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Literary Termsgenrepoint of
viewdenotationconnotationstanzanarrativesensory detailsfigurative
languagecharacterizationmythplotsymbolsymbolismobjective camera
anglesubjective camera angle
aCadeMIC voCabULarycoherence external coherence internal
coherence thememetaphor
ContentsActivity 1.1 Previewing the Unit
......................................................... 4
Introducing the Strategy: Think-Pair-Share
Activity 1.2 Exploring the Concept of Choice
..................................... 5
Activity 1.3 Choices and Consequences: Paired Poetry
..................... 9 Poem: The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
Poem: Choices, by Nikki Giovanni
Activity 1.4 Exploring the Personal Narrative
...................................14 Novel Excerpt: from Staying
Fat for Sarah Byrnes,
by Chris Crutcher Introducing the Strategy: Metacognitive
Markers
Activity 1.5 Analyzing Incident, Response, Reflection
......................18 Autobiography: from Dust Tracks on a Road,
by Zora
Neale Hurston
Activity 1.6 Analyzing Language
.......................................................21 Memoir:
from Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers
Activity 1.7 Timed Writing: Choosing a Topic and Drafting a
Personal Narrative
........................................................ 28
Activity 1.8 Once Upon a Time: Revising the Beginning
...................31
Activity 1.9 Can You Sense It? Revising the Middle
......................... 33 Essay: Why Couldnt I Have Been Named
Ashley? By
Imma Achilike Introducing the Strategy: Looping
Activity 1.10 Tie it Together: Revising the Ending
.............................. 39
Embedded Assessment 1 Revising a Personal Narrative About Choice
...............................................41
Activity 1.11 Previewing Embedded Assessment 2: Expanding
Narrative Writing ..........................................43
Activity 1.12 Poor Choices: Phaethon
.............................................47 Myth: Phaethon, by
Bernard Evslin
Activity 1.13 Flight to Freedom
...........................................................59 Myth:
Daedalus and Icarus, by Geraldine McCaughrean Introducing the
Strategy: Diffusing
Activity 1.14 A Matter of Pride
........................................................... 64
Myth: Arachne, by Olivia E. Coolidge
GoaLs To analyze genres and their
organizational structures
To examine the function of narrative elements
To apply techniques to create coherence and sentence variety in
writing
To apply revision techniques in preparing drafts for
publication
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Language and Writers CraftVerb Tenses 1.5Creating Coherence and
Sentence Variety 1.6Punctuating Coordinate Adjectives 1.9Pronouns
and Antecedents 1.14
Activity 1.15 Symbolic Thinking
......................................................... 68
Activity 1.16 Animals as Symbols: Aesops Fables
.............................71 Fable: Aesops The Lion, the Fox,
and the Stag
Activity 1.17 Analyzing Visual Techniques
........................................... 4 *Film Clip: The
Mighty, directed by Peter Chelsom
Activity 1.18 Creation Myths from Around the Globe
........................ 77 Nonfiction: from A Note from the
Author, by Virginia
Hamilton Myth: Huveane and Clay People, from Voices of the
Ancestors: African Myth, by Tony Allan, Fergus Fleming, and Charles
Phillips Myth: Mbombo, from Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth,
by Tony Allan, Fergus Fleming, and Charles PhillipsMyth: Raven and
the Sources of Light, by Donna Rosenberg
Embedded Assessment 2 Creating an Illustrated Myth
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ContentsActivity 2.1 Previewing the Unit
....................................................... 88Activity
2.2 What Is the Issue?
......................................................... 89
Informational Text: $211 Billon and So Much to BuyAmerican
Youths, the New Big Spenders
Activity 2.3 Analyzing Informational Text
........................................ 93 Informational Text:
Facts About Marketing to Children,
The Center for a New American Dream
Activity 2.4 How Do They Do It? Analyzing Ads
............................... 99Activity 2.5 Advertising for All
........................................................103Activity
2.6 Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They? ..............107
Online Text: Responsible Marketing, Coca Cola
Activity 2.7 Gathering Evidence from a Film: Part One
...................114
*Film Documentary: Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of
Childhood
Activity 2.8 Gathering Evidence from a News Article
.....................116
News Article: Marketing to kids gets more savvy with new
technologies
Activity 2.9 Gathering Evidence from a Film: Part Two
...................122 *Film Documentary: Consuming Kids:
The Commercialization of Childhood
Activity 2.10 Gathering Evidence: Bringing It all Together
...............124
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing an Expository Essay and
Participating in a Collaborative Discussion
...............................................126
Activity 2.11 Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2: Preparing for
Argumentative Writing
...........................................128
Activity 2.12 Which Claims to Believe
..............................................131 Essay: America
the Not-So-Beautiful, by Andrew A. Rooney Introducing the Strategy:
SOAPSTone
Activity 2.13 Exploring and Evaluating Reasons and Evidence
........ 138 Informational Text: Another study highlights the
insanity of selling junk food in school vending machines, by
Karen Kaplan
GoalS: To understand how our lives
are affected by media and advertising
To engage in collaborative discussions
To write an expository essay
To identify and analyze the components of an argument, and
appeals, language, and rhetorical devices in informational and
argumentative texts
To write an argumentative essay
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Activity 2.14 Just the Right Rhetoric: Logical Appeals
.....................145 Speech: Aint I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
Speech: Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference
on Women Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women
Plenary Session (excerpt), by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Activity 2.15 Differing Opinions: Acknowledging Opposing Claims
.........................................................152Online
Article: Failure To Ban Violent Video Games Makes Job Harder For
Parents, by Tamika Mallory News Article: Its Perverse, but Its Also
Pretend, by Cheryl K. Olson
Activity 2.16 To Introduce and Conclude
..........................................158 Essay: Student
Model
Embedded Assessment 2 Writing an Argumentative Essay
..............161
language and Writers CraftActivity 2.4: Revising for Cohesion
and ClarityActivity2.6: Revising for Precise Language and Formal
StyleActivity 2.8: Sentence Variety Activity 2.13: Sentence
Structure and TransitionsActivity 2.14: Using Rhetorical
DevicesActivity 2.15: Phrases and Clauses
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Literary Termsimagerymotifsettingflashbackforeshadowingpoint of
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ContentsActivities:
3.1 Previewing the Unit
......................................................170
3.2 Peeling a
Tangerine......................................................171
3.3 Moving into Tangerine
.................................................173
*Novel: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor Introducing the Strategy:
LEVELS OF QUESTIONING
3.4 Theres a New Kid in Town
...........................................176
3.5 Another Kid, Another Town *Film: Sandlot, directed by David
Mickey Evans ......... 180
3.6 Oh, Brother!
................................................................
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Introducing the Strategy: SHARING AND RESPONDING
3.7 September 11 Perspectives
.........................................187 News Article: A
stunning tale of escape traps its
hero in replay
3.8 SIFTing Through Tangerine
......................................... 192 Introducing the
Strategy: SIFT
3.9 Same Sport, Different School
......................................195
3.10 A Good Sport
...............................................................
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3.11 Seeing is Believing
...................................................... 201
3.12 Conflicts and Consequences
....................................... 204
3.13 Mourning and Night
.....................................................207 Poem: To
an Athlete Dying Young, by A. E. Housman
3.14 The Final
Score............................................................
209
Embedded Assessment 1 Writing a Literary Analysis Essay
.............213
3.15 Previewing Embedded Assessment 2 and Analyzing Words That
Inspire ......................................215
3.16 Nelson Mandela in Hollywood
.....................................217 *Film: Invictus, Directed
by Clint Eastwood
GoaLS: To use textual evidence
to support analysis and inferences
To write a literary analysis essay
To evaluate, analyze, and synthesize a variety of informational
texts
To create and present a biographical research project
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ClausesActivity 3.7 Revising with Coordinating ConjunctionsActivity
3.8 Understanding PhrasesActivity 3.11 Active versus Passive voice
Activity 3.17 Adjectival and Prepositional Phrases Activity 3.21
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
3.17 A Long Walk to Peace
.................................................. 220 Biography:
Nobel Peace Prize Biography of
Nelson Mandela Autobiography: Excerpt from A Long Walk to
Freedom by Nelson Mandela
3.18 Planning for Research and Citing Sources
...................226
3.19 Visual Impact
..............................................................
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3.20 Comparing Text and
Film..............................................235 Poem:
Invictus by William Ernest Henley Nonfiction Text: excerpts from
Playing the Enemy:
Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation by John
Carlin
3.21 Follow the Leader
.........................................................243
Speech: Nelson Mandelas Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance
Speech *Speeches by Great Leaders
Embedded Assessment 2 Creating a Biographical Presentation .....
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ContentsActivity 4.1 Previewing the Unit
..................................................... 248Activity
4.2 Using Language for Effect
............................................249
Poetry: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost
Poetry: maggie and milly and molly and may, by E.E. Cummings
Poetry: Mother to Son, by Langston HughesPoetry: Haikus by Richard
WrightPoetry: It Happened in Montgomery, by Phil W. Petrie
Activity 4.3 Analyzing a Comedic Monologue
.................................257 * Film: Clip from Jerry
Seinfeld: Im Telling You for the
Last Time
Activity 4.4 Analyzing and Presenting a Dramatic Monologue
.......261 Monologue: Eye Contact, by Deborah Karczewski Monologue:
Snob, by Deborah Karczewski Monologue: Roommate, by Deborah
Karczewski Monologue: Mr. Perfect, by Deborah Karczewski Monologue:
Family Addition, by Deborah Karczewski Monologue: Too Young for . .
. , by Deborah Karczewski Monologue: Party, by Deborah
Karczewski
Activity 4.5 Analyzing and Responding to Narrative Poetry
.......... 272 Poetry: The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
Activity 4.6 Transforming a Traditional Tale
................................... 280 Poetry: Little Red Riding
Hood and the Wolf, by
Roald Dahl
Activity 4.7 Analyzing and Transforming Casey at the Bat
..........285 Poetry: Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence
Thayer
Activity 4.8 Using Language to Develop Theme
............................. 292 Informational Text: Outlaws and
Highwaymen
Poetry: The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes
Embedded Assessment 1 Creating and Presenting a Monologue ....
300
Activity 4.9 Previewing Embedded Assessment 2 and Performing
Shakespeare
...............................................................
302
Activity 4.10 Putting on the Mask
.................................................... 304 Poetry: We
Wear the Mask, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Activity 4.11 Improvisation
..............................................................
307
How We Choose to ActUNIT4
GoAls: Toincreasetextualanalysis
skills across genres
Tostrengthenverbalandnonverbal communication skills
Toimproveoralfluencyandpresentation skills
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...................................................................310Drama:
Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare*Film: Twelfth Night, directed
by Trevor Nunn, 1996
Activity 4.13 Acting for Understanding
.............................................313 Drama: Twelfth
Night, by William Shakespeare
Activity 4.14 Interpreting Character in
Performance.........................315 Drama: Twelfth Night, by
William Shakespeare
Activity4.15 ComparingFilmandText
.............................................319 Drama: Twelfth
Night, by William Shakespeare Drama: Twelfth Night, directed by
Trevor Nunn, 1996
Activity 4.16 Stage Directions
.......................................................... 323
Drama: Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare
Activity4.17 ExploringTheatricalElements
.....................................327 Drama: Twelfth Night, by
William Shakespeare *Film: Twelfth Night, directed by Trevor Nunn,
1996
Embedded Assessment 2 Performing a Shakespearean Dialogue
....331
language and Writers Craft4.4VaryingSyntaxforEffect4.7 Dangling
and Misplaced Modifiers
literary Termsoral interpretationrhymerhyme
schemealliterationassonanceconsonancemonologuepersonapantomimesyntaxsimple
sentencescompound sentences complexsentencescompound-complex
sentences poetic devicesinternal rhymeparodyvocal deliveryvisual
deliverydialoguestage directions
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