Avid English I- Curriculum Map-draft

AVID English I Quarterly Plan 1st Quarter

Guiding Question(s) & Theme(s) Standards & Skills from OCPS order of instruction

Anchor Texts

Poetry or Short Stories

2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter How does literature help us better understand ourselves? Who am I? Where have I How does who I am affect What matters to me? How do been? Where am I going? what I can do? Justice my decisions affect my life? Journeys Choices & Consequences Fluency Fluency Fluency Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension

4th Quarter What defines me? Self & Community Identity Fluency Vocabulary Reading Comprehension

Literary Analysis: Fiction & Nonfiction Writing Process Communication Listening & Speaking

Literary Analysis: Fiction & Nonfiction Writing Process Information & Media Literacy Research Process Technology

Literary Analysis: Fiction & Nonfiction Writing Process

Literary Analysis: Fiction & Nonfiction Writing Process

Firestorm, Klass (summer reading) Touching Spirit Bear, Mikaelson Excerpts from The Oddyssey Greek Myth Excerpts from The Bible

Getting Away with Murder, Chris Crowe Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands, Susan McCarthy

Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare

Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes

“To Be of Use,” Marge Piercy, “Everyday Happiness,”

“The Tell Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe, “Birmingham 1963” by Patterson “American History” by Harper “The Dead” by Mitchell (B) “The Hangman” by Ogden “Children” from The Prophet byGibran “The Dismal Swamp” by Longfellow “Naming the Stars” by Sutphen “Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song” by Blake “We ALL Have a Dream” “In Response to Executive Order 9066” by Okita

Literature circles: Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman Rommiette & Julio, Sharon Draper Scribbler of Dreams, Pearson If You come Softly, Jacquelyn Woodson “The Happiest Day,” Linda Pastan from Good Poems for hard Times

Hughes, “Dream Deferred” Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” Hughes, “Theme for English B” Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” Kafka, “A Little Fable”

Nonfiction readings

“Arctic Expedition,” “The Complete Outdoorsman: 50 Skills Every Sportsman Should Know,” Field & Stream “Second Chances,” READ Magazine, Sally Henderson, “Adult Time for Adult Crime,” READ Magazine.

Writings & Projects

Letter of Introduction (Portfolio) What Do Good Readers Do? essay Memory Narrative writing, Flashback Autobiographical Writing (Portfolio), Various timed writing prompts Independent Study Points Bellwork Reading, Reading Log, Journal Writing

On-going Assignments

Holocaust Poetry “Justice” by Hughes “If We Must Die” by McKay I Never Saw Another Butterfly (K) “Sunday School Bombing in Birmingham” from A History of Us (A) “The Sunday School Bombing” from Time Magazine (A) “The Pledge of Allegiance” (A) “Biographical Sketch of Harry Moore” (B) “Beware the 5 Stages of ‘Grief’” (B) “FBI History” (D) Rock Springs Massacre (E) “Summer of Hate” by Steele (F) “Tupac” (F) Reading about Rosewood (G) “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” (H) “Home Was a Horse Stall” (H) “Crist Announces Results of Harry T. Moore Murder Investigation” (J) The Shadow of Hate What Do Good Writers Do? essay Effective Writing Sort Biography/Research writing Crime Report Thanksgiving Writing Various timed writing prompts Independent Study Points

“Romeo & Juliet in Bosnia”

“A Lampost in Harlem” (A) “Artist Hero: Diego Rivera” (B) “Poetry Heals” (B) Teenage Body Image (C) “Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing in the United States” (C) “Get Back” (D) Harlem Renaissance Timeline (C) “Youth Speaks & Urban Word Press Release” (C) Teen identity (E) “Fitting In” (F)

Independent Reading Essays Poetic Connections Essays Golden Lines Digital Story presentation, Various timed writing prompts Independent Study Points

What’s in a Name? (portfolio) Poetry portfolio AVID videos Participate in classroom (or school-wide) Poetry Slam Various timed writing prompts Independent Study Points