By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including
stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text
complexity band independently and proficiently.
| Course Number1111 |
Course Title222 |
| 1000400: | Intensive Language Arts (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated)) |
| 1000410: | Intensive Reading (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021 (course terminated)) |
| 1001380: | English Honors 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001410: | English Honors 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001460: | Applied Communications 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001470: | Applied Communications 2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001480: | Communications Methodology Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002320: | English 3 Through ESOL (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002520: | English 4 Through ESOL (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002380: | English Language Development (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1004300: | Semantics and Logic Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2019, 2019 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005300: | World Literature (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005310: | American Literature (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005330: | Contemporary Literature (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005340: | Classical Literature (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005360: | Literature and the Arts 2 Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005365: | Literature in the Media Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1020810: | American Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1020820: | British Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2020 (course terminated)) |
| 1020830: | Classical Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1020840: | Contemporary Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1020850: | World Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1020860: | Great Books Honors (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1008330: | Reading 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021 (course terminated)) |
| 1009350: | Play Writing (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001370: | English 3 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001400: | English 4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 7910112: | Access English 3/4 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018 (course terminated)) |
| 1001375: | English 3 for Credit Recovery (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1001402: | English 4 for Credit Recovery (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1002325: | English 3 Through ESOL for Credit Recovery (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2020 (course terminated)) |
| 1002525: | English 4 Through ESOL for Credit Recovery (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2020 (course terminated)) |
| 1002381: | Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL (Reading) (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 7910125: | Access English 2 (Specifically in versions: 2013 - 2015, 2015 - 2017, 2017 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 7910130: | Access English 3 (Specifically in versions: 2013 - 2015, 2015 - 2017, 2017 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005312: | Modern Literature (Specifically in versions: 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005311: | Ancient Literature (Specifically in versions: 2015 - 2021 (course terminated)) |
| 7910135: | Access English 4 (Specifically in versions: 2017 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1020870: | Ancient Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005320: | British Literature (Specifically in versions: 2018 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005351: | Humane Letters 3 Literature (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005352: | Humane Letters 3 Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005353: | Humane Letters 4 Literature (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 1005354: | Humane Letters 4 Literature Honors (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
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Description |
| Views on Death: A Look at Two Holy Sonnets by John Donne | In this lesson, students will read and analyze two poems by John Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" and "Holy Sonnet VI." Text-dependent questions, an answer key, and teacher's help notes are included. As the summative assessment for the lesson, students will write a brief comparison/contrast essay to examine how Death is portrayed across both poems. A rubric for the essay is included, along with a writing organizer to help struggling writers draft a basic essay.
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| The Modernist Struggle: Allusions, Images, and Emotions in T. S. Eliot’s Prufrock | Students will research modernism, analyze allusions and images in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," diagnose the character's mental weakness using evidence from the poem, and write him an email about how to improve his state of mind from the perspective of a hypothetical online mental health professional. |
| Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature | Huck Finn's moral journey parallels Mark Twain's own questions about slavery. Like the photographers of the nineteenth-century, Twain, a Realist, struggled with how best to portray fictionalized characters, while still expressing truth and creating social commentary. In this lesson, students use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Mark Twain's novel and/or excerpts from Frederick Doulgass' narrative to original photographs of slaves from the late-nineteenth century. Then they write an essay to compare the different portrayals, arguing to what extent art can reliably reflect truth. In addition, they will discuss art as social commentary. |
| An Exploration of The Crucible through Seventeenth-Century Portraits | After reading Act 1 of The Crucible in which 13 of the 21 characters are introduced, students create Trading Cards to describe and analyze an assigned character. Then they explore portraits of Puritans online to assist them in creating a portrait of the character and present a rationale to explain their work of art. A "Portrait Gallery" is set up around the classroom, so the students are able to refer to portraits during later acts and better understand the characters' motives and relationships. |
| Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | This lesson plan explores symmetry in the structure and themes of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," delving into the antagonist's representation of the "duality of nature." In examining knightly virtues, students will measure Gawain's strength as the poem's hero. The lesson explains background information that every medieval thinker listening to a performance of the poem would know, in an effort to put the student into the mind-set of the medieval audience, providing a deeper appreciation and understanding of the work. |
| The American Puritan Tradition: Part II | This lesson is part two of a three lesson unit that will explore and analyze how different authors convey American Puritanism. In lessons two of this unit, students will analyze key literary elements and Miller’s use of rhetoric to create mood in the play, "The Crucible." |
| Poetry Analysis and Time Periods | Students will analyze how Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson each used figurative language to develop a specific tone in relation to mortality. They will also consider how each poet reflected the time periods within which they wrote. |
| Close Reading Poetry Analysis Lesson 1: Figurative Language Creates Tone | Students will identify and analyze how Emily Dickinson uses figurative language to create tone. Students will complete text marking and annotations to show their analysis and will write a response that explains their analysis. |
| Dealing with Grief: A Comparison of Tone and Theme | In this four-part lesson series, students will delve into the topic of grief through analysis of poetic devices, form, and point of view in poems by Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Students will connect theme to the poets’ viewpoints on the emotions, or the lack thereof, that one experiences during times of pain and loss. Students will read the poems multiple times to seek layers of meaning and write an in-depth analysis. |
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Description |
| Reading into Words with Multiple Meanings | Explore Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" and examine words, phrases, and lines with multiple meanings. In this interactive tutorial, you'll analyze how these multiple meanings can affect a reader’s interpretation of the poem. |
| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Four | Having studied two key topics in excerpts from the classic novel Pride and Prejudice in previous parts of this tutorial series, in Part Four you will use these topics and textual details from the novel to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete the previous parts of this series before beginning Part Four.
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| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Three | Continue to explore two key topics in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters’ actions as they relate to these topics in Part Three of this four-part series. By the end of this series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete all four parts of the series!
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| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Two | Explore two key topics (first impressions and self-awareness) in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters’ actions as they relate to these topics. This tutorial is Part Two in a four-part series. By the end of this tutorial series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete all four parts of the series.
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| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part One | Explore two key topics in excerpts from Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters’ actions as they relate to these topics in Part One of this four-part interactive tutorial series. By the end of this series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel and analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Click below to complete all four parts of the series.
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| Exploring Beneath the Surface: Irony in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (Part Two) | Learn how to identify use of verbal and dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in this interactive two-part tutorial. Students will also examine how Poe's use of irony with first person point of view affects the story. This tutorial is Part Two of a two-part series. In Part One, students read and analyzed the first two excerpts from the story. In Part Two, students will read and analyze the last three excerpts from the story.
Make sure to complete Part One first! Click HERE to complete Part One. |
| Exploring Beneath the Surface: Irony in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (Part 1 of 2) | Learn how to identify use of verbal and dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in this interactive two-part tutorial. You'll also examine how Poe's use of irony with first person point of view affects the story. You'll read and analyze the first two excerpts from the story in Part One, and the last three excerpts from the story in Part Two.
Be sure to complete Part One first. Click HERE to open Part Two. |
| Hurston and Hughes: Analyzing Topics and Themes (Part 1 of 2) | Learn about two significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neal Hurston and Langston Hughes. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts of texts from each author. In Part One, you'll practice identifying topics and determining themes using Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. In Part Two, you'll read Hughes' poem "Freedom's Plow" to compare and contrast the authors' treatment of a similar topic and theme.
Click here to launch PART TWO.
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Description |
| Reading into Words with Multiple Meanings: | Explore Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" and examine words, phrases, and lines with multiple meanings. In this interactive tutorial, you'll analyze how these multiple meanings can affect a reader’s interpretation of the poem. |
| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Four: | Having studied two key topics in excerpts from the classic novel Pride and Prejudice in previous parts of this tutorial series, in Part Four you will use these topics and textual details from the novel to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete the previous parts of this series before beginning Part Four.
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| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Three: | Continue to explore two key topics in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters’ actions as they relate to these topics in Part Three of this four-part series. By the end of this series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete all four parts of the series!
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| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Two: | Explore two key topics (first impressions and self-awareness) in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters’ actions as they relate to these topics. This tutorial is Part Two in a four-part series. By the end of this tutorial series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete all four parts of the series.
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| Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part One: | Explore two key topics in excerpts from Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters’ actions as they relate to these topics in Part One of this four-part interactive tutorial series. By the end of this series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel and analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Click below to complete all four parts of the series.
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| Exploring Beneath the Surface: Irony in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (Part Two): | Learn how to identify use of verbal and dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in this interactive two-part tutorial. Students will also examine how Poe's use of irony with first person point of view affects the story. This tutorial is Part Two of a two-part series. In Part One, students read and analyzed the first two excerpts from the story. In Part Two, students will read and analyze the last three excerpts from the story.
Make sure to complete Part One first! Click HERE to complete Part One. |
| Exploring Beneath the Surface: Irony in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (Part 1 of 2): | Learn how to identify use of verbal and dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in this interactive two-part tutorial. You'll also examine how Poe's use of irony with first person point of view affects the story. You'll read and analyze the first two excerpts from the story in Part One, and the last three excerpts from the story in Part Two.
Be sure to complete Part One first. Click HERE to open Part Two. |
| Hurston and Hughes: Analyzing Topics and Themes (Part 1 of 2): | Learn about two significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neal Hurston and Langston Hughes. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts of texts from each author. In Part One, you'll practice identifying topics and determining themes using Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. In Part Two, you'll read Hughes' poem "Freedom's Plow" to compare and contrast the authors' treatment of a similar topic and theme.
Click here to launch PART TWO.
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