ADV Freshmen Scope/Sequence and Curriculum Map

Month Essential Questions Content Skills/Common Core Assessments

Why is it important to read Dr. Seuss Vocab 1 Quizzes poetry? What can I learn from Shel Silverstein Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects it? How does poetry relate to Wordsworth Connecting to personal life Presentations for Peer to Peer August my life? Where can I find it Emily Dickinson Using textual evidence to Learning (2 weeks) other than in my textbook? Tupac support analysis Poem analysis Poetry Various other writers (list of Basic Grammar poems attached) **ADV reads some of the same poems as regular, but goes deeper in analysis What can poetry teach me Vocab 2-3 Quizzes about history? How do I write Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects my own poetry? What can I Eulogy’s Finding deeper meaning in Video project September show people through writing Langston Hughes seemingly simple text Poem analysis my own poetry? Comparing two poems together Basic Grammar Poetry (List of poems attached)

What are the parts of a short The Birds Vocab 4-5 Quizzes story? How do I know the Rules of the Game Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects difference between a short Most Dangerous Game Script writing Collaboration with peers on October story and other literature? Necklace creating own short story Short Stories What can I learn from reading Gift of the Magi Creating a survival guide historical fiction?

How do writers develop Nonfiction – Mummies Vocab 6 Quizzes characters within a short story? Cask of Amontillado Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects How do writers keep readers The Interlopers Connecting to historical context Writing own narrative November engaged? How does point of Connecting text to text Creative writing Short Stories/ view affect the POE bio video (A&E) Short story cube writing 1984 meaning/reliability of a story? How does the author’s 1984 background affect a story?

What does it mean to be an 1984 Vocab 7-8 Project individual? How does society Critical Thinking/Questioning Compare with today’s shape our individuality? What North Korea and its current governments around the world December role does the government play state of government Quizzes (2 weeks) in our lives? What role should Writing opinion pieces 1984 the government play? 10 People Erased from History article (and various other articles)

ADV Freshmen Scope/Sequence and Curriculum Map

Month Essential Questions Content Skills/Common Core Assessments

Why is it important to read Night/Angel of Death Vocab 9-10 Quizzes autobiographies and memoirs? Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects Why is it important to learn Connecting to historical context Presentations for Peer to Peer January about history through the eyes Connecting novel to novel Learning WWII, Holocaust of literature? What can we learn Research from reading nonfiction texts?

Same questions as above for Night/Angel of Death Vocab 11-12 Quizzes first two weeks. Then moving Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects February towards: What role does fate Midsummer Night’s Dream Script writing Presentations for Peer to Peer Holocaust/ play in my life? How does my learning fate affect others? Is clear Acting out scenes from drama Midsummer Night’s communication important to Dream us? Why?

What role does fate play in life? Vocab 13-14 Quizzes How does it affect me and those Midsummer Night’s Dream Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects March around me? How might Script writing Scene videos technology have helped these Updated renditions of the story Midsummer Night’s star crossed lovers? (graphic novels, videos, etc) Dream

What is Greek Mythology? What - original text Vocab 15 Quizzes role does it play in our lives Percy Jackson and the Sea of Critical Thinking/Questioning Projects today (if any)? What other texts Monsters Connecting to historical context Research assignment on Greek April have I read with Greek Oh Brother Where Art Thou Connecting novel to novel God/Goddess Greek Mythology Mythology intertwined in Presentations The Odyssey them?

What does it mean to go on a Odyssey Vocab review Project journey? What is an ‘Odyssey’? Odyssey (kids version) Critical Thinking/Questioning Bloom Ball What is an epic? How are epics Odyssey Graphic Novel Connecting novel to novel Writing assignment May different from novels? How is Yearbook Project the Odyssey related to modern Various interpretive drawings The Odyssey times? based on textual descriptions

Texts, Stories, and Novels Covered: Poems: ADV Freshmen Scope/Sequence and Curriculum Map

Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Suess **Hope by Emily Dickinson **I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Short Stories: **The Birds Where I’m From by ??? **Masque of the Red Death ** by Edgar Allan Poe The Lottery **The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe **Cask of Amontillado (soph text) Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel **Monkey’s Paw (soph text) Novels/Drama: Silverstein **The Necklace **Romeo and Juliet Cloony the Clown by Shel Silverstein **The Gift of the Magi Gnomeo and Juliet (movie) One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein **The Checkouts Midsummer Night’s Dream The Rose that Grew from Concrete by **The Interlopers 1984 TuPac Shakir **The Secret Life of Walter Mitty I Know What You Did Last Summer ** by Lewis Carroll **The Most Dangerous Game Lord of the Flies **Dream Deferred by Langston **The Scarlet Ibis Surviving the Angel of Death Hughes The Lady, or the Tiger Night The Abandoned Farmhouse by Ted Cinderella (Grimm) The Book Thief Kooser Cinderella (Disney) Between Shades of Grey Deserted Farm by ??? The Golden Sandal (Middle Eastern Diary of Anne Frank Metaphors by Cinderella) Number the Stars Terrorist Poem by Finale Sootface (Native American **The Odyssey (parts 1-3) The Queen by Pablo Neruda Cinderella) Richard Cory by Edward Arlington Egyptian Cinderella **Indicates text that is in the Robinson Ella Enchanted + movie version freshmen or sophomore textbook Odysseus’s Decision by Louise Gluck Rumpelstiltskin by Anne Sexton **indicates advanced class only