QUARTER ONE
Standard: AOR 1.1, AOR 5.1
King Midas and the Golden Touch
Gilgamesh
Brown Girl Dreaming
What's So Funny Mr. Scheska?
Standard: AOR 1.2, AOR 8.1
A Dream Deferred
Love Is
A Voice
I Am From Poems (Students write their own.)
Standard: C. 1.1, C. 4.1, AOR. 5.3, C.5.1
Chameleon
Fisk Cheeks
Gate A-4
Students write an argumentative essay determining which text best shows acceptance of ones culture and identity.
QUARTER TWO
Standard: AOR.2.2 and AOR 6.1
Success of the Roman Empire (Collaboration with Social Studies)
Standard: AOR 1.1, AOR 7.1
Novel Study: Ali Cross by James Patterson
Standard: AOR 2.2, AOR 5.3, C. 3.1
Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech (Individual)
Chief Joseph's Surrender Speech (Model)
Gettysburg Address (Class Annotation and Group Work)
Standard: C.4.1
NoRedInk Modules: Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Appositives and Appositive Phrases
QUARTER THREE
Standard: AOR 5.3
Wild Animals Aren't Pets
Let People Own Exotic Pets
Standard: R.1.1, R.1.4 , C.7.1
Shark Tank Business Project
Brainstorming
Marketing Strategy
Financial Planning (Collaboration with Math)
Presentations
Standard: AOR 1.1 and C.4.1
Pax
Zoo
Standard: AOR.2.1, C.8.1
Zoo
Terrible Things
The Glass Garden
Standard: AOR.2.2
Animal Snoops
Standard: AOR 1.2, AOR 8.1
Animal Wisdom
The Last Wolf
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
We Wear the Math
QUARTER FOUR
COMING SOON!