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10 G/ICS Pacing Guide
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Two-week summary of major instructional content and skills • 36 instructional weeks
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Week(s)Unit / TextMajor ContentMajor Skills and Assessments
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Weeks 1–2Unit 1: SeptemberHaiku About You/Class introductions; The Bet - Introduction (7 days)1. Follow Haiku form and rules 2. Create and maintain tone/mood 3. Write with focus/purpose
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Weeks 3–4Unit 1: SeptemberThe Bet Reading and Activities; Vocab (10 days)The Bet Reading and Activities; Vocab
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Weeks 5–6Unit 2: OctoberLord of The Flies (LOTF) - Background Group Project; Twilight Zone - The Shelter; LOTF - Chapter 1 - Reading and Activites (12 days)Identify the main characters introduced and describe their initial personalities. Explain the boys’ first attempts to establish order and leadership. Analyze the symbolism of the conch and discuss its role as a symbol of authority and unity. Make predictions about potential conflicts based on character interactions; Assessments/Review: Lord of The Flies (LOTF) - Background Group Project
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Weeks 7–8Unit 2: OctoberLOTF - Chapter 2 - Reading and Activites; LOTF - Chapter 2 Sheet/Overview; LOTF - Chapter 3 Reading (9 days)Summarize the boys’ rules and organizational attempts for survival. Evaluate the group’s response to fear, particularly the “beastie,” and how fear begins to influence decisions. Examine the symbolism of fire and explain how it represents both hope and danger. Identify early signs of power struggles and breakdown of order; Compare Jack’s and Ralph’s priorities and explain how these differences create tension. Analyze the theme of civilization vs. savagery and its early development. Describe Simon’s role in the group and interpret his actions as hints of his symbolic importance. Determine how the boys’ inability to cooperate affects their survival
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Weeks 9–10Unit 3: NovemberLOTF - Chapter 3 Sheet; LOTF - Chapter 1-3 Test; LOTF - Chapter 4 Reading and student sheet (11 days)Identify the main characters introduced and describe their initial personalities. Explain the boys’ first attempts to establish order and leadership. Analyze the symbolism of the conch and discuss its role as a symbol of authority and unity. Make predictions about potential conflicts based on character interactions; Analyze the significance of Jack’s face paint as a symbol of loss of identity and release from shame. Evaluate the consequences of the boys’ neglect of responsibilities (e.g., the fire) and how this fuels conflict. Discuss how power dynamics shift after the missed rescue opportunity; Assessments/Review: LOTF - Chapter 1-3 Test
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Weeks 11–12Unit 3: November / Unit 4: DecemberLOTF - Chapter 5 - Summary; LOTF - Chapter 6 - Read and questions; LOTF Chapter 6 Read and Questions Continued; Nonfiction Reading - Skill Practice - Main Idea (10 days)Explain the dramatic irony of the “beast” from the sky and its significance in the story. Analyze how the boys’ fear escalates and influences their behavior and decisions. Describe how Jack’s influence grows as he uses fear to gain power. Evaluate how the exploration of the island reveals shifting power, priorities, and group identity; Identify the main idea of the text overall and the main idea of sections of text
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Weeks 13–14Unit 4: DecemberNonfiction Reading - Skill Practice - Main Idea; LOTF Chapter 7; Holiday Activity (10 days)Identify the main idea of the text overall and the main idea of sections of text
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Weeks 15–16Unit 5: JanuaryTo Share or not to Share Goals - Reading and Writing Return to School Activity; LOTF Chapter 8 (pd 3) Chapter 7 (pd 6); Chapter 8 quiz; Read chapter 9 (9 days)Read nonfiction articles to support opinion. Use evidence to support reasoning and claims. Write with clarity, fluidity, and purpose; analyze how fear of the “beast” influences the boys’ decisions and contributes to the breakdown of order in chapters 8–9. explain how Golding develops Jack and Simon as contrasting responses to fear, using specific textual evidence from chapters 8–9. identify and interpret key symbols (the Lord of the Flies and the storm) and explain how they reinforce the novel’s central themes; Assessments/Review: To Share or not to Share Goals - Reading and Writing Return to School Activity; Chapter 8 quiz
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Weeks 17–18Unit 5: JanuaryIXL Diagnostic; LOTF Chapters 7-9 Test; Midterm Review/Practice; Midterms (9 days)analyze how fear of the “beast” influences the boys’ decisions and contributes to the breakdown of order in chapters 8–9. explain how Golding develops Jack and Simon as contrasting responses to fear, using specific textual evidence from chapters 8–9. identify and interpret key symbols (the Lord of the Flies and the storm) and explain how they reinforce the novel’s central themes; Assessments/Review: LOTF Chapters 7-9 Test; Midterm Review/Practice
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Weeks 19–20Unit 6: FebruaryChapter 10 LOTF; Chapter 11 LOTF; Speaking - Surprise Topic Public Speaking (8 days)analyze how fear of the “beast” influences the boys’ decisions and contributes to the break identify and interpret key symbols (the Lord of the Flies and the storm) and explain how they reinforce the novel’s central themes; Speak in a presentation setting
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Weeks 21–22Unit 6: FebruaryChapter 12; LOTF Test Review; LOTF Test; Movie - Ending (10 days)Analyze ongoing themes and support claims with evidence and reasoning. Examine character growth, symbols, resolution of novel, identify and analyze conflicts, cause and effect; Watch end of 1963 Movie to compare interpretations; Assessments/Review: LOTF Test Review; LOTF Test
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Weeks 23–24Unit 7: MarchWar Stories - Vocab - Various Activities Throughout Unit; Unit introduction and The Things They Carried Excerpt and Discussion (12 days)Analyze how a story's structure contributes to overall meaning; Acquire new Vocabulary and use words in context to show understanding of connotations and use
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Weeks 25–26Unit 7: MarchWriting - Varying Sentence Length for Effect; Poem - Death of a Soldier; Ode Analysis; Vocabulary; Ode Writing - Creative writing activity (10 days)Analyze how a story's structure contributes to overall meaning; Analyze tone, examine structure, interpret figures of speech; Acquire new Vocabulary and use words in context to show understanding of connotations and use; write an original ode that: Addresses a specific subject directly Uses figurative language (at least 2 metaphors/similes) Incorporates vivid imagery (at least 3 examples) Demonstrates structure and tone consistent with the ode form; Assessments/Review: Writing - Varying Sentence Length for Effect; Ode Writing - Creative writing activity
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Weeks 27–28Unit 8: AprilHalf day Activity Day; Returning from break activity (4/10 and 4/13); Finish Ode Brainstorm; The Wound Dresser (8 days)N/A; Collaborate with peers; write an original ode that: Addresses a specific subject directly Uses figurative language (at least 2 metaphors/similes) Incorporates vivid imagery (at least 3 examples) Demonstrates structure and tone consistent with the ode form; Analyze imagery and poetic structure to determine a theme
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Weeks 29–30Unit 8: AprilYesterday Was Beautiful; During The War; Grammar - Absolute Phrases (9 days)Analyze how an author’s structural choices contribute to a text’s meaning and creates tension or surprise; analyze imagery and figurative language to determine a poem’s theme; use absolute phrases to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing
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Weeks 31–32Unit 9: MaySpin chapter from The Things They Carried; Reflecting on Unit Themes Group Activity; Connecting Unit Theme to Texts; Absolute Phrases Quiz; Literary Analysis - Exemplary Writing (8 days)Analyze how the structure of a text contributes to a central idea. [RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.5; Analyze a quotation and connect ideas through a discussion; Use absolute phrases to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing; review an essay that cites from multiple texts while using phrases and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships between ideas. focus on using phrases and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships between ideas. also see a new way of organizing an essay; Assessments/Review: Absolute Phrases Quiz; Literary Analysis - Exemplary Writing
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Weeks 33–34Unit 9: MayOutlining the Essay; Writing the Essay; Macbeth: Introduction and Act I; Macbeth - Scene Role Play (9 days)Outline and prepare information for essay; Write an essay that cites from multiple texts while using phrases and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships between ideas; Acquire background about author, plays, history, and theater. Read and establish plot; Act out scenes with provided descriptions to bring play to life; Assessments/Review: Outlining the Essay; Writing the Essay
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Weeks 35–36Unit 9: May / Unit 10: JuneMacbeth Read and questions Acts 1-2; MAcbeth (10 days)Establish characters, setting, plot, motivations; Analyze character development, plot development, irony, and theme
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