Overarching Question: What Makes a Story
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Second Quarter Unit Plan English I – Ms. Spence
Overarching Questions: How do I make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in an exposito- ry text and their organizational patterns? How do writers use evidence and analysis to explain a topic? What are you willing to die for? What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me!)
Major Readings: Assorted non-fiction and expository essays Romeo and Juliet
Grammar/Vocabulary: Capitalization Direct Quotation General Punctuation
Summative Grades: Expository Cold Read Test Expository Essay Timed Writing Grammar Test Final Exam
Skills we will be working on: *Analysis of expository texts for organization, evidence, rhetorical devices, and structure. *Development of an expository essay with a focus on organization, evidence, analysis, and grammatical conventions. *Identification and purpose of character foils, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, and other literary devices in Romeo and Juliet. Dat Weekly Agenda Objectives Assessments e Expository Focus Author’s Purpose Monday – Expository Introduction; Read articles with Organizational style various organizational styles Main idea Expository Writing 10/27 Tuesday – Writing Workshop (Thesis, Topic Sentence, Thesis development Activity Evidence, Analysis) Supporting details Block Day – Writing Modelling; Rubric Subtle inferences Writing HW Discussion/Model Essays; Class Calibration Grammar Friday – Model Essay Writing / Class or Partner Essay
Expository Focus Author’s Purpose Monday – Model Essay Writing / Class or Partner Essay Organizational style Partner Essay Tuesday – Benchmark Main idea 11/3 Block Day – Benchmark Thesis development Benchmark Friday – Expository Cold Read Practice Supporting details Subtle inferences Expository Cold Grammar Read Practice Expository Focus Author’s Purpose Monday – Expository Article Organizational style Expository Cold 11/10 HW: Write an expository essay – Due Friday Main idea Read Test Tuesday – Expository Article Cold Read Supporting Details Block Day – Expository Cold Read Test Subtle Inferences Cold Read Practice Friday – Review Test Results Summary *Homework Essay Due Homework Essay **End of Progress Report Expository Focus Thesis development Monday – Benchmark Essay Feedback Supporting details Feedback Form 11/17 Tuesday – Homework Essay Group Feedback Revising Block Day – Expository Essay Timed Writing Editing Expository Essay Friday – Connotation / Denotation Focus Lesson Denotation versus Timed Writing Connotation
11/24 Enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday! Count your blessings!
Romeo and Juliet Rhyme scheme Conventions of Drama Short Answer Monday – Shakespeare Background; Prologue Personification Practice 12/1 Tuesday – Act I, Scenes 1 and 2 Character Foils Block Day – Act I, Scene 5; Act II, Scene 2 Foreshadowing Writing HW Friday – Finish Act II Author’s Purpose
Romeo and Juliet Dramatic Irony Soliloquy Writing HW Monday – Act III, Scene 1 Monologue 12/8 Tuesday – Act III, Scene 2 and 3 Conventions of drama Grammar Test Block Day – Act III, Scene 5; Summarize Act IV; Act V Character foils Friday – Grammar Test Climax HW: Socratic Seminar Prep Handout Grammar conventions **End of Progress Report *This syllabus is subject to change due to a variance in pacing / unexpected events. Students will be informed well in advance if any due dates or test days are moved.