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RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 4, 6 Essential Questions/Key Concepts How did the Native American culture influence our language and literature? Literature: Early American Poetry, Myths, & Historical Narratives How did early American History affect literature? Writing: Evaluative Essay, Firsthand report What is rhetoric? Goals 1, 4, 5, 6 Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles • Literacy: tone, style, narrative, audience, diction, setting, primary source, secondary source, historical narrative • Grammar: misplaced modifiers, dangling participles, modifier placement, sentence combination Historical Narratives What are: sensory details, dominant impression, and point of view? Writing: Descriptive Essay Personal Letter Titles: Of Plymouth Plantation What are the parts of a personal letter and how do I write it? Women and Children First The Interesting Narrative of the Life of • Literacy: plain style, simile, metaphor, extended metaphor, Olaudah Equiano subjective reporting, meter inverted syntax, iambic pentameter, The Examination of Sarah Good transcript, summary, bias, loaded question, persuasive writing, Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God loaded language, connotation, denotation • 1 Titles: The world on the Turtle's Back Song of the Sky Loom Hunting Song Coyote Stories The Man to Send Rain Clouds The Education of Little Tree Coyote's Eyes The Log of Christopher Columbus La Relacion The Travels of Marco Polo How did the Puritan life-style and culture influence our language? Literature: Puritan What is the writing process for a descriptive essay? Week Grammar: avoiding circular reasoning & eliminating qualifiers Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 2 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Essential Questions/Key Concepts How did the Colonial life influence our language and literature? What is the connection between the Puritan life and their literature? What is rhetoric? Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 • Literacy: allusion, propaganda, aphorism, persuasion, logical appeal, emotional appeal, rhetorical question, analogy, ethical appeal, elevated language, repetition, parallelism, paraphrase, theme contrast, anecdote, argument, context clues • Grammar: pronoun antecedent agreement & subject-verb agreement How did the colonial life-style and culture influence our language and literature? Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: Age of Reason Colonial Literature • • Literacy: foreshadowing, setting, plot, tone, satire, theme, character, stereotype, conflict, image, inversion, meter, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme scheme refrain, alliteration, assonance, consonance, idyll, allusion, extended metaphor, irony, symbols, anastrophe synecdoche, stanza, omniscient narrator, allegory, end rhyme, internal rhyme, gothic Grammar may vary according to literary selections but includes: avoiding clichés, possessives, & plurals 3 Writing: Essays Titles: Common Sense Speech to the Virginia Convention The Declaration of Independence The Declaration of the Rights of Women- P. Wheatley Letter to John Adams Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography What is an American? Literature: American Romanticism Writing: Poetry How do I write poetry? Week Titles: The Raven Thanatopsis The Chambered Nautilus Rip Van Winkle Other works by: Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant, Poe, & Irving Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 4 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Essential Questions/Key Concepts What is transcendentalism and what are the characteristics found in language and literature? What is a thesis statement and how do I construct an effective one? What are: style, syntax, and diction? What are the steps of writing a research paper? What needs to be considered when selecting a topic for research? What are the parts of an annotated bibliography? Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: Transcendentalism/Nonconformists Week 5 Writing: Research & Plagiarism Works by: Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Ghandi, ML King, Titles: Walden Civil Disobedience What are MLA and APA and when should I use each? Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 • Literacy: transcendentalism, aphorism, non-violent resistance, nature writing, tone, diction, paradox • Grammar: punctuating dialogue, combining sentences, pronounantecedent agreement How do I write poetry? What are the parts of an annotated bibliography? What are MLA and APA and when should I use them? • Literacy: anti-transcendentalism, symbolism, allegory, irony • Grammar: words frequently confused Literature: Anti-transcendentalism Writing: Research Titles: Moby Dick Barnaby the Scrivener Other works by Melville Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 6 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Essential Questions/Key Concepts What is the influence of Hawthorne on American Literature? What is the significance of this work to current American works? Why is Hawthorne such an influence on American Literature? Goals 1, 4, 5, 6 • Literacy: Anti-transcendentalism, symbolism, allegory, irony • Grammar: words frequently confused What is the influence of Hawthorne on American Literature? What is the significance of the chosen work to current American Literature? Why is Hawthorne such an influence on American Literature? What is the significance of the slave narrative to American history? Of what significance were African-American Spirituals? What insights about the Civil War do these literary works provide? • Literacy: allegory, foreshadowing, mood, style, objective, subjective, purpose • Grammar: using adjectives, adjectival phrases, and clauses Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: Anti-transcendentalism Hawthorne Week 7 Writing: Continue Research Titles: The Scarlet Letter Literature: Anti-transcendentalism Hawthorne's Short Stories Slavery and the Civil War Writing: Continue Research Titles: Dr. Heidigger's Experiment The Birthmark Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave Gettysburg Address Mary Chesnutt's Civil War Swing Low, Sweet chariot Go Down, Moses Follow the Drinking Gourd Graduation- Maya Angelou Salvation - Langston Hughes Other works by: Hawthorne, Douglass, Lincoln, & Chesnutt Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 8 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Essential Questions/Key Concepts What is the significance of slave narratives to the history of America? Of what literary significance were African American Spirituals? What insights about the Civil War do these literary works provide? Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 • Literacy: style, repetition, parallelism, point of view, objective, subjective, autobiography, stereotype, realism, naturalism • Grammar: using noun clauses in writing Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: Slavery The Civil War 9 Writing: Continue Research Writing Titles: Uncle Tom's Cabin Coming of Age in Mississippi Necessary to Protect Ourselves A Mystery of Heroism (Crane) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave What is realism and what are the characteristics of realistic writings? Literature: The Emergence of Realism How would I identify the characteristics of realism in a chosen literary text? Writing: Writing effective conclusions Titles: How would I find non-text examples of realism and where might they be The Red Badge of Courage War is Kind found? An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Nam and the Snake The Return • Literacy: style, realism, point of view, symbolism, objective, The Open Window subjective, repetition, parallelism, naturalism, tone, mood • Week Grammar: parallel structure, fragments, comma errors Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 10 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Essential Questions/Key Concepts What is a flat character, round character, and dynamic character? Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: Poetic Rebels Regionalism What is local color and what is the significance? What is stream-of-consciousness and how does it affect a story? What is the difference between direct and indirect characterization? • Literacy: free verse, catalog, repetition, slant rhyme, meter, conventional poetic form, organic poetic form, anaphora, figurative language, quatrain, personification, paradox, parody, regionalism, local color, dialect, exaggeration, epigram, cultural hero, setting • Grammar: comparative forms of modifiers, run-on sentences, possessive forms, pronoun cases Writing: Poetry (Whitman & Dickinson) Titles by Whitman: I Hear America Singing I Sit and Look Out Song of Myself Titles by Dickinson: This is my Letter to the World Hope is the thing with feathers Success is counted sweetest A narrow fellow in the grass Much Madness is divinest Sense My life closed twice before its close Because I could not stop for Death Other Works: Epigrams The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County A Wagner Matinee- Cather Letters of a Woman Homesteader Stewart The Legend of Gregorio CortezParedos Anyone lived in a pretty now townCummings Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. Weeks 11 & 12 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Essential Questions/Key Concepts What is the significance of women writers on American Literature? Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: Emergence of Women Writers Week 13 How were women writers accepted in early America? Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 • Literacy: theme, social theme, inference, conflict, internal monologue, irony • Grammar: can vary depending on text selections What is the Harlem Renaissance and what did it add to American Literature? How would I identify the characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance is a chosen literary piece? • Literacy: Harlem, sonnet, syntax, mood, tone, sound devices, thematic shift, anaphora • Grammar: MLA -Works Cited APA - Bibliography Plagiarism Works by Gilman Chopin Olsen O'Connor Welty Literature: The Harlem Renaissance Writing: Plagiarism review Titles by Hughes: I too Harlem The Weary Blues A Dream Deferred When the Negro was in Vogue My City - Johnson A Black Man Talks of Reaping Bontemps Life for My Child is Simple-Brooks Primer for Blacks-Brooks Nay Human to Another- Cullen How it Feels to be colored Me If We Must Die - McKay Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 14 & 15 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Essential Questions/Key Concepts What is the significance of The American Dream? Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles Literature: The American Dream Is the American Dream static or changing? How would I define The American Dream according to a given literature selection? • • Literacy: American dream, personification, characterization, narrative, poetry, symbols, static characters, dynamic characters Grammar: Review Titles: Chicago-Sandburg Lucinda -Masters Fiddler Jones-Matlock Richard Cory-Robinson Miniver Cheevy-Robinson Sympathy-Dunbar Winter Dreams-Fitzgerald The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck Spoon River Anthology Other Works by: Sandburg Masters Robinson Dunbar Fitzgerald Steinbeck Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. Week 16 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide SCS Goals Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Essential Questions/Key Concepts Instructional Focus/Suggested Titles What is the significance of dramatic monologue? Literature: Modernism What are the characteristics of Modernism in Literature? Writing: Review Literacy: modernism, speaker, blank verse, dialogue syntax, diction, stream-of-consciousness, imagery. • Grammar: indicative, imperative, subjunctive mood, active & passive verbs In Praise of Robert Frost- Kennedy The \End of Something-Hemingway The Love Song of J Alfred PrufrockEliot The Jilting of Granny WeatherallPorter A Clean, Well-lighted PlaceHemingway • Literacy: dramatic irony, situational irony, persona, external conflict, deduction, induction, protagonist, antagonist • Grammar: Review 17 Titles by Robert Frost: Acquainted with the Night Mending Wall Out, Out The Death of a Hired Man • What part did war play in American Literature? Week Literature: Modernism War Titles: Ambush The Things They Carried Letter from a Birmingham Jail Teen-age Wasteland Civil Disobedience Other Titles by: Wright, Plath, Sexton, Levi, Jarrell, Steinbeck, O'Brien, King, & Tyler Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings. 18 RCS English III Honors Pacing Guide Substitutions, deletions, and/or alternates may be used in lieu of listed texts. Teachers may also assign additional readings.
