English Year-Long Plan

ELA Curriculum Map

Week	Content/Final Product
1: 8/20 (M-F)	Learn about each other, build the classroom community. Go over the year’s topics and units.
2: 8/27 (M-F)	Learn about rules and procedures of the classroom and of a writing/reading workshop.  Practice them.
3: 9/3 (T-F)	Writing Portfolios:  What is expected/due at the end of every quarter and the end of the year. Procedures:  Reading journals, check out Mrs. Martin’s books, spelling homework, writing homework. Twelfth Night Language Mini Lesson:  What are conventions, what do they do, why do we need them? Spelling:  absence, accommodate, analysis, attendance, believe Vocabulary:  aequus What is genre?
4:  9/10 (M-F)	Twelfth Night 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Parentheses Spelling:  bureau, capitol, colonel, committee, correspondence Vocabulary:  ago/acta
5: 9/17 (M-F)	Twelfth Night 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Hyphens Spelling:  counterfeit, courageous, curiosity, defendant, dessert Vocabulary:  anthropos, ars Poem:  Sonnet 18 Shakespeare
6:  9/24 (M-F)	Twelfth Night 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Capitalization Spelling:  desperate, dissatisfied, extraordinary, fascinating, foreign Vocabulary:  brevis, canto Polonius’s speech from Hamlet, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be…”
7:  10/1 (M-F)	Twelfth Night 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Dashes Spelling: test Vocabulary:  Test Poem: Lucy Gray, My Heart Leaps up
8:  10/8 (M-F)	Twelfth Night 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Colons Spelling: lightning, maintenance, mileage, necessary, occurrence Vocabulary:  caput, clino Poem:  Ozymandias Final Product: Choose your own project—1. Perform a scene from the play.  2.  Make a comic book of the play.  3.  Create a PPT about Shakespeare and/or the play.  Present for the class.  4.  Re-write the story to take place during the 21st century.  Present your project to your group.
Fall Break 9: 10/22 (M-F) 1st Quarter Ends 26th	Short Stories Intro 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  italics Spelling: permanence, physician, prairie, sergeant, souvenir Vocabulary:  cognito, copia Poem:  How they brought the news from Ghent to Aix
10:  10/29 (M-F) 2nd Quarter Begins	SS: “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  apostrophes Spelling:  straight, technique, temporary, vacuum, whether Vocabulary:  credo, culpa, dominus Poem:  I dwell in possibility
11:  11/5 (M-Th) PT Conference 7th, 8th, 1 hour early release. Teacher Comp 9th	SS: “An Honest Thief” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Dangling Modifiers Vocabulary:  duco, fido, fundo/fusum Poem:  Apparently with no surprise
12:  11/12 (M-F)	SS: “The Open Boat” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Two-way modifiers Spelling:  Spelling test Vocabulary:  Test Poem:  Spring and Fall
13:  11/19 (M-T) 2-hour early release 20th Thanksgiving Break 21-23	SS: “The Bet” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Parallelism Vocabulary:  genus, holos, jungo
14:  11/26 (M-F)	SS:  “God Sees the Truth But Waits” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Parallelism Vocabulary:  lego/lectum, locus, loquor Final Product:  Write your own short story.  Diagram your own plot, characters, conflict, climax, etc.  Read story aloud to group/class.
15:  12/3 (M-F)	Persuasive Writing Language Mini Lesson:  Parallelism Vocabulary:  medius, mission, morior Poem:  Do not go gentle into that good night
16:  12/10 (M-F)	Persuasive Writing Language Mini Lesson:  Types of sentences Vocabulary: nego, nihil, occido
17:  12/17 (M-F) 2 hour early release 21st	Persuasive Writing Language Mini Lesson:  Types of sentences Spelling:  Test Vocabulary:  Test Final Product:  Write multiple drafts of a 5-paragraph persuasive essay.  Present essay to your group.
Christmas Break 18:  1/7/13 (M-F) 2nd quarter ends 11th	The Good Earth Language Mini Lesson:  Types of Sentences Vocabulary:  pathos, pendo, per Poem:  The Lake Isle of Innisfree
19:  1/14 (M-F) 3rd quarter beings the 14th	The Good Earth Language Mini Lesson:  Review past lessons Vocabulary:  phobos, plenus, positum Poem:  Mending Wall               The Gift Outright
20:  1/21 (T-F) MLK day the 21st	The Good Earth 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Review past lessons Vocabulary:  porto, possum, pugno Poem:  Mr. Flood’s Party
21:  1/28 (M-F)	The Good Earth 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Paragraphs  Vocabulary:  punctum, rego, sanguis Poem:  Buffalo Bill’s
22:  2/4 (M-F)	The Good Earth Language Mini Lesson: consistent point of view Spelling:  Test Vocabulary:  Test Poem:  Chicago Final Product:  Research an aspect of Chinese culture during the time period of this book.  Write a short research paper with a works cited page.
23:  2/11 (M-Th) PT Conference 13th,14th. 1-hour early release. Teach Comp. 15th	Speeches/Essays:  “Death of a Pig 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: comma rules Vocabulary:  satis, scio, solus Poem:  A Supermarket in California
24:  2/18 (T-F) Pres Day 18th	Speeches/Essays:  “The Marginal World” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Titles (quoted, underline, capitalized) Spelling:  Vocabulary:  sonus, sophos, spiritus Poem:  Theme for English B
25:  2/25 (M-F)	Speeches/Essays:  “Ask not what your country can do for you…” 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: contractions Vocabulary:  totus, tractum, usus
26:   3/4 (M-F)	Speeches/Essays:  “I have a dream,” “Letter from Birmingham Jail 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson:  Writing numbers within a text Vocabulary:  vacuus, verbum, verto Final Product:  Write a speech about your own personal beliefs and ideologies.  Perform for groups/class.
27:  3/11 (M-F)	Non-fiction:  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, excerpts Language Mini Lesson: Easily confused verbs: lie, lay, sit, set, rise, raise, take, bring. Spelling:  Test Vocabulary:  Test
28:  3/18 (M-F) 3rd Quarter Ends	Non-fiction:  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, excerpts Language Mini Lesson:  Subjective/objective case pronouns (I or me) Vocabulary:  via. Review other vocab the rest of the year.  Final Product:  Write an autobiographical poem.
29:  3/25 (M-F) 4th Quarter Begins	Animal Farm Language Mini Lesson:  Any mistakes I notice in student writing. Poem:  “How do I love thee?”
Spring Break 30:  4/8 (M-F)	Animal Farm 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing. Poem:  “We Real Cool”
31:  4/15 (M-F)	Animal Farm 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing.
32:  4/22 (M-F)	Animal Farm 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing. Spelling:  Test Vocabulary:  Test
33:  4/29 (M-F)	Animal Farm 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing. Final Product:  The student needs to choose one of 10 options.  They involve researching current politicians, writing essays, creating a timeline of the plot, etc.  Each involve writing and presenting.
34:  5/6 (M-F)	Foreign Phrases Unit/Latin 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing.
35:  5/13 (M-F)	Foreign Phrases Unit /Latin 6 + 1 writing lesson Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing.
36:  5/20 (M-F)	Portfolios Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing.
37:  5/27 (T-F) Memorial Day 27th	Portfolios Language Mini Lesson: Any mistakes I notice in student writing. Spelling:  test
38:  6/3 (M-W) PT Conf. 5th	Celebration and sharing of our writing.

Notes: 

The vocabulary in this list is Latin and Greek roots.  Classes will have other vocabulary words for each text we read, but the students will not be tested on that vocabulary. 

For each book, short story, and poem we will be learning a different literary term, poetic device.  I do not have those listed here.

Poetry:  The poems we read in class are not done as a single unit.  The final project(s) will be students attempt to replicate the styles of some poems, research the historical context of other poems.  Each poem will have a different homework assignment with it.