Quarter 1:

August 24 -

September 30

I - The Complexities within Individuals

Anchor Text: Fences, Wilson

Multi-genre supplemental texts and media

Writing Focus: Prose Analysis (FRQ2)

    2 summative prose essays (The Street, Fences)

(independent choice read first nine weeks)

Poetry - “Say Thank You, Say I’m Sorry” “Weather” “Flying Kites” “My Papa’s Waltz” “Mending Wall” “Those Winter Sundays”

Short stories - “Everyday Use” “The Story of an Hour” “Cathedral”

Letter, Poetry Identification Project, Cathedral analysis paragraph, Troy analysis paragraph,

Quarter 2:

October 1 -

October 23

They - The Complexities of Others

Anchor Text: Counting Descent, (Smith)

Multi-genre supplemental texts and media

Writing Focus: Poetry Analysis (FRQ1) “There is a Lake Here” “Kissing in Vietnamese” or “The Raincoat”

     2 summative poetry essays

     Booksnaps Project 1 due, College Essays

Poetry - “If We Must Die” “Echo Sonnet” “Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin”

(independent choice read first nine weeks)

Quarter 3:

October 26 -

December 2

We - The Complexities in Society

Anchor Text: Frankenstein 

Multi-genre supplemental texts and media

Writing Focus: Whole Novel Analysis (FRQ3)

    2 summative FRQ3 essays (Frankenstein FRQ, dystopian FRQ)

(dystopian choice read second nine weeks)

Poetry - “The World is too Much with Us” “Mutability” “Dear Dr. Frankenstein” “Ozymandias”

Quarter 4:

December 3 -

January 15

I Am. They Are. We Will Be.

Anchor Texts: Multi-genre texts for review

Writing Focus: Review

    3 summative essays - FRQ1, FRQ2, FRQ3

    Multi-genre Dystopian Project, Personal Narrative

(dystopian choice read second nine weeks)

Poetry - Sirens paired poems, “Girl”

Short stories - “The Tell-Tale Heart” “Shrendi Vashtar””Girl” “The Ones who Walk away from Omelas” “A Christmas Memory”