PVREC Language Team

Pacing the Pens, Prose, and Poetry of High School English Classes

PVREC Language Team

Vision:

The PVREC8 districts will have a vertically aligned curricular matrix with incorporating a resource bank supporting common grade level exit skills.

PVREC Language Team

Goal:

By the end of the 2009-2010 school year the PVREC8 Language Arts teams will have a vertical alignment curriculum plan recommended to the district superintendents.

PVREC Language Team

Mission:

We will: R – researchA – alignS – supportP - provide.

Steps in the Process

Grade Level Novel List created

Grade Level Umbrella created

Alignment of old standards to new standards (Language Arts went from 9 standards to 86 standards)

Grade Level Pacing Guides (9 wks)

12th Grade Umbrella

•Short story•Poetry•Novel Unit•Nonfiction•Historical documents •Definition•Compare and contrast•Cause and effect•Analysis•Research•Group presentations•Visual literacy

1st Nine Weeks

2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks

•Primary sources

•Essays

•Op-eds

•Real-world texts

•Problem and solution

•Rhetoric

•Presentations

•Power Points

•Debate

•Informational texts

•Nonfiction books

•Paraphrasing

•Summarizing

•Technical texts

•Job-related texts

•Interviews

•Drama

•Nonfiction

•Skits

•Technical texts

•Interior Monologues

•Soliloquies

•Skits

•Visual Media

11th Grade Umbrella

•Paraphrasing

•Summarizing

•Novel Study

•Short Story

•Research

•Writing types

•Critical Response

•Persuasive

•Group presentation

1st Nine Weeks

2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks

•Nonfiction

•Rhetoric and Analysis

•Poetry

•Opposing argument

•Rhetoric and analysis

•Debate

•Poetry Presentation

•Informational Text

•Biography

•Fact and opinion

•Technical Texts

•Research Presentation

•Opinion and analysis

•Narrative

•Drama

•Monologue

•Soliloquy

•Drama skits

10th Grade Umbrella

•Anthology•Nonfiction•Short Story•Sentence Structure & Types•Punctuation•Paragraph Development•Types of Writing•Format •Writing Process•Research •Debate•Persuasive Speech

1st Nine Weeks

2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks

•Poetry (STAR)•Literary Terms•Literary Types•Novel Unit•Creative writing•Compare & Contrast •Analysis•Interpretive Essays•Tone•Listening skills•Presentations

•Speech•Personal Autobiography•Biography•Narrative •Informative•Graphs and decoding•ACE•Persuasive •Current Events•Newspaper•Socratic Seminar

•Novel Unit•Drama•Narrative•Monologue•Soliloquy•Paraphrase

9th Grade Umbrella

•Propaganda

•Foundational literature

•Short story

•Novel unit

•Imaginative texts

•Literary analysis

•Narrative

•Research

1st Nine Weeks

2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks

•Visual media

•Nonfiction

•Poetry

•Argument

•Paraphrase

•Summarize

•Response to literature

•Persuasive

•Nonfiction articles

•On-line journals

•Cause and effect

•Compare and contrast

•Debate

•Cooperative groups

•Drama

•Short story

•Poetry

•Response to literature

•Literary analysis

•Creative writing

•Projects

•Soliloquy

•Monologue

Next Steps in the Process

End of Course - Exit Skills List

ON-Line Courses for necessary repeats

Unit Plans – HSTW (copy provided)

Chanda Crandall, Dexter** Darla Autry, Loving Jason Everitt, Dexter Judy Kerby, Loving Kesha Miles, Dexter Tammie Hardt, Dexter Justin Terry, Lake Arthur

** Language Arts team leader.

Language Arts Consortium Team