Language Arts Grade 11
Scope and Sequence
LANGUAGE ARTS
Grade 11
| Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | |
| Unit Titles | What is America? | What does it mean to be an American? | What are the values that make us American? | How do an individual's values and voice shape America? |
| Learning Outcomes Reading Strategies in Context |
Students will maintain reading journal.
--- Review and show mastery of all grade 9 & 10 strategies --- Reading/writing connection --- Critical reading |
Students will maintain reading journal.
. --- All marking period 1 strategies. --- Critical theory: --- Reading w/ different lenses |
Students will maintain reading journal.
--- All marking period 1 & 2 strategies. |
Students will maintain reading journal.
--- All marking period 1 & 2 strategies. |
| Learning Outcomes Writing Strategies in Context |
Students will maintain working portfolio.
--- For all formal papers, use the writing process: Prewriting Drafting Conferencing Revising Proofreading Publishing --- Include textual support. --- Use rubrics to self-assess. --- Address the indicated revision and proofreading areas in all formal writing. |
Students will maintain working portfolio.
--- For all formal papers, use the writing process: Prewriting Drafting Conferencing Revising Proofreading Publishing --- Include textual support. --- Use rubrics to self-assess. --- Address the indicated revision and proofreading areas in all formal writing. |
Students will maintain working portfolio.
--- For all formal papers, use the writing process: Prewriting Drafting Conferencing Revising Proofreading Publishing --- Include textual support. --- Use rubrics to self-assess. --- Address the indicated revision and proofreading areas in all formal writing. |
Students will maintain working portfolio.
. --- For all formal papers, use the writing process: Prewriting Drafting Conferencing Revising Proofreading Publishing --- Include textual support. --- Use rubrics to self-assess. --- Address the indicated revision and proofreading areas in all formal writing. --- Generate a showcase portfolio. |
| Learning Outcomes Revision Areas in Context |
Mastery of
all Grade 9 & 10 areas |
Mastery of all grade 9 & 10 areas
--- Varied sentence beginnings using prepositional phrases, participial phrases, adjective/adverb clauses --- More powerful, more focused thesis statements |
Mastery of all grade 9 & 10 areas
--- Varied sentence beginnings using prepositional phrases, participial phrases, adjective/adverb clauses --- More powerful, more focused thesis statements --- Sensory detail |
Mastery of all grade 9 & 10 areas
--- Varied sentence beginnings using prepositional phrases, participial phrases, adjective/adverb clauses --- More powerful, more focused thesis statements --- Sensory detail |
| Proofreading Areas in Context | ~Individual’s area of need
~Class’s area of need ~Mastery of all Grade 9 & 10 areas |
~All Grade 9 & 10 areas
~Punctuation: single quotation marks parentheses, brackets ~Active voice ~Parallelism |
~All Grade 9 & 10 areas
~Punctuation: single quotation marks parentheses, brackets ~Active voice ~Parallelism |
~All Grade 9 & 10 areas
~Punctuation: single quotation marks parentheses, brackets ~Active voice ~Parallelism |
| Significant Task | 1) Composing a
Personal Essay 2) Composing a Comparative Literary Analysis |
3) Critical Literacy:
Empowering Ourselves 4) The Critical Analysis Paper |
5) Making Student Voices
Heard through Text Connections 6) The Research Paper |
7) Using the Reading/
Writing Connection to Explore American Values 8) American Identity And Values in Speech |
| Content
Supporting Materials |
~American Literature
~Novels ~Drama ~Poems ~Nonfiction ~Multicultural literature |
~American Literature
~Novels ~Drama ~Poems ~Nonfiction ~Multicultural literature |
~American Literature
~Novels ~Drama ~Poems ~Nonfiction ~Multicultural literature ~Shakespeare play |
~American Literature
~Novels ~Drama ~Poems ~Nonfiction ~Multicultural literature ~Momentous speeches |
| Portfolio
Pieces |
Significant Tasks
1 & 2 --- Quarterly Assessment 1 SAT-like Test Topic: Happiness thru serving others --- Marking Period 1 Self-evaluation/ reflection |
Significant Tasks
3 & 4 --- Quarterly Assessment 2 SAT-like Test Topic: Success spoils people --- Marking Period 2 Self-evaluation/ reflection |
Significant Tasks
5 & 6 --- Quarterly Assessment 3 SAT-like Test Topic: TBD --- Marking Period 3 Self-evaluation/ reflection |
Significant Tasks
7 & 8 --- Quarterly Assessment 4 SAT-like Test Topic: TBD --- Marking Period 4 Self-evaluation/ reflection |