Course and

Unit
English I
Unit I

TEKS

Texts

Reading:
1E, 2, 3A, 5B, 5C,
6A, 7A, 8A, 9D,
10A, Fig 19B

Nonfiction
Excerpt from
Undocumented
literary nonfiction
Expository model

SSR if nonfiction

Fiction
Repetition by Phil
Kaye

Fixer Upper by
Naomi Shihab Nye
Trigger
We Like You for
Your Flaws by Nye
Lightning by Nye
SSR if fiction
Writing:
13A, 13B, 13C,
13D, 13E, 14B,
15A,

Strategy(Best
Practice)
Reading
Literary Elements Review
(L2)
Point of View Anchor
Charts (L3)
Aha Moment (L2, L5)
AVID One Pager (L5)
Character Experience
Analysis (L5)
SAQ Workshop (L5)
CER short answer
strategy (L5)

Writing
Aha Moment (L2)
Craft Move:
Characterization,
Imagery, and Conflict(L2)
Revising and Editing (L2)
Mentor Text for Poetry,
Literary Nonfiction, Short
Story (L2)
Writing Conferences (L2)
Mentor Text (L4)
Mini-lessons:
conjunctions, semi-colon,
and sentence combining
Thesis Evaluation
Feedback (L4)
Expository Prewriting
(L4)
Writers Organization
(L4)
Anecdotal writing (L5)

Summative/performance
tasks

SSR Lessons

Writing Workshop genre selection

Literary Workshop Assessment
Expository Workshop with Essay
Final Draft
Performance Task (possible
summative for Term 2)

Character
Inspire Chart
and Reading
List
Sub-genre
excerpts
Conflict
excerpts
SSR Reading
Conferences
SSR craft
mini-lessons

What makes a journey

meaningful?
Through genre and topic exploration
students will learn how to create a
reading life through self-selection.
Students will discover how
experiences, a characters and their
own, are what make up a meaningful
journey. Students will choose a book
in which a character is central to the
storyline, whether a fiction or
nonfiction. Students will then analyze
the most important concepts in their
selected books and how the main
characters deal with those concepts.
Similarly, students will analyze an
important concept in their own life and
explore what makes that concept
important in expository workshop.
Then they will examine a characters
major realization (or Aha Moment) and
how the characters experiences led
him or her to this realization. Then
students will create a lay out of the
characters journey using relevant
details from their selected book.
Students will evaluate the characters
journey by making meaning of and
connections to his or her realization.
Using the characters journey as a
model, students will identify the most
important concepts in their own life
and the experiences that led them to
their own major realization (or Aha

Moment). Students will create a lay out

of their own journey using anecdotal
details from their own life and present
in groups or whole class.

Course and
Unit
English I
Unit II

TEKS
Reading:
1B, 2A, 2B, 2C,
3A, 4A, 5B, 7A,
8A, 9D, 10A,
12A, Fig 19B

Texts
Nonfiction:
Flaws Humanize
Heroes or
enrichment choices
Decisions Showcase
Nonfiction choices
Refugee Children
Leave Behind

Fiction:
Writing:
13A, 13B, 13C,
13D 15A, 17C,
18B, 19A

Oedipus Rex

Strategy

Summative/Performance
Tasks

Reading
Literary Devices Flipbook
(L5 and ongoing)
Dramatic Conventions
Toolbox and Essential
Questions (L4 and
ongoing)
Readers Theater (L4-L9)
Cartoon Allusion
Connections (L6)
CER short answer
strategy (L10)
Decision Map (L11)

Expository Essay
Decisions Showcase Performance
Task

WRITING:
Power Writing (L1)
Classical Invention (L2)
Thesis Statement
Evaluation (L2)
Expository Prewriting
(L3)
Writing Conference
Questions (L3)
Mini-lesson: Sentence
Variety (L3)
Mini-lesson: Topic
Sentences (L3)
Mini-lesson: transitions
(L3)

How Can Decisions Determine

Courses? Students will discover
the complexities around decision
making: how choices can be
influenced by other people, or how
choices essentially impact others
in a variety of ways. Students will
explore different decisions made
by characters in their SSR book,
the people around them, the
character Oedipus Rex, and even
themselves. Students will develop
an expository essay with examples
to explain how or ways that a
persons decision can impact
others. They will read about the
tragic hero Oedipus Rex and
understand how his decisions
directly impact others and the
outcome for all involved. By
analyzing and evaluating
Oedipuss decisions on various
levels, students will examine his
interaction with other characters
(who helps him, opposes him, and
distracts him), the direct and

SSR
Lessons
SSR time as
needed
SSR to support
Literary Device
Instruction

Course and
Unit
English I,
Unit III

Color Coding Expository

(L3)
Writers Circle (L3)

indirect impacts, and the obvious

and unexpected outcomes of these
decisions. Then students will
choose a real life persons
decision, whether their own
decision, a decision of someone
close to them, a decision they
were impacted by, or a researched
persons decision. They will
investigate the influences and
interactions, the direct and indirect
impacts, and the obvious and
unexpected outcomes of this
decision. Students will eventually
create a product that showcases
their understanding of the
complexities around decision
making.

Summative/performance
tasks
Expository on-demand essay
Crossover Genre Project
Expository Prompt Essay

TEKS

TEXTS

Strategy

Reading:
1B, 2A, 2C,
3A, 4A, 5A,
5C, 6A, 9D,
10B, 11B,
12A, 12D, Fig.
19B

Nonfiction:

Reading:
Big Idea Collage (L1
and ongoing)
Mini-lesson: literary
elements review (L2)
CER short answer
strategy (L4)
Notice and Note
Nonfiction Signposts
(L5)

Book of
Awesome
excerpts
Kids Crossing
Borders
Educating Kids
from Countries
of Crisis
Expository
samples for
scoring
EOC bootcamp
excerpts
SSR

Writing:

How does the

understanding of big
ideas shape perspective?
Students will explore a
variety of big ideas through
multi-genre reading.
Students discover the
various ways authors
communicate a message
about an idea through poetic
forms, visual media, literary

SSR
SSR time as
needed
SSR to
support Genre
Instruction

Fiction:

Genre selection and

models (L6)
Expository
Prewriting(L7)
Five Basic
Punctuation Effects
(L7)
A World Without
Pronouns (L7)
Tracing Pronoun
Antecedent (L7)
Clean Up Clutter (L7)

or dramatic structures, and

informative and persuasive
text. Students will develop
their analysis and supporting
evidence by creating Big
Idea Collages to demonstrate
their understanding. They
will compare similar
meanings in different genres
and form their own
perspective in an analytical
paragraph. Students will
choose a Big Idea Collage as
inspiration for their own
original writing in a genre
they select. Then students
will compare their original
writing to a connecting text
in an analytical product.

Writing:
13B, 13C,
13D, 15A,
17A, 17C, 18B

Uncertainty
Principle
Sound of
Silence
Shake the
Dust
Four Skinny
Trees from
House on
Mango Street
EOC bootcamp
excerpts
SSR

Course and
Unit

TEKS

TEXTS

Strategy

Summative/ performance
tasks

SSR

English I,
Unit IV

Reading: 1B,
2A, 5A, 5B, Fig.
19B

SSR Group
Selected Texts
The Maze Runner

Pictorial Anchor Chart

(L1)
Book Clubs (on-going)
World Building and
Writing Workshop (ongoing)

Whats the Next Big Fad?

Students will use the persuasive
appeals to persuade a target
audience to purchase their
product.

SSR in World
Building
Groups

How Does Our World Define

Revision Workshop
Publishing (on-going)

Writing: 13A,
13C, 13D, 13E,
14A, 25, 26

Us?
Students will explore a literary
fad in groups and analyze
setting, characterization,
conflict, language, and theme.
Students will discover what
qualities define that fad
through reading workshop
using book clubs. Students will
collaborate to apply the literary
elements from their models
during their own world building
workshop. Students will
develop an individual piece of
writing that fits into the world
their group has created. During
the writing workshop, students
will work on an original creative
writing piece that incorporates
the literary elements that they
have analyzed through mentor
texts and the creation of an
original world. The final product
will be revised and published as
a group anthology to be
presented to the class.