10th Grade – World Literature

TIME CONTENT/THEME CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES

1st Marking Period Ancient Worlds
Persuasive Writing (Summer Read.)
Chinese/Japanese Literature
Ancient Greece & Rome
Vocabulary
Grammar
• Unit Test w/ open ended question • The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Elements of epics • Content plus application • The Mahabharata
• Epic hero, archetype, quest/journey • Extension activities • The Fisherman and the Jinnee
• Literary Devices • Collins quizzes/activities • Selections from the anthology
• Structure: flashback, frame story
• Figurative language: allusion
• Literary Elements
• Characterization, theme/moral, imagery,
conflict
• Literary Genre
• Epic
• Folk Tale
• World Scriptures/Proverbs
• Revised five-paragraph essay
• Writing Process (modeled)
• Intro, body, conclusion
• Text Citation
• Unit Test w/ open ended questions • Tao Te Ching
• Literary Devices
• Content plus application • The Analects
• Structure: cause/effect text structure
• Extension Activities • Zen Parables
• Figurative language: aphorism, paradox,
• Collins quizzes/activities • Poetic selections from the anthology
imagery, metaphor
• Literary Elements
• Tone, style, mood, theme (analyze
relationship)
• Literary Genre
• Philosophical Text / Parables
• Poetry
• Tanka
• Haiku
• Written Response (Collins Type 3) • Oedipus
• Elements of Tragic Drama • Persuasive analysis of the
• Aristotle’s definition of tragedy/tragic components of a tragedy
hero
• Literary Devices
• Structure: foreshadow, flashback, strophe,
anti-strophe, subplots
• Figurative language: irony, illusion
• Literary Elements
• conflict, tone, point of view, irony, setting
• Literary Genre
• Tragic Drama
• Unit Tests • Vocabulary Power Plus Book 2
• Extension Activities • Sadlier-Oxford Books E and F
• Word acquisition and usage
• Anthology supplementals
• Diagramming • Grammar Workbook
• Parts of Speech, Parts of the Sentences • Tests • Anthology Supplementals
• Extension Activities • Student Samples
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TIME CONTENT/THEME CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES

2nd Marking Period The Middle Ages
Informative/Analytical Writing
The Renaissance
• Elements of Medieval Literature • Unit Test w/ open ended questions • Song of Roland
• Feudal values, courtly love, hero virtues • Content plus application • Nibelungenlied
• Elements of epic • Extension Activities • Percival: The Grail
• Historical development of the epic, • Collins quizzes/activities • The Divine Comedy
archetype • The Lay of the Werewolf
• Literary Devices
• Structure: narrative poetry
• Figurative language: imagery, metaphor,
allusion, irony
• Literary Elements
• symbolism, point of view (first person),
voice, tone, purpose
• Literary Genre
• Medieval Epic
• Poetry
• Short Story
• Allegory
• Five paragraph essay
• Writing Process
• Text Citations
• Comparison of Purpose/Values
• Unit Test w/ open ended questions • Selections from Petrarch and Ronsard
• Literary Devices • Content plus application • Decameron
• Sound Techniques: scansion, rhyme, • Extension Activities • Choose one selection from Elizabethan
rhythm, meter, assonance, alliteration, • Collins quizzes/activities tragedy
repetition • Julius Caesar
• Figurative Language: imagery, metaphor, • Dr. Faustus (Marlowe)
irony, hyperbole
• From Don Quixote
• Literary Elements
• Symbolism, characterization, motive,
theme, tone, style, mod, conflict
• Literary Genre
• Poetry
o Lyric Poetry
o Sonnets
• Fiction: short story, novella
o Frame
• Fiction: Courtly Romance
• Drama
o Elizabethan tragedy

Vocabulary
• Unit Tests • Vocabulary Power Plus Book 2
• Word acquisition and usage • Extension Activities • Sadlier-Oxford Books E and F
Grammar • Anthology Supplementals
• Clauses
• independent vs. dependent • Unit Tests • Grammar Workbook
• adjective, adverb, noun • Extension Activities • Anthology Supplementals
• Sentence Type • Student Samples
• Compound
• Complex
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• Compound/Complex
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TIME CONTENT/THEME CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES

3rd Marking Period Rationalism • Literary Devices • Unit Test w/ open ended questions • The Fox and the Crow
• Figurative Language: personification, • Content plus application • The Oak and the Reed
exaggeration, understatement, faulty logic • Extension Activities • Candide
• Literary Elements • Collins quizzes/activities
• symbolism, moral
• Literary Genre
• Fable
• Fiction/Satire
Romanticism • Unit Test w/ open ended questions • Faust (Goethe)
• Elements of Romanticism
• Nature, Individualism, Emotion • Content plus application • The Expiation
• Literary Devices • Extension Activities • Other poetic selections from anthology
• Structure: foreshadow • Collins quizzes/activities
• Figurative language: imagery
• Literary Elements
• Theme, tone, conflict, characterization
(character motivation), symbolism, mood,
point of view
• Literary Genre
• Drama
• Poetry
Realism Choice of short stories
• Unit Test w/ open ended questions •
• Elements of Realism • Two Friends
• Content plus application
• Common language, everyday characters, • How much land Does a Man Need
• Extension Activities
factual presentation
• Collins quizzes/activities • A Problem
• Literary Devices
• A Doll House
• Structure: foreshadow, flashback
• Choice of Critical Reviews on A Doll
• Figurative language: irony House from anthology
• Literary Elements
• characterization (dynamic/static,
motivation), conflict (internal/external),
setting, theme, tone, mood
• Literary Genre
• Fiction: short story
Informative/Analytical Writing • Drama
• Critical Review • Five paragraph essay

• Writing Process
• Text Citations
Vocabulary • Comparison of Romantic/Realistic works
(Prentice Hall 956) • Unit Tests
• Extension Activities
• Word acquisition and usage
Grammar • Vocabulary Power Plus Book 2
• Unit Tests • Sadlier-Oxford Books E and F
• Extension Activities • Anthology Supplementals
• Verbals (recognition, construction,
application) • Grammar Workbook
• Participles • Anthology Supplementals
• Gerunds • Student Samples
• Infinitive
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• Appositives
• Prepositional phrases
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4 Marking Period Modern • Elements of Modern Literature
• Experimentation, psychological analysis • Unit Test w/ open ended questions • The Metamorphosis
of character, questioning values of the • Content plus application • Poetic selections from anthology
past • Extension Activities • Choice of short story selections from
• Elements of Literature of the Fantastic • Collins quizzes/activities anthologies
• Nightmarish mood, science fiction, • War
distorted views • The Glass of Milk
• Literary Devices • Under Reconstruction
• Structure: foreshadow, flashback, • My Old Home
epiphany
• Figurative Language: irony, imagery,
metaphor
• Literary Elements
• Conflict, mood, tone, characterization
(direct/indirect, static/dynamic), purpose,
point of view, setting, atmosphere,
speaker
• Literary Genre
• Autobiographical Fiction
• Short Stories
• Poetry
o Lyrical
Contemporary • Unit Test w/ open ended questions
• Elements of Literature of Contemporary • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the
• Content plus application World
Literature
• Extension Activities • House Taken Over
• Conflicting lifestyles (traditional/modern),
• Collins quizzes/activities • The Guest
postwar reaction to culture, passionate
search for identity and meaning • The Noble Prize n Literature
• Literary Devices • Selections of Poetry from anthology
• Figurative Language: irony, imagery, • Supplimental text including but not
metaphor, simile, personification limited to
• Literary Elements • Mirrors and Windows
• Point of view, conflict, purpose, tone, • Choice of novel including but not limited
mood, symbolism, theme, speaker to
• Literary Genre • Things Fall Apart
• Short Story
o Magical Realism
o Existentialism
• Speech
• Poetry
o Surrealism
• Memoir/Oral History
• Novel
Informative/Analytical Writing
• Writing Process • Five paragraph essay
• Text Citations
• Comparison and contrast Literary Themes
Vocabulary Across Cultures (Prentice Hall 1402) • Vocabulary Power Plus Book 2
• Unit Tests
• Sadlier-Oxford Books E and F
Grammar • Word acquisition and usage • Extension Activities
• Anthology Supplementals
• Review • Unit Tests
• Grammar Workbook
• phrases and clauses • Extension Activities
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• sentence types and combination
TIME CONTENT/THEME
ALL MARKING PERIODS Comprehension and Reading Skills
For Fiction & Non-Fiction
RECURSIVE
Interpretation and Analysis
Of Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Anthology Supplementals
• Student Samples
CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES
• Vocabulary • Collins Activities • Teacher Modeling
o Acquisition and use • Unit Tests • Scaffolding of Techniques
• Word recognition • Writing Activities • PSSA style questions
o Root words and content words • Extension Activities • Classroom Texts
• Inferences/conclusions/generalizations
o Make inferences
o Cite supporting evidence
• Main idea/details
o Identified stated or implied
main idea
o Cite supporting evidence
• Summarization
o Summarize key details
• Genre
o Identify/analyze purpose
o Cite supporting evidence
• Interpret, compare, describe, analyze and • Collins Activities
evaluate components • Unit Tests
o Character, setting, plot, theme, • Writing Activities
tone, style, mood, symbolism • Extension Activities
o Connections between texts
• Interpret, compare, describe, analyze and
evaluate literary devices
o Examples/purpose/effectiveness
of personification, simile,
metaphor, hyperbole, satire,
imagery, foreshadowing,
flashbacks and irony
o Identify and assess
effectiveness of point of view
o Fact vs. opinion
o Bias/propaganda techniques