English IV Curriculum Map Revised

GREENEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL – CURRICULUM MAP

Subject: English IV

CLE Content Skills Assessment 1

st 4 ½

weeks CLE 3005.1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4

Vocabulary (throughout the term) Reference tools – dictionary & thesaurus

Word maps

Reading Response Journals

Structured vocabulary study (Vocabulary

Workshop)

List of foreign words and phrases

Grammar (throughout the term)

Daily Grammar Practice

Language Network: Grammar, Writing,

Communication (textbook)

Language Network: Grammar, Usage, and

Mechanics Workbook

Literature Anglo Saxon Period

Period introduction Heroic tradition: Beowulf

Elegiac tradition: ―The Seafarer,‖ ―The

Wanderer,‖ and ―The Wife’s Lament‖

The History of the English People by

Venerable Bede

Anglo-Saxon Poetry – Caedmon’s Hymn

Informational text: ―Life in 999: A Grim

Struggle‖

Medieval Period/Middle Ages

Period introduction

Medieval romance – Arthurian legend

The Canterbury Tales

Folk ballads – ―Barbary Allen, ― ―Lord

Randall,‖ ―Get Up and Bar the Door‖

Novel

Lord of the Flies

Writing

Language

Understand that language is a reflection and change agent of its time and

culture.

Know and apply a variety of sentence combining techniques.

Employ a variety of strategies and resources to determine the definition,

pronunciation, etymology, spelling and usage of words and phrases.

Investigate the relationship between Old, Middle, and Modern English.

Demonstrate understanding of foreign words and phrases.

Use the origins, history, and evolution of words and concepts to enhance

understanding.

Demonstrate control of standard English through grammar, usage and

mechanics.

Understand and use correctly a variety of sentence structures.

Communication

Analyze the style, structure and rhetorical devices of a speech.

Identify the thesis and main points of a complex speech.

Participate productively in a self-directed work team to interpret a piece of

literature.

Writing

Write in a variety of modes.

Use an organizational strategy for medium, purpose, and audience.

Employ a variety of pre-writing strategies.

Use a variety of strategies when appropriate (comparisons, anecdotes, detailed

descriptions) to provide facts, details, reasons, and examples that support the

theses.

Use transitions to signal organizational patterns and to connect and contrast

ideas.

Use precise language appropriate to audience and purpose.

Generate notes while collecting information.

Create a detailed outline based on research, note taking, or some other method

of generating content.

Employ grammar, usage, and mechanics as rhetorical tools, using incorrect

structures as appropriate for effect (e.g. short sentences/fragments or single-

sentence paragraph).

Include relevant, specific, and compelling details.

Use compelling verbs and variety of figurative language.

Edit writing for mechanics, style, tone and mood.

Tests – multiple choice,

T/F, matching, short answer

and essay.

Quizzes – announced and

unannounced

Cooperative learning

projects/activities

Daily work

Notes check

Vocabulary exercises

Enrichment activities –

Canterbury scavenger Hunt

Memorization of Prologue

to Canterbury Tales

Discussion of novel

Reading Response Journal

for Lord of the Flies

Essays:

1) Analyzing a work for

its epic characteristics or

creating a modern epic with

a hero/heroine in a battle

with some evil force

(2) Comparison/contrast

essay using Beowulf and

Lord of the Flies

In-class writing activities

6.1 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5

Note-taking strategies: summarizing and

paraphrasing

WFTF: utilizing graphic organizers

Epic characteristics and/or a ―modern‖ epic

Comparison/contrast of Beowulf and Lord of the

Flies

Informational Text Summarize in a concise and well-organized way the main ideas, supporting

details, and relationships among ideas in a complex informational text. Literature

Consider the characteristics of genre and the limitations of form when

interpreting complex texts.

Compare and contrast elements (form, language, plot, and characters) of two

works representing different literary periods.

Analyze and evaluate text as a reflection of the literary time period.

Compare & contrast elements of two works representing different literary

periods.

Recognize and identify the characteristics of lyric poetry, blank verse, free

verse, epic, sonnet, dramatic poetry, and ballad.

Identify, analyze, and evaluate the use of metrics, rhyme scheme, and

alliteration in complex poetry.

Analyze texts to identify the authors’ attitudes, viewpoints, and beliefs and to

critique how these relate to the larger historical, social, and cultural context of

the texts.

Analyze how plot development determines characters’ conflicts and dilemmas

and how plot structure functions in complex literary texts.

Analyze narration and point of view.

Analyze the role and function of characters and how the author reveals those

characters.

Identify how setting and changes in setting can affect the literary elements

(plot, character, theme, tone) in complex literary texts.

Comprehend and use figurative language.

Use prior knowledge and explicit study to identify the meaning of biblical,

classical, cultural, historical, and literary allusions.

2nd 4 ½

weeks CLE 2.3 2.4

4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4

Literature

Renaissance

Period introduction

Sonnets

Queen Elizabeth’s Tilbury speech

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Writing

Research: Senior research paper – British or

world literature or history

Rough draft and final copy

Language (see 1st nine weeks)

Communication (see 1st nine weeks)

Writing (see 1st nine weeks)

Research Define and narrow a problem or research topic.

Take and organize notes.

Reference primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.

Select reliable sources and collect evidence.


T/F, matching, and essay.


unannounced


projects/activities

Daily work

4.5

7.1 7.2 7.3

8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5

Craft an introductory section that includes a purposeful thesis and a successful

conclusion.

Maintain coherence throughout paper and organize ideas effectively.

Correctly acknowledge reference material.

Quote, paraphrase, and summarize information from a variety of valid sources.

Follow MLA formatting guidelines.

Media Identify, analyze, and evaluate effectiveness of relationships between visual

and verbal elements in media.

Recognize how visual and sound techniques carry or influence media.

Literature (see 1st nine weeks)

Identify and analyze elements of literary drama (dramatic irony, dialogue,

soliloquy, monologue, aside)

Identify elements of literary drama and evaluate the ways in which they

articulate a playwright’s vision in a complex play.

Analyze literature using characteristics of time period, compare & contrast

elements, analyze the function & effect of literary elements: setting, character,

plot, theme, point of view, figurative language, tone, mood, allusion, irony,

paradox, allegory, foreshadowing, and symbolism. Identify the author’s attitude,

viewpoints, and beliefs.

Identify, analyze, and explain the multiple levels of theme(s) within a complex

literary text and of similar or contrasting themes across two or more texts.


Notes check

Bibliography cards

Note cards

Outline with thesis

Bibliography cards

Research rough draft

Research final draft

Memorization of selected

passages from Macbeth


3rd

4 ½ weeks

2.5 2.6 2.7

Literature

Metaphysical Poetry

John Donne’s Holy Sonnets &―Meditation 17‖

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

John Milton’s Paradise Lost

The Restoration & 18th

Century

Period introduction

Restoration comedy

Prose – Samuel Johnson’s dictionary and

epigrams, other selected pieces

Satire – social & political – Jonathan Swift’s

―Modest Proposal‖ & Gulliver’s Travels

Public document: ―A Vindication of the Rights

of Woman‖

Neoclassicism

The Romantic Period

Language – (See 1st nine weeks)

Communication

Organize an oral presentation on a complex topic by breaking the topic into

parts accessible to listeners, emphasizing key concepts or points, and closing

with a recommendation or observation on the relevance of the subject to a wider

context.

Utilize an organizational structure that enhances the appeal to the audience and

is appropriate for the purpose.

Summarize, paraphrase, and critique information presented orally by others.

Writing (See 1st nine weeks)

Research (See 2nd

nine weeks)

Logic



and essay.


unannounced


projects/activities

Daily work

Notes check


CLE 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6

6.1 6.2

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4

Wordsworth & Coleridge

Keats, Byron & Shelley

Informational text: ―An Irresistible Bad Boy:

The Byronic Hero‖

Novel: Animal Farm

Writing

Literary analysis of a poem from the Romantic

Period

―A Student’s Proposal‖

Essay on Animal Farm

Evaluate the relevance, quality, and sufficiency of evidence used to support or

oppose an argument.

Analyze and explain how a variety of logical arguments reach different and

possibly conflicting conclusions on the same topic.

Identify and analyze persuasive devices that are sued in written and oral

communication.

Differentiate among evidence, inferences, assumptions, and claims in

argumentation.

Describe the structure of a multi-faceted argument with an unstated main

claim and explicit or implicit premises.

Differentiate among evidence, inferences, assumptions, and claims in

argumentation.

Identify false premises and explain the role they play in argumentation.

Analyze common logical fallacies.

Identify established methods (historical, scientific) used to distinguish

between factual claims and opinions.

Analyze text for stated or implied cause-effect relationships.

Informational Text

Analyze the organizational structure of an informational or technical text.

Evaluate the ways in which the unconventional organizational structure of a

complex informational or technical text supports or confounds its meaning or

purpose.

Synthesize information across multiple complex informational and technical

texts.

Media

Employ conventional and unconventional visual images, text, graphics,

music, and/or sound effect to achieve the purposes in complex media

presentations.

Understand the transactional nature of media by considering audience in

preparing productions.

Demonstrate consistent and effective audience focus through purposeful

choice of medium; compelling images, words, and sounds; and focused

supporting ideas.

Literature – (See 1st nine weeks)

.

Presentation: Romantic

poet and a specific work of

that poet

Reading Response Journal

for Animal Farm

Discussion of novel

Essays:

1) ―A Student’s Proposal‖-

Students will take a problem

in society or at GHS and

propose an outlandish

solution for it in imitation of

Swift’s ―A Modest

Proposal.‖

2) Literary analysis of a

poem from the Romantic

Period

3) Essay on Animal

Farm—Students will have

several topics from which to

choose.


4

th 4 ½

weeks

2.3 2.4

6.1 6.2

7.1 7.3

The Victorian Period

Period introduction

Selected works

Informational texts: ―An Age in Need of

Heroes‖ and ―A Closer Look: Social Influences‖

The Twentieth Century Period introduction

Selected short stories, poetry, and essays

Speech: Desmond Tutu’s ―The Question of

South Africa

Drama: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Movie: My Fair Lady

Writing

Literary analysis of satire found in the work

studied from the Restoration through the 21st

century – focus on satire as a tool of social

criticism

Analysis of a current work of satire

Language – (See 1st nine weeks)

Communication

Analyze the ways in which the style, structure, and rhetorical devices of a

challenging speech support or confound its meaning or purpose, taking into

account the speaker’s nonverbal gestures, credibility, and point of view.

Writing – (See 1st nine weeks)

Logic – (See 3rd nine weeks)

Informational Text

Recognize clear or subtle and implied relationships among ideas in complex

informational and technical texts.

Media

Evaluate the effectiveness of conventional and unconventional visual and

sound techniques and design elements to achieve specific purposes and deliver

specific messages.

Identify, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the relationships between

visual elements and verbal messages in virtually any media, emphasizing the

cultural context, audience, and purpose.

Literature – (See 1st nine weeks)

Identify and analyze elements of literary drama (dramatic irony, dialogue,

soliloquy, monologue, aside)

Identify elements of literary drama and evaluate the ways in which they

articulate a playwright’s vision in a complex play.



and essay.


unannounced


projects/activities

Daily work

Notes check


Essays:

1) Literary analysis of a

satire studied in class

2) Analysis of a current

work of satire found in a

magazine, newspaper,

movie, or other format


Related Literature Field Studies Technology

1st

4 ½ weeks

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - Elements of Literature, Sixth Course

McDougal Littell – Interactive Reader

Sheila Kay Adams, balladeer & storyteller – Come Go Home With Me, My

Dearest Dear (audio recording) and Whateverr Happened to John Parish’s Boy

(audio recording)

The 13th

Warrior, Excalibur, and In Search of Arthur and Camelot from the

History Channel

The History of Britain - DVD for enrichment

Collect ballads (from

local folklore or popular

music).

Gateway Tablet

LCD projector

PowerPoint presentations

Microsoft Word or equivalent

Integrade Pro

Interactive CDs & DVDs from HRW

Test generator

Teacher web page

Various Internet sites related to course

United Streaming

Turnitin.com for plagiarism prevention

Tennessee Electronic Library databases

Mobile laptop cart

Gaggle

Computer lab

Travel drives

2nd

4 ½ weeks

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - Elements of Literature, Sixth Course


MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fifth Edition.

Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL): Guide to Writing Research

Papers

BBC’s The History of Britain – selected segments

Video: Taming of the Shrew (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton)

Roman Polanski’s Macbeth

Georgia Shakespeare

Festival’s Touring

Company at NPAC

GHS Library

Greeneville/Greene

County Library

Tusculum College

Library

Gateway Tablet

LCD projector



Integrade Pro


Test generator

Teacher web page


United Streaming



Mobile laptop cart

Gaggle

Computer lab

Travel drives

3rd

4 ½ weeks

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston -- Elements of Literature, Sixth Course


DVD: Gulliver’s Travels

Find current satirical

works from a newspaper,

magazine, movie, or

other format.

Gateway Tablet

LCD projector



Integrade Pro


Test generator

Teacher web page


United Streaming



Mobile laptop cart

Gaggle

Computer lab

Travel drives

4th

4 ½ weeks

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston -- Elements of Literature, Sixth Course


Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest

Find a movie made from

one of the works studied

in class and identify

changes in plot,

character, setting, or

theme. Are the changes

necessary? If so, why?

Gateway Tablet

LCD projector



Integrade Pro


Test generator

Teacher web page


United Streaming



Mobile laptop cart

Gaggle

Computer lab

Travel drives

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