Grade 11 Unit 1 [NEW]

Daily / On Going

• SVVSD Routine Writing Handbook

• • The Four-Choice Journal

  • Reader’s Notebook

  • Daybook

  • Interactive Notebook

On-Demand: Personal Narrative  (doc)

On-Demand: Informative/Explanatory (doc)

On-Demand: Argument: Text Analysis (doc)

Summative Assessment: Personal Narrative (doc)

Summative Assessment: Informative/Explanatory (doc)

Summative Assessment: Argument: Text Analysis (doc)

at least 2

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Series, Book 2 by Mark Twain 

• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Duma

• Issac’s Storm by Erik Larson

• Kindred by Octavia Butler

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• Othello by William Shakespeare

• Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

• Sophie’s World by Josten Gaarder

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• Any text by Louise Erdrich

at least 4-6

• “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor 

• “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez

• “Excerpt from 'Civil Disobedience'” by Henry David Thoreau 

• “Excerpt from The Prince” by Niccoló Machiavelli 

• “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Pair w/ “Allegory of the Cave”) *Must login to CommonLit to view text.

• “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell 

• “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston 

• "Testimonial” by Edwidge Danticat

• “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” by Tupac Sakur (Pair w/ “Frida Kahlo”)

• “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 

at least 2-4

• “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato (Pair w/"Letter from Birmingham Jail")

• “Can Machines Learn Morality?” by Randy Rieland 

• “Frida Kahlo”by Jessica McBirney (Pair w/"The Rose That Grew from Concrete")

• “Making College Matter” by Leo M. Lambert & Peter Felton

• “Manifest Destiny” by Mike Kubic

• “Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature” by David Hume

• The Salem (and Other) Witch Hunts” by Mike Kubic (Pair w/ “Why I Love the Country that Once Betrayed Me”)

• “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” by United Nations General Assembly

• “What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?” by Melissa Dittman

• “Why I Love the Country that Once Betrayed Me” by George Takei (Pair w/"The Salem (and Other) Witch Hunts")

at least 8-12

• Informative: Ethics in Action (doc)

• Informative: Institutional Impacts on Goodness (doc)

• Argument: Children's Book Review (doc)

• Argument: Analyzing Two Philosophies (doc)

• Argument: The Cost of Being "Good" (doc)

• Argument: Intentions vs Outcomes (doc)

at least 2-4

Personal: Who Do You Want Me to Be (doc)

Personal: My Line in the Sand (doc)

Personal: The Pressure to Follow (doc)

Fiction: Children's Short Story (doc)

at least 2

• Blitz: Identifying an Institutions Purpose (doc)

• Blitz: The Goodness Portfolio (doc)

• 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