1st & 5th Periods

Current Unit

Unit 2: Uncovering Truth

Essential Question: How do challenges cause us to reveal our true selves?

Genre Focus: Fiction

StudySync Unit 2:

• Beowulf (A Graphic Novel)

• Beowulf (lines 144-300)

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage

• Hamlet and His Problems

• Hamlet

Unit 2 Skills:

• Academic Vocabulary 

• Media

• Word Patterns and Relationships

• Central or Main Idea

• Connotation and Denotation

• Informational Text Elements

• Dramatic Elements and Structure

• Language, Style, and Audience

Past Units

Unit 1: What's Next?

Essential Question: How can we transform the future?

Genre Focus: Informational Text

Activities:

• career exploration

• resume

• cover letter

• interview

StudySync Unit 1:

• Are the New ‘Golden Age’ TV Shows the New Novels? 

• The Big Idea: How can we transform the future? 

• Community Colleges vs. Technical Schools

• Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

• The Metamorphosis 

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

• We Choose to Go to the Moon

• How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked

• Commencement Address at Wellesley College

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Unit 1 Skills:

• Annotation

• Context Clues

• Reading Comprehension

• Text Dependent Responses

• Textual Evidence

• Informational Text Elements

• Collaborative Conversations

• Short Constructed Responses

• Peer Review

• Recognizing Genre: Informational Text

• Academic Vocabulary

• Informational Text Structure

• Central or Main Idea

• Compare and Contrast

• Story Structure

• Connotation and Denotation

• Author’s Purpose and Point of View

• Rhetoric

• Arguments and Claims

• Reasons and Evidence

• Technical Language

• Timed Writing 

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