*All Literary Works Are Suggestions; However, Teachers Should Use Their Discretion to Choose

Course: English 1 1st Nine Weeks Instructional Guide

Unit: SPEAK Estimated Time: 4 weeks (A/B block) or 2 weeks (4x4) CLE: 3001.8.3 Recognize the conventions of various literary genres and understand how they articulate the writer’s vision. CLE 3001.8.5 Know and use appropriate literary terms to derive meaning and comprehension from various literary genres.

Essential Questions: How can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life? Prerequisite Skills: 8th grade Unit Vocabulary: Novel vocab: harried, Demented, Symmetrical, Obligation, Conundrum, Oriented, Imperial, Servitude, Momentum, Vermillion, Delinquency, Oriented, Vulnerable

Elements of fiction vocab: setting, characterization, character: antagonist, protagonist, main, minor, narrator, voice, point of view: 1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient, inference, foreshadowing, flashback, flash forward Checks for State Understanding Performance Assessments Instructional Resources Connections Indicators  3001.8.8 3001.8.3 Formative: - “The Road Not Taken” Analyze the Identify and Melinda’s Speak by Robert Frost narration and analyze an Quarterly - Examples of people and point of view in author’s point Report Card Speak Power Point: anticipation actions that have given a increasingly of view (i.e., evaluation, Tree questions (Live Binder) voice to the American complex texts in first person, of Life project, people which the third person, formative Speak Quarterly Report Card graphic - “Initiation” by Sylvia narrator and third-person assessments on organizer (Live Binder) Plath point of view limited, third- elements of - Dealing with shift with person fiction Speak Tree of Live project (Live depression, guidance multiple omniscient). vocabulary and Binder) counselors can come and characters 3001.8.4 usage, visit class with acting as Identify and character Character bookmarks pdf (Live information on narrators. analyze how bookmarks, Binder) depression and the  3001.8.4 the author take a challenges of high Analyze the role reveals character and Text reading comprehension school. and function of character (i.e., tell the story assessment (Live Binder) characters what the from another (major/minor, author tells us, character’s 1st Dialect Journal Assessment (Live protagonists and what the other person point of Binder) antagonists) and characters say view, then determine ways about him or transform 1 www.writerlady.com Website of in which the her, what the paragraph of author: Laurie Halse Anderson author reveals character Melinda’s - Teacher’s Guide info those characters does, what the narration into (e.g., what the character says, 3rd person Speak movie author tells us, what the limited and 3rd Movies: Please remember that any what the other character person movie that is not PG-13 must be approved by your principal with a letter characters say thinks). omniscient. of consent from the students’ parents in about him or 3001.8.6 accordance with MNPS policy. (Do not her, what the Identify and Summative: show objectionable scenes of any character does, analyze Text reading movies pursuant to MNPS policies what the standard comprehension and procedures.) character says, literary assessment, what the elements (i.e., Dialect journal character allegory, based on “Speaking Out” by Laurie Halse thinks). paradox, characters Anderson  3001.8.17 parody, (select 5 Identify and foreshadowing, characters and analyze the use flashback). find evidence in of literary 3001.8.8 the text to elements such Determine the support your as: flash back, impact of feelings about inference, and setting on that character), foreshadowing. literary create a  3001.8.1 elements soundtrack (i.e.character.) Analyze the consisting of setting, two songs that characterization, reflect actions and narration of or decisions classic and making in contemporary Speak with short stories and lyrics, an novels. explanation of  3001.8.5 why the songs Analyze the were selected, moral dilemmas and one original in works of song with lyrics literature, as that reflect the revealed by essential characters’ question of the motivation and unit. behavior.  3001.8.7 Identify how setting and changes in setting can affect the literary elements (e.g., point of view, character) in texts.  3001.8.9 Explain the impact of the author’s choice of a particular point of view (e.g., first person, third person, third- person limited, third-person omniscient).

*All literary works are suggestions; however, teachers should use their discretion to choose works best for their students. Please use selections that complement the standards per quarter.