*Subject to change per teacher discretion as needed
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
Unit 1 Theme: We All Need Someone to Lean On
Short Stories: "Raymond's Run" Bambara, "Mrs. Flowers" Angelou, "Flowers for Algernon" Keyes
Poems: "Still I Rise" and "Caged Bird" Angelou, "Sympathy" Dunbar "If" Kipling, "The Road Not Taken" and "Wind and Window Flower" Frost, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Wordsworth
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Personal Narrative, Reader's Response, Essay
Projects: Mini-Morphology, Group Poetry Presentation
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
Unit 2 Theme: Generation to Generation
Short Stories: "Treasure of Lemon Brown" Myers, "Wise Old Woman"
Poems: "The Courage My Mother Had" Millay "Legacy II" Quintana, "Secret Heart" Coffin
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Reader's Response, Patriot's Pen Essay, Figurative Language Song Analysis
Projects: Generations Research Presentation
JANUARY-FEBRUARY
Unit 3 Theme: Historical Literature
Speeches: "I Have a Dream" King, "Gettysburg Address" Lincoln
Poems: Various Langston Hughes poems, "O'Captain! My Captain!" Whitman
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Reader's Response, Escaping Slavery Narrative, Speech Comparison Essay
Project: Web Quests (Underground Railroad, Civil Rights, WWII-Holocaust-Anne Frank)
MARCH
Unit 4 Theme: Controversial Issues
Reading Selections: Multiple nonfiction articles
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing: Argumentative Essay
Project: Research Report
APRIL-MAY
Unit 5 Theme: Strange and Mysterious
Short Stories: "The Landlady" Dahl, "The Monkey's Paw" Jacobs, "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe, "There Will Come Soft Rains" Bradbury
Poems: "There Will Come Soft Rains" Teasdale, "The Raven" Poe
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Various RAFT writing assignments
Project: News Broadcast Group Video
JUNE
Review and Final Exam
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
Unit 1 Theme: We All Need Someone to Lean On
Short Stories: "Raymond's Run" Bambara, "Mrs. Flowers" Angelou, "Flowers for Algernon" Keyes
Poems: "Still I Rise" and "Caged Bird" Angelou, "Sympathy" Dunbar "If" Kipling, "The Road Not Taken" and "Wind and Window Flower" Frost, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Wordsworth
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Personal Narrative, Reader's Response, Essay
Projects: Mini-Morphology, Group Poetry Presentation
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
Unit 2 Theme: Generation to Generation
Short Stories: "Treasure of Lemon Brown" Myers, "Wise Old Woman"
Poems: "The Courage My Mother Had" Millay "Legacy II" Quintana, "Secret Heart" Coffin
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Reader's Response, Patriot's Pen Essay, Figurative Language Song Analysis
Projects: Generations Research Presentation
JANUARY-FEBRUARY
Unit 3 Theme: Historical Literature
Speeches: "I Have a Dream" King, "Gettysburg Address" Lincoln
Poems: Various Langston Hughes poems, "O'Captain! My Captain!" Whitman
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Reader's Response, Escaping Slavery Narrative, Speech Comparison Essay
Project: Web Quests (Underground Railroad, Civil Rights, WWII-Holocaust-Anne Frank)
MARCH
Unit 4 Theme: Controversial Issues
Reading Selections: Multiple nonfiction articles
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing: Argumentative Essay
Project: Research Report
APRIL-MAY
Unit 5 Theme: Strange and Mysterious
Short Stories: "The Landlady" Dahl, "The Monkey's Paw" Jacobs, "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe, "There Will Come Soft Rains" Bradbury
Poems: "There Will Come Soft Rains" Teasdale, "The Raven" Poe
Novels: Independent Reading
Writing Assignments: Various RAFT writing assignments
Project: News Broadcast Group Video
JUNE
Review and Final Exam