Grade 11 Semester 2 [NEW]

Daily / On Going

• SVVSD Routine Writing Handbook

• • The Four-Choice Journal

  • Reader’s Notebook

  • Daybook

  • Interactive Notebook

On-Demand: Imagined Narrative (doc) (Writable)

On-Demand: Informative/Explanatory with Research Focus (doc) (Writable)

On-Demand: Argument: Rhetorical Analysis (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Imagined Narrative (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Informative/Explanatory with Research Focus (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Argument: Rhetorical Analysis (doc) (Writable)

at least 2

• Breaking Through by Fransisco Jiminez

• Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

• Fighting for Space: Two Pilots & Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight by Amy Shira Teitel

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• King Lear by William Shakespeare 

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

• Simon vs the Homo Sapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

at least 4-6

• “David’s Old Soul” by Nikki Grimes (CommonLit) *Must login to CommonLit to view text.

• “Everyday Life as a Learning Experience” by Sarah A. Chrisman (CommonLit) (Pair w/"Excerpt from Walden...")

• “Excerpt from Walden: ‘Where I Lived and What I Lived For’” by Henry David Thoreau (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “Everyday Life as…”)

• “Fear of Change” by Henry Ford (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “Opposing Innovation”)

• “Harlem” by Langston Hughes (Poetry Foundation)

• “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “The Destinies of Two Men…”) 

• “Last Diary Entry of John Wilkes Booth” by John Wilkes Booth (CommonLit) (Pair w/"President Lincoln's...")

• “President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “The Last Diary Entry of John Wilkes Booth")

• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (CommonLit)

• “'To Be or Not To Be' Soliloquy" by William Shakespeare (CommonLit)

at least 2-4

• “Avoid High Student Debt and Dropping Out by Asking These 4 Questions About Any College” by Jake Murray (CommonLit)

• “Excerpt from Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau (CommonLit)

• “Excerpt from 'Self-Reliance'” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Pair w/ “The Elements of Success”)

• “How to Start a Movement” by Derek Sivers (TED-Ed)

• “Morality as Anti-Nature” by Friedrich Nietzsche (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “On the Dignity…”)

• “On the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature” by David Hume (CommonLit) (Pair w/"Morality as Anti-Nature")

• “Opposing Innovation” by Mike Kubic (CommonLit)

• “Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison” by Michel Martin (CommonLit)

• “The Destinies of Two Men Who Share One Name” by Michelle Block and Michel Norris (CommonLit) (Pair w/"Invictus")

• “The Elements of Success” by Mike Kubic (CommonLit) (Pair w/"Exceprt from 'Self-Reliance'")

• “The Myth of the College Dropout” by Jonathan Wai and Heiner Rindermann (CommonLit)

• “What Fear Can Teach Us” by Karen Thompson Walker (CommonLit)

at least 8-12

at least 2-4

at least 2

• Simple Weekly Planner

• ELA Lesson Plan Template

• Extended Text Planner

• Writing Task Planner

• Grades 6-8 ELA Language Expectations 

• Grades 9-12 ELA Language Expectations