GR 11 ELA-SS Curricula 8-2014

Eleventh Grade Literacy Curriculum Scope and Sequence (page 1)
Revised 8/2014
Q1 English/Language Arts essential questions, vocabulary Social Studies essential questions, vocabulary, people & places
Course introduction Course introduction

W1 Establish procedures Establish procedures
LDC UNIT 1 What effects did the Dust Bowl and the migration LDC UNIT 1 What were the causes of the Great Depression?
associated with the Dust Bowl have on individuals and How did people deal with the hardship of the Great Depression?
W2 Great Depression/Dust Bowl families?
Great Depression
What effects did the New Deal have on America?
The Language of Literature dialect, key words, opinion, tone, universal American Vision stock market, bull market, margin, margin call, speculation,
Grade 10 significance, voice, bias, author's purpose, narrative, Ch 22, Sec 1, 2 installment, Black Tuesday, Wall Street, bailiff, shantytown,
W3
John Steinbeck interpret, summarize, argument/position, Causes of the Great Depression Hooverville, hobo, Dust Bowl, soap opera, gold standard, New Deal,
key/supporting details, compare/contrast, draw Life During the Depression polio, bank holiday, fireside chats, FDIC, Civilian Conservation Corps,
"The Flood" excerpted from the
conclusion, anecdote, evaluate Hundred Days, broker state, safety net
Grapes of Wrath (922)
"Grapes of Wrath - photo Ch 23, Sec 2, 3
The First New Deal
essay" (927)
The New Deal Coalition
Selected articles from The
Harvest Gypsies "The Harvest Gypsies" Article
“Black Sunday: April 14, 1935” IV
W4 “Mass Exodus from the Plains”
"Life Histories About the
"What Caused the Dust Bowl" Federal Writers Project"
"The Plow that Broke the "Timeline"
Plains" "The New Deal"
The American Novel, the How are people transformed through their The World at War What lasting effects did WWI have on the United States?
relationships with others? When, if ever, is war justified?
1930's
What are the community's responsibilities to the What type of government is best suited to restore economic and
individual?
Ch 19, Sec 3, 4 social stability?
W5 John Steinbeck What is the American Dream? A Bloody Conflict What effects of WWII are still seen in the U.S. today?
Of Mice and Men (novel) The War's Impact What were the moral and military implications of dropping the
Atomic bomb?
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(continued from above) foreshadowing, symbol, dialect, plot: exposition; rising (continued from above) self-determination, Allies, Central Powers, propaganda, U-Boat,
action; climax; falling action; resolution, protagonist, Sussex Pledge, Zimmerman Telegram, facisism, Hitler, Stalin,
W6 antagonist, cultural significance, motifs, narrative, Mussolini, Lenin, Roosevelt, Churchill, militarists, Neutrality Act of
The American Novel, the point of view: third limited, setting
Ch 24, Sec 1, 2, 4 1935, appeasement, blitzkrieg, strategic materials, Lend-Lease Act,
1930's America and The World embargo, Third Reich, Normandy, Island-Hopping, kamikaze,
WWII Begins
John Steinbeck unconditional surrender, Manhattan Project, D-Day, International
America Enters the War Military Tribunal, Operation Overlord, Casablanca Conference,
Of Mice and Men (novel)
W7 Dwight Eisenhower, Philippines, Battle of the Bulge, Harry S.
Ch 25, Sec 2, 4 Truman, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, United Nations, Nuremberg Trials,
The Early Battles Patton, Bataan Death March, Pearl Harbor, MacArthur, Stalingrad,
The Short Story How is the gothic tradition reflected in literature? Midway
How does the setting impact a character and action? Pushing the Axis Back
How are the roles of men and women defined in
Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Literature? Ch 25, Sec 5
"Masque of the Red Death" How has the treatment of physical and psychiatric
W8 The War Ends
(454) illness changed?
William Faulkner
"A Rose for Emily"
(516) plot: exposition; rising action; climax; falling action;
resolution, conflict: internal; external, characterization,
protagonist, antagonist, setting, imagery, theme,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman symbolism, narrative point of view: first, first plural,
"The Yellow Wallpaper" third limited, third omniscient, irony, allegory, literary
(765) movement: Gothic; Southern Gothic, figures of speech:
*AAP Mini Unit available at metaphor; simile; personification, foreshadowing,
W9 Edmodo.com flashback, diction: denotation; connotation; dialect,
allusion
Kate Chopin
"The Story of an Hour"
(783)
* The Anthology Allignment Project (AAP) mini units provide Common Core alligned resources including text-dependent questions, writing prompts and student response samples.
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LDC UNIT 2 How were American attitudes toward women and LDC UNIT 2 How did women and minorities contribute to America's mobilization
minorities transformed through World War II? for World War II?
World War II World War II
Describe the experience of women and minorities during WWII?
W1 Houston and Houston
Farewell To Manzanar Ch 25, Sec 1, 3
(memoir) Mobilizing for War
cultural significance, opinion, voice, narrative, Life on the Home Front Selective Service, Tuskegee Airmen, cost-plus, Liberty Ship,
characterization, setting, tone, flashback, first person disenfranchised, Rosie the Riveter, A. Philip Randolph, sunbelt,
"Executive Order 9066" point of view, dialogue, author's purpose, graphics, rationing, victory gardens, Great Migration, Zoot suits, Victory suit,
W2 "Executive Order 8802"
propaganda techniques, bias, author's purpose, E-Bonds, Women's Air Corps, "Double V," Bracero Program
Dwight Okita interpret, summarize, argument/position,
key/supporting details, compare/contrast, draw
"Japanese Internment in the
"In Response to Executive
conclusion, anecdote, evaluate US"
Order 9066" (1095)
*AAP Mini Unit available at
Edmodo.com "A Day That Will Live in
Infamy"
W3 " Japanese-American
Internment Camps WWII"
"Western Defense Command-

Instructions to..."
Shakespearean Drama How does language shape the tragedy of Othello ? Nazi Holocaust How can discrimination lead to genocide?
How do external forces shape an individual? How did German leadership carry out the near extermination of
Ch 24, Sec 3
European Jewry?
William Shakespeare The Holocaust
W4 elements of drama monologue, pun, motif, tragic Holocaust, genocide, Kristallnacht, Nuremberg Laws, concentration
Othello (drama)
hero/flaw, hubris, catharsis, theme, ellipsis, irony, camps, extermination camps, anti-Semitism, Gypsies, Buchenwald,
syntax, allusion, hyperbole, anaphora, euphemism, Auschwitz, Anne Frank, Wannsee Conference
diction, personification, rhetorical question, analogy,
foreshadow, paradox, bandwagon appeal, oxymoron, The Cold War Could the Cold War have been prevented?
simile, alliteration, adage What effect did the Red Scare have on American society?
W5 Ch 26, Sec 1, 2, 3
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(continued from above) (continued from above) Cold War, iron curtain, satellite nation, containment, NATO, limited
war, loyalty review program, fallout, fallout shelter, McCarthyism,
W6 HUAC, Red Scare, massive retaliation, Sputnik, brinkmanship,
Shakespearean Drama The Cold War developing nation, military industrial complex, Potsdam, Berlin
Ch 26, Sec 1, 2, 3 Airlift, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Warsaw Pact, Mao Zedong,
New England Thinkers What inspires people to protest and how far will Origins Korean War, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Project Venona, CIA, NASA,
people go to support their beliefs? Early Years Suez Canal, Khrushchev
What are the defining characteristics of Cold War and American Society
Henry David Thoreau Transcendentalism?
W7 from Walden
(381)
Henry David Thoreau

"Civil Disobedience" cultural significance, mood, literary movement 1950s Society What were the distinguishing characteristics of life for various
(369) (Transcendentalism), paradox, metaphor, simile, segments of American society in the 1950s?
Ch 27, Sec 2, 4
personification, imagery, speaker, author's purpose,
The Affluent Society
repetition, parallelism
Walt Whitman The Other Side of American Life
W8 "Song of Myself "
(400)
white-collar, blue-collar, multi-national corporation, baby boom,
John Kenneth Galbraith, poverty line, urban renewal, juvenile
Robert Frost
delinquency, termination policy
"Mending Wall"
(1002) Kennedy and Johnson How was Kennedy's approach to the presidency different from
previous presidents?
Ch 28, Sec 1, 2, 3
How did JFK and LBJ reform America's social problems?
The New Frontier
JFK and the Cold War
W9 The Great Society
Flexible Response, Peace Corp, Alliance for Progress, Medicare,
Medicaid, Head Start, Great Society, HUD, Bay of Pigs, Warren
Commission, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Fidel Castro, New
Frontier, Nakita Khrushchev, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
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LDC UNIT 3 What ideals inspired and guided the fight for American LDC UNIT 3 What methods work best to bring about change?
civil rights? How did the Civil Rights Movement change American society?
Civil Rights Civil Rights
What was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's role in the Civil Rights
W1 Anne Moody Movement?
from Coming of Age in Ch 29, Sec 1, 2
Mississippi The Movement Begins
(609) imagery, speaker, structure, rhyme, theme, author's Challenging Segregation "Separate-but-Equal", de facto segregation, sit-ins, filibuster, poll
Dudley Randall purpose, narrative, setting, cultural significance, taxes, racism, black power, cultural assimilation, Thurgood Marshall,
evaluate, key words, tone, bias, interpret, summarize, "Civil Rights Act of 1957" Linda Brown, NAACP, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Bus
"Ballad of Birmingham" argument/position, key/supporting details, Boycott, SCLC, Brown v. Board , Plessy v. Ferguson , Southern
W2 (618)
compare/contrast, draw conclusion, anecdote, Manifesto, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, SNCC, Freedom Riders, EECO,
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. evaluate "The Civil Rights Act of 1964" Selma March, Civil Right's Act of 1964
from "Stride Toward Freedom"
(300) "To Fulfill These Rights"
Nikki Giovanni
"Revolutionary Dreams" "The Votong Rights Act of
(1145) 1965"
"The Civil Rights Movement" "The March on Washington

and the Civil Rights Act..."
"Freedom Riders and Southern
Christian ..." "Report to the American
W3 People on Civil Rights"
excerpts from "Little Rock Nine"
excerpts from "Voices of

Freedom"
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Modern Drama What were the distinguishing characteristics of the Ch 29, Sec 3 Watts Riot, Kerner Commission, Richard Daley, Stokely Carmichael,
social, educational, political, and economic climate of New Issues [in Civil Rights] Black Panthers
urban America in the 1950s?
Lorraine Hansberry What is the "American Dream"?
W4 A Raisin in the Sun (Drama)
mood, literary movement (Harlem Renaissance), Politics of Protest How did the success of the Civil Rights Movement carry over into
universal character, allegory, allusion, characterization, other segments of American society?
W5 setting, foreshadowing, plot: exposition; rising action; What effect have protest movements had on America?
climax; falling action; resolution, drama: act; scene;
Ch 31, Sec 1-4
dialogue; stage directions, irony: situational; dramatic; Counterculture counterculture, commune, Port Huron Statement, Students for
verbal, symbol, conflict: internal; external Feminist Movement Democratic Society (SDS), Haight-Ashbury District, pop art,
W6 Affirmative Action/Chavez Woodstock, feminism, Title IX, Betty Friedan, EEOC, National
Environmentalism Organization for Women, Equal Pay Act, Shirley Chisholm,
affirmative action, Congressional Black Caucus, Cesar Chavez,
Human Conflict and What effect does war have on individuals? United Farm Workers, busing, American Indian Movement, smog,
What are the different consequences of political,
Challenges fossil fuel, Rachel Carson, Environmental Protection Agency, Three
religious, and racial conflicts? Mile Island, Ralph Nader, Clean Air Act, Love Canal
W7 Amy Tan from "Mother
Tongue"
(1215)
tone, characterization, setting, flashback, point of
Joyce Carol Oates "Hostage" view, resolution, voice, mood, structure, speaker,
rhyme, imagery, plot: (exposition, rising action, climax,
W8 (1200)
falling action, resolution), conflict: internal; external,
theme, irony: situational; dramatic; verbal
Tim O'Brien "Ambush"
(1105) The Vietnam War How/why did the United States get involved in Vietnam?
W9 Yusef Komunyakaa Ch 30, Sec 1

Ho Chi Mihn, domino theory, guerilla, Dien Bien Phu, Geneva
"Camouflaging the Chimera" The US Focuses on Vietnam
Accords, Ngo Dinh Diem
(1111)
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LDC UNIT 4 TBD LDC UNIT 4 What lasting effects did the Vietnam war have on America?
VIETNAM WAR Vietnam War
W1
The Language of Literature Ch 30, Sec 2, 3, 4
Grade 9 Going to War in Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder, napalm, agent orange, Ho Chi Minh trail,
Vietnam Divides the Nation
Tim O'Brien creditability gap, doves, hawks, teach-ins, linkage, Vietnamization,
The War Winds Down
"Where Have You Gone Ho Chi Minh, Johnson, Kennedy, Nixon, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
Charming Billy" (62) William Westmoreland, Dean Rusk, Tet Offensive, Henry Kissinger,
"Summary of the Gulf of Kent State University incident, My Lai Massacre, Pentagon papers,
*AAP Mini Unit available at
Tonkin Resolution" War Powers Act
Edmodo.com
W2
"The Antiwar Movement"
David McLean
"Marine Corps Issue" (618)
Dennis McEaeney
"Vietnam Warfare, Breeding
Ground for PTSD" (639)
"The Psychological Effects of

the Vietnam War"
W3
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The American Novel, the How can alienation affect a person's identity? The 1970s How did the Watergate scandal alter American perception of
What is a hero's quest or journey? government?
1950's
What events defined the presidencies of Ford and Carter?
Ch 32, Sec 2, 3
W4
Markus Zusak Watergate
The Book Thief (novel) Ford and Carter
theme, motif, symbol, character, antagonist, executive privilege, impeachment, Watergate break-in, Sam Ervin,
protagonist, foil, setting, plot, conflict, flashback, Federal Campaign Act, inflation, embargo, OPEC, Helsinki Accords,
W5
foreshadowing, stream of consciousness, vernacular, Camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis
diction, symbol, hyperbole/litote, verbal irony, tone,
bildungsroman The 1980s What effect did Reagan's presidency have on the balance of world
W6 power?
How did the Cold War finally come to an end?
Ch. 33, Sec. 2, 4
The Reagan Years Reaganomics, budget deficit, Iran-Contra scandal, Oliver North,
End of the Cold War Mikhail Gorbachev, Sandra Day O'Connor, deregulation, Afghan
W7 Rebellion, perestroika, glasnost, Boris Yeltsin, Saddam Hussein,
Operation Desert Storm
Poetry How does Dickinson's poetry reflect nature, hope, Toward the New Millennium What factors led to the economic prosperity of the 1990s?
success, madness, pain, and death? How have the 9/11 attacks re-shaped America and its image in the
Emily Dickinson
world?
Author Study quatrains, slant rhymes, figurative language (simile, Ch 34, Sec 2, 4, 5
metaphor, personification,) style, rhythm, imagery, The Clinton Years
W8 (746)
paradox, stanza, Imagery, stream of consciousness, America Enters a New Century
allusion, speaker, structure, rhyme compare/contrast,
The War on Terrorism
Poetry Study characterization, tone, diction
(750)
perjury, ethnic cleansing, Dayton Accords, AmeriCorps, Bush v.
Gore , al-Qaeda, state-sponsored terrorism, Osama bin-Laden, War
T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of
on Terror, Iraq War
J. Alfred Prufrock"
W9 (1025)
(teacher's choice of at least one more
poem from each of seven units in The
Language Of Literature grade 11)

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Eleventh Grade Literacy Curriculum Scope and Sequence (page 1)

Course introduction Course introduction

"Western Defense Command-

Henry David Thoreau

"The Civil Rights Movement" "The March on Washington

excerpts from "Voices of

W9 Yusef Komunyakaa Ch 30, Sec 1

"The Psychological Effects of

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