focus: Informational
Writing Focus: 4-6 Constructed
Responses and 1-2 Extended Responses
(Constructed Response may be used as tickets
out the door as well as other means of
formative assessment for comprehension.
Students should receive feedback).
Writing Genre: Argumentative
Common Core Performance
Assessment Book: Unit 1 (Eye on Common Core Performance
Technology) Assessment Book: Unit 2
(Innovations).
Teachers should also be doing literary analysis
year round as they read various works.
Examples for modes are found in the
Common Core Performance Assessment
Book: Unit 3.
***Whenever students are
writing, they should have a copy
of the state rubric on their desks.
Each bullet should be taught in
student friendly terms to ensure
understanding of how they will be
assessed.
Writing Rubrics, Page 42
Essential Questions:
How can a large group of people
with widely different background,
beliefs, and interests work together
to form one political union?
Reading: Primary Focus:
Informational/Rhetorical Analysis
Secondary Focus: Literary (Poetry)
Writing Focus: 4-6 Constructed
Responses and 1-2 Extended Responses
(Constructed Response may be used as tickets
out the door as well as other means of
formative assessment for comprehension.
Students should receive feedback).
Writing Genre: Informational
(October-December)
Teachers should also be doing literary analysis
year round as they read various works.
Examples for modes are found in the
Common Core Performance Assessment
Book: Unit 3.
***Whenever students are
writing, they should have a copy
of the state rubric on their desks.
Each bullet should be taught in
student friendly terms to ensure
understanding of how they will be
assessed.
Writing Rubrics, Page 42
City
Essential Questions:
How can diverse voices create a
unified identity?
What must be sacrificed for
freedom?
Reading: Primary Focus: Literary
Secondary Focus: Informational
Writing Focus: 4-6 Constructed
Responses and 1-2 Extended Responses
(Constructed Response may be used as tickets out
the door as well as other means of formative
assessment for comprehension. Students should
receive feedback).
Writing Genre: Narrative
Resource Link:
Narrative Prompt with Passage
Click prompt and download. Next, find 9th grade
and download sample responses to use as a
teaching tool.
Teachers should also be doing literary analysis
year round as they read various works.
Examples for modes are found in the
Common Core Performance Assessment
Book: Unit 1 Changes.
***Whenever students are
writing, they should have a copy
of the state rubric on their desks.
Each bullet should be taught in
student friendly terms to ensure
understanding of how they will be
assessed.
Writing Rubrics, Page 42
Essential Questions:
What is reality?
What causes the loss of common
sense?
Reading: Primary Focus:
Informational
Secondary Focus: Literary (Poetry)
Writing Focus: 4-6 Constructed
Responses and 1-2 Extended Responses
(Constructed Response may be used as tickets
out the door as well as other means of
formative assessment for comprehension.
Students should receive feedback).
Writing Genre:
Mixed Practice on all genres.
(Core Performance Assessment
Book: Unit 4-Mixed Practice)
Teachers should also be doing literary analysis
year round as they read various works.
Examples for modes are found in the
Common Core Performance Assessment
Book: Unit 1 Changes.
***Whenever students are
writing, they should have a copy
of the state rubric on their desks.
Each bullet should be taught in
student friendly terms to ensure
understanding of how they will be
assessed.
Writing Rubrics, Page 42
Skills Focus: Literary Analysis
Standards:
Focus- Literary
1 extended text from American
literature
7 thematically connected short
texts:
4 short texts from American
literature
3 short informational texts
including primary and secondary
source documents from U.S. and
world history
ELAGSE11-12 RL1-10
ELAGSE11-12 RI 1-10
Highlighted standards
will be on progress
assessments. All
standards are expected
to be taught!
Focus for this grading period:
ELAGSE11-12RL1 Cite strong and
thorough textual evidence to
support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences figurative and connotative
drawn from the text, including
determining where the text leaves specific word choices on meaning drawn from the text, including
matters uncertain.
Skills Focus: Rhetorical Analysis
Standards:
Focus- Informational
1 extended text from American
literature
7 thematically connected short
texts:
4 short texts from American
literature
3 short informational texts
including primary and secondary
source documents from U.S. and
world history
ELAGSE11-12 RL1-10
ELAGSE11-12 RI 1-10
Highlighted standards
will be on progress
assessments. All
standards are expected
to be taught!
Focus for this grading period:
ELAGSE11-12RL4 Determine the
meaning of words and phrases as
they are used in the text, including thorough textual evidence to
meanings; analyze the impact of
and tone, including words with
Skills Focus: Rhetorical Analysis
Standards:
Focus- Informational &
Literary
1 extended text from American
literature
7 thematically connected short
texts:
4 short texts from American
literature
3 short informational texts
including primary and secondary
source documents from U.S. and
world history
ELAGSE11-12 RL1-10
ELAGSE11-12 RI 1-10
Highlighted standards
will be on progress
assessments. All
standards are expected
to be taught!
Focus for this grading period:
ELAGSE11-12RL1 Cite strong and
support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences
determining where the text leaves
Skills Focus: Literary Analysis
Standards:
Focus- Literary
1 extended text from American
literature
7 thematically connected short
texts:
4 short texts from American
literature
3 short informational texts
including primary and secondary
source documents from U.S. and
world history
ELAGSE11-12 RL1-10
ELAGSE11-12 RI 1-10
Review of all standards
before the GA Milestones
Use the results from
formative assessments and
progress assessments to
determine in which
standards to focus to develop
a plan for effective
remediation and
interventions for students to
be successful on the Georgia
Milestones. This can be done
by utilizing Collection 5 and
ELAGSE11-12RL2 Determine two
or more themes or central ideas of
text and analyze their
development over the course of
the text, including how they
interact and build on one another
to produce a complex account;
provide an objective summary of
the text.
ELAGSE11-12RL3 Analyze the
impact of the authors choices
regarding how to develop and
relate elements of a story or
drama (e.g., where a story is set,
how the action is ordered, how
the characters are introduced and
developed).
ELAGSE11-12RL4 Determine the
meaning of words and phrases as
they are used in the text, including
figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the impact of
specific word choices on meaning
and tone, including words with
multiple meanings or language
that is particularly fresh, engaging,
or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare
as well as other authors.)
ELAGSE11-12RL5 Analyze how an
authors choices concerning how
to structure specific parts of a text
(e.g., the choice of where to begin
or end a story, the choice to
provide a comedic or tragic
resolution) contribute to its overall
structure and meaning as well as
multiple meanings or language
that is particularly fresh, engaging,
or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare
as well as other authors.)
ELAGSE11-12RL5 Analyze how an
authors choices concerning how
to structure specific parts of a text
(e.g., the choice of where to begin
or end a story, the choice to
provide a comedic or tragic
resolution) contribute to its overall
structure and meaning as well as
its aesthetic impact.
ELAGSE11-12RL6 Analyze a case in
which grasping point of view
requires distinguishing what is
directly stated in a text from what
is really meant (e.g., satire,
sarcasm, irony, or
understatement).
ELAGSE11-12RL9 Demonstrate
knowledge of eighteenth-,
nineteenth- and early twentieth-
century foundational works (of
American Literature, British
Georgia Literature, World
Literature, or Multicultural
Literature), including how two or
more texts from the same period
treat similar themes or topics.
ELAGSE11-12RI1 Cite strong and
thorough textual evidence to
support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text, including
determining where the text leaves
matters uncertain. 6.
ELAGSE11-12RL2 Determine two
or more themes or central ideas of
text and analyze their
development over the course of
the text, including how they
interact and build on one another
to produce a complex account;
provide an objective summary of
the text.
ELAGSE11-12RL3 Analyze the
impact of the authors choices
regarding how to develop and
relate elements of a story or
drama (e.g., where a story is set,
how the action is ordered, how
the characters are introduced and
developed). ELAGSE11-12RL5
Analyze how an authors choices
concerning how to structure
specific parts of a text (e.g., the
choice of where to begin or end a
story, the choice to provide a
comedic or tragic resolution)
contribute to its overall structure
and meaning as well as its
aesthetic impact.
ELAGSE11-12RL6 Analyze a case in
which grasping point of view
requires distinguishing what is
directly stated in a text from what
is really meant (e.g., satire,
sarcasm, irony, or
understatement).
ELAGSE11-12RL7 Analyze multiple
interpretations of a story, drama,
its aesthetic impact.
ELAGSE11-12RL9 Demonstrate
knowledge of eighteenth-,
nineteenth- and early twentieth-
century foundational works (of
American Literature, British
Georgia Literature, World
Literature, or Multicultural
Literature), including how two or
more texts from the same period
treat similar themes or topics.
ELAGSE11-12RI1 Cite strong and
thorough textual evidence to
support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text, including
determining where the text leaves
matters uncertain.
ELAGSE11-12RI2 Determine two
or more central ideas of a text and
analyze their development over
the course of the text, including
how they interact and build on
one another to provide a complex
analysis; provide an objective
summary of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RI3 Analyze a
complex set of ideas or sequence
of events and explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the
course of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RI4 Determine the
meaning of words and phrases as
they are used in a text, including
figurative, connotative, and
matters uncertain.
ELAGSE11-12RI2 Determine two
or more central ideas of a text and
analyze their development over
the course of the text, including
how they interact and build on
one another to provide a complex
analysis; provide an objective
summary of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RI3 Analyze a
complex set of ideas or sequence
of events and explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the
course of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RI5 Analyze and
evaluate the effectiveness of the
structure an author uses in his or
her exposition or argument,
including whether the structure
makes points clear, convincing,
and engaging.
ELAGSE11-12RI6 Determine an
authors point of view or purpose
in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing
how style and content contribute
to the power, persuasiveness, or
beauty of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RI8 Delineate and
evaluate the reasoning in seminal
U.S. texts, including the
application of constitutional
principles and use of legal
reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme
Court majority opinions and
or poem (e.g., recorded or live
production of a play or recorded
novel or poetry), evaluating how
each version interprets the source
text. (Include at least one play by
Shakespeare as well as one play by
an American dramatist.)
ELAGSE11-12RL9 Demonstrate
knowledge of eighteenth-,
nineteenth- and early twentieth-
century foundational works (of
American Literature, British
Literature, World Literature, or
Multicultural Literature), including
how two or more texts from the
same period treat similar themes
or topics.
ELAGSE11-12RI7 Integrate and
evaluate multiple sources of
information presented indifferent
media or formats (e.g., visually,
quantitatively) as well as in words
in order to address a question or
solve a problem.
ELAGSE11-12RI8 Delineate and
evaluate the reasoning in seminal
U.S. texts, including the
application of constitutional
principles and use of legal
reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme
Court majority opinions and
dissents) and the premises,
purposes, and arguments in works
of public advocacy (e.g., The
Federalist, presidential addresses.)
ELAGSE11-12RI9 Analyze
technical meanings; analyze how
an author uses and refines the
meaning of a key term or terms
over the course of a text (e.g.,
how Madison defines faction in
Federalist No. 10). ELAGSE11-
12RI5 Analyze and evaluate the
effectiveness of the structure an
author uses in his or her
exposition or argument, including
whether the structure makes
points clear, convincing, and
engaging. ELAGSE11-12RI6
Determine an authors point of
view or purpose in a text in which
the rhetoric is particularly
effective, analyzing how style and
content contribute to the power,
persuasiveness, or beauty of the
text.
ELAGSE11-12W1 Write arguments
to support claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or texts, using
valid reasoning and relevant and
sufficient evidence.
a. Introduce precise,
knowledgeable claim(s), establish
the significance of the claim(s),
distinguish the claim(s) from
alternate or opposing claims, and
create an organization that
logically sequences claim(s),
counterclaims, reasons, and
evidence.
b. Develop claim(s) and
counterclaims fairly and
dissents) and the premises, foundational U.S. documents of
purposes, and arguments in works historical and literary significance
of public advocacy (e.g., The (including The Declaration of
Federalist, presidential addresses.)Independence, the Preamble to
the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
ELAGSE11-12W2 and Lincolns Second Inaugural
Write informative/explanatory Address) for their themes,
texts to examine and convey purposes, and rhetorical features.
complex ideas, concepts, and For British Literature, American
information clearly and accurately Literature, and Multicultural
through the effective selection, Literature use comparable
organization, and analysis of documents of historical
content. significance.
a. Introduce a topic; organize ELAGSE11-12W3 Write narratives
complex ideas, concepts, and to develop real or imagined
information so that each new experiences or events using
element builds on that which effective technique, well-chosen
precedes it to create a unified details, and well-structured event
whole; include formatting (e.g., sequences.
headings), graphics (e.g., figures, a. Engage and orient the reader by
tables), and multimedia when setting out a problem, situation, or
useful to aiding comprehension. b. observation and its significance,
Develop the topic thoroughly by establishing one or multiple
selecting the most significant and point(s) of view, and introducing a
relevant facts, extended narrator and/or characters; create
definitions, concrete details, a smooth progression of
quotations, or other information experiences or events. b. Use
and examples appropriate to the narrative techniques, such as
audiences knowledge of the topic. dialogue, pacing, description,
c. Use appropriate and varied reflection, and multiple plot lines,
transitions and syntax to link the to develop experiences, events,
major sections of the text, create and/or characters.
cohesion, and clarify the c. Use a variety of techniques to
relationships among complex sequence events so that they build
ideas and concepts. on one another to create a
d. Use precise language, domain- coherent whole and build toward
thoroughly, supplying the most
relevant evidence for each while
pointing out the strengths and
limitations of both in a manner
that anticipates the audiences
knowledge level, concerns, values,
and possible biases. c. Use words,
phrases, and clauses as well as
varied syntax to link the major
sections of the text, create
cohesion, and clarify the
relationships between claim(s)
and reasons, between reasons and
evidence, and between claim(s)
and counterclaims.
d. Establish and maintain a formal
style and objective tone while
attending to the norms and
conventions of the discipline in
which they are writing.
e. Provide a concluding statement
or section that follows from and
supports the argument presented.
ELAGSE11-12L2 Demonstrate
command of the conventions of
Standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when
writing. a. Observe hyphenation
conventions. b. Spell correctly. c.
Produce legible work that shows
accurate spelling and correct use
of the conventions of punctuation
and capitalization.
ELAGSE11-12L3 Apply knowledge
of language to understand how
language functions in different
specific vocabulary, and
techniques such as metaphor,
simile, and analogy to manage the
complexity of the topic.
e. Establish and maintain a formal
style and objective tone while
attending to the norms and
conventions of the discipline in
which they are writing. f. Provide a
concluding statement or section
that follows from and supports the
information or explanation
presented (e.g., articulating
implications or the significance of
the topic).
ELAGSE11-12L1 Demonstrate
command of the conventions of
Standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking. a.
Apply the understanding that
usage is a matter of convention,
can change over time, and is
sometimes contested.
b. Resolve issues of complex or
contested usage, consulting
references (e.g., Merriam-
Websters Dictionary of English
Usage, Garners Modern American
English) as needed.
ELAGSE11-12L4 Determine or
clarify the meaning of unknown
and multiple-meaning words and
phrases based on grades 11-12
reading and content, choosing
flexibly from a range of strategies.
a. Use context (e.g., the overall
a particular tone and outcome
(e.g., a sense of mystery,
suspense, growth, or resolution).
d. Use precise words and phrases,
telling details, and sensory
language to convey a vivid picture
of the experiences, events,
setting, and/or characters.
e. Provide a conclusion that
follows from and reflects on what
is experienced, observed, or
resolved over the course of the
narrative.
ELAGSE11-12L5 Demonstrate
understanding of figurative
language, word relationships, and
nuances in word meanings. a.
Interpret figures of speech (e.g.,
hyperbole, paradox) in context
and analyze their role in the text.
b. Analyze nuances in the meaning
of words with similar denotations.
ELAGSE11-12L6 Acquire and use
accurately general academic and
domain-specific words and
phrases, sufficient for reading,
writing, speaking, and listening at
the college and career readiness
level; demonstrate independence
in gathering vocabulary
knowledge when considering a
word or phrase important to
comprehension or expression.
contexts, to make effective choices
for meaning or style, and to
comprehend more fully when
reading or listening. a. Vary syntax
for effect, consulting references
(e.g., Tuftes Artful Sentences) for
guidance as needed; apply an
understanding of syntax to the
study of complex texts when
reading.
meaning of a sentence, paragraph,
or text; a words position or
function in a sentence) as a clue to
the meaning of a word or phrase.
b. Identify and correctly use
patterns of word changes that
indicate different meanings or
parts of speech (e.g., conceive,
conception, conceivable).
c. Consult general and specialized
reference materials (e.g.,
dictionaries, glossaries,
thesauruses), both print and
digital, to find the pronunciation
of a word or determine or clarify
its precise meaning, its part of
speech, or its etymology, or its
standard usage. d. Verify the
preliminary determination of the
meaning of a word or phrase (e.g.,
by checking the inferred meaning
in context or in a dictionary).

Supporting Standards: Supporting Standards: Supporting Standards: Supporting Standards:

RL and RI 1 should be taught RL and RI 1 should be taught RL and RI 1 should be taught RL and RI 1 should be taught
during the first nine weeks and during the first nine weeks and during the first nine weeks and during the first nine weeks and
should support all other reading should support all other reading should support all other reading should support all other reading
standards. standards. standards. standards.

(For example, when teaching RL2,
students should be expected to
determine a theme and analyze its
development by citing explicit and
inferential textual evidence to
support it.
(For example, when teaching RL2,
students should be expected to
determine a theme and analyze its
development by citing explicit and
inferential textual evidence to
support it.
(For example, when teaching RL2,
students should be expected to
determine a theme and analyze its
development by citing explicit and
inferential textual evidence to
support it.
(For example, when teaching RL2,
students should be expected to
determine a theme and analyze its
development by citing explicit and
inferential textual evidence to
support it.
The goal of all standards is to The goal of all standards is to The goal of all standards is to The goal of all standards is to
achieve RL10, so students will be achieve RL10, so students will be achieve RL10, so students will be achieve RL10, so students will be
reading and comprehending on reading and comprehending on reading and comprehending on reading and comprehending on
grade level by the end of the year. grade level by the end of the year. grade level by the end of the year. grade level by the end of the year.

Grammar lessons should be Grammar lessons should be Grammar lessons should be Grammar lessons should be
developed based on errors that developed based on errors that developed based on errors that developed based on errors that
are found in the classs writing. are found in the classs writing. are found in the classs writing. are found in the classs writing.

ELAGSE11-12W4, 5, and 6 ELAGSE11-12W4, 5, and 6 ELAGSE11-12W4, 5, and 6 ELAGSE11-12W4, 5, and 6

(Production and Distribution of
Writing) should be used every
nine weeks to teach writing.
Speaking and Listening Standards
are expected to be taught every
nine weeks.
(Production and Distribution of
Writing) should be used every
nine weeks to teach writing.
Speaking and Listening Standards
are expected to be taught every
nine weeks.
(Production and Distribution of
Writing) should be used every
nine weeks to teach writing.
Speaking and Listening Standards
are expected to be taught every
nine weeks.
(Production and Distribution of
Writing) should be used every
nine weeks to teach writing.
Speaking and Listening Standards
are expected to be taught every
nine weeks.

OR

Teacher can assign a comparable

literary analysis essay based on the
chosen texts for this unit.

According to the state curriculum map, ELA teachers should teach all
standards every 9 weeks. For the purpose of ensuring the standards are
strategically taught, each 9 weeks this pacing guide many standards are not
listed as focus standards every 9 weeks on the pacing guide has standards that
are focused standards. Although other standards may be applicable to the
many pieces and tasks, any progress assessments will be taken from the focus
standards.