Unit 3
January 23 - March 23

Topic: Discovering the Self
Essential Question: How do we define ourselves?
Performance Mode: Narrative

🔍 Focus Standards

Reading Literature

11-12.RL.6 When reading texts, including those from diverse cultures, determine two or more themes and analyze their development, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account, and provide an objective summary that includes textual evidence.

11-12.R.8 Determine the meaning and impact of words and phrases on tone and mood, including words with multiple meanings. Analyze figurative language, connotative meanings, and figures of speech. Examine how the author uses and refines the meaning of domain-specific vocabulary and how language differs across historical time periods, cultures, regions, and genres.

11-12.R.10 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of structures across multiple texts about similar topics/themes, including whether the structures make points or events clear, effective, convincing, or engaging.

11-12.RL.14 Analyze two or more texts of literary significance across and within time periods with similar topics and themes, drawing on their purposes, stylistic choices, and rhetorical features.

Writing

11-12.W.3 Write narrative texts to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-structured event sequences, well-chosen details, and provide a resolution with closure.

a. Engage and orient the reader by describing a complex problem, situation, or observation.

b. Establish one or multiple point(s) of view, and develop a setting, narrator and/or characters.

c. Apply narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, flashback, and multiple plot lines to develop characters and well-structured event sequences.

d. Utilize varied syntax techniques and descriptive language to create a mood and tone appropriate to purpose, task, and audience.

e. Use appropriate conventions and style for the audience, purpose, and task.