Course Outline
Course Outline - 10th
10th English II
Course Outline
Collections – Text Additional Information
Close Reader – Work Booklet for reading ***Background, author information, literary devices, and
Performance Assessment – Work Booklet for writing vocabulary will be an important part of each unit.
Elements of Literature - Supplemental Text ***Glossary of Academic Vocabulary – R79
Chromebook ***Glossary of Critical Vocabulary – R80- R81
***Performance Tasks and Writing
Ourselves and Others
August 5 P.M., Tuesday, August 23, 2005, p. 309 -310
The Lottery, p. 25 - 34
Responses to Change
September Magic Island, p. 137 – 138
from Rivers and Tides, p. 141
Starfish, p. 18, Close Reader
Sea Stars, p. 20 – 22, Close Reader
Silas Marner
The Natural World
October Called Out, p. 51 - 54
Walt Whitman, p. 74 – 75, Performance Assessment
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, p. 59
My Life as a Bat, p. 71 - 74
Carry, p. 79 – 80
Silas Marner - Finish
November Edgar Allan Poe, p. 129 – 130, Performance Assessment
The Raven, p. 131 -134, Performance Assessment
Poe’s Process: Writing “The Raven,” p. 135 -136, Performance Assessment
Absolute Power
November . . . Shakespearean Drama, p. 210 -212
The Tragedy of Macbeth, p. 213 – 289
from The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I. Scenes 1-5, p. 73 - 95, Close Reader
from Macbeth on the Estate, p. 293
December The Starry Night (painting) by Vincent van Gogh, p. 48, Close Reader
The Starry Night, (poem) by Anne Sexton, p. 49, Close Reader
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Finish
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Hard-Won Liberty
January Finish December items
Research Skills Unit
February Letter from Birmingham Jail, P. 319 - 336
Speech at the March on Washington, p. 99 - 104, Close Reader
from Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin, p. 351 - 355
from Gandhi: The Rise to Fame, p. 359
March Cloudy Day, p. 373 -374
The Legend, p. 668-669 Blue text
What Happened During the Ice Storm, p. 214-215
We grow accustomed to the Dark, p. 156
Before I got my eye put out, p. 157
To Kill a Mockingbird
How We See Things
April Musee des Beaux Arts, p. 190
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (painting), p. 191
Loveliest of Trees
The Trouble with Poetry, p. 58 - 59, Close Reader
To Kill a Mockingbird
May Today, p. 61
Every Second Counts, p. 63 – 66, Close Reader
Australian Fauna, p. 56 - 59, Non-Fiction, Performance Assessment
New to Australia, p. 60 - 61, Performance Assessment
To Kill a Mockingbird - Finish
12 Angry Men – If time allows
***Due to uncertainty with the timing of both online and in-person instruction,
I may add additional items to some of the units and/or add additional items at the end.