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1	Unit 1 Foundations and Encounters: Early American Literature
Analyze & Apply
The World on the Turtle's Back
The World on the Turtle's Back

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use the correct homophone
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use the correct homophone

Balboa
Balboa

Get Ready & Read:		1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Analyze short stories: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Analyze short stories: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Conventions 2. Form the perfect verb tenses
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Conventions 2. Form the perfect verb tenses

A Desperate Trek Across America
A Desperate Trek Across America

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions Conventions 2. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions Conventions 2. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

New Orleans
New Orleans

Get Ready & Read:		1. Interpret the figure of speech
Get Ready & Read:
1. Interpret the figure of speech
Respond:		1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Respond:
1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Collaborate & Compare: Synthesize Information
Coming of Age in the Dawnland
Coming of Age in the Dawnland

Get Ready & Read:		1. Determine the main idea of a passage
Get Ready & Read:
1. Determine the main idea of a passage
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses

from Of Plymouth Plantation
from Of Plymouth Plantation

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify audience and purpose
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify audience and purpose
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Explore words with new or contested usages Conventions 2. Identify active and passive voice
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Explore words with new or contested usages Conventions 2. Identify active and passive voice
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Poems
Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666; World, in hounding me . . .
Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666; World, in hounding me . . .

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify elements of poetry
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify elements of poetry
Respond:		1. Compare passages for tone
Respond:
1. Compare passages for tone
End of Unit Tasks
Write an informative essay		1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 4. Rewrite the sentence in active voice 5. Use the correct frequently confused word 6. Correct errors with signs
Write an informative essay
1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 4. Rewrite the sentence in active voice 5. Use the correct frequently confused word 6. Correct errors with signs

2	Unit 2 Building a Democracy: The Revolutionary Period
Analyze & Apply
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects Conventions 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects Conventions 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure

One Today
One Today

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify elements of poetry
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify elements of poetry
Respond:		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Respond:
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source

American Experience: Alexander Hamilton
American Experience: Alexander Hamilton

Respond:		1. Determine the main idea of a passage
Respond:
1. Determine the main idea of a passage

Thomas Jefferson: The Best of Enemies
Thomas Jefferson: The Best of Enemies

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Replace words using a thesaurus 2. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage Conventions 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Replace words using a thesaurus 2. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage Conventions 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives

A Soldier for the Crown
A Soldier for the Crown

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify the narrative point of view
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify the narrative point of view
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Suffixes 2. Prefixes Conventions 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Suffixes 2. Prefixes Conventions 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement

from The Autobiography
from The Autobiography

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots Conventions 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 3. Commas with compound and complex sentences
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots Conventions 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 3. Commas with compound and complex sentences
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Themes
On Being Brought from Africa to America; Sympathy
On Being Brought from Africa to America; Sympathy

Respond:		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Respond:
1. Match the quotations with their themes
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Tone
from Lean In; Letter to John Adams
from Lean In; Letter to John Adams

Get Ready & Read:		1. Which text is most formal?
Get Ready & Read:
1. Which text is most formal?
Respond:		1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Respond:
1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
End of Unit Tasks
Write a research report		1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 4. Use dashes 5. Identify plagiarism 6. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 7. Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 8. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Write a research report
1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 4. Use dashes 5. Identify plagiarism 6. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 7. Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 8. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)

3	Unit 3 The Individual and Society: Literature of the American Renaissance
Analyze & Apply
from Song of Myself
from Song of Myself

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement

My Friend Walt Whitman
My Friend Walt Whitman

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Which text is most formal?
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Which text is most formal?

Poems by Emily Dickinson
Poems by Emily Dickinson

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Respond:		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Respond:
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

In the Season of Change
In the Season of Change

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify the figure of speech: review
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify the figure of speech: review
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Main Ideas
from Last Child in the Woods; from Walden
from Last Child in the Woods; from Walden

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Conventions 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Conventions 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Themes
The Minister's Black Veil
The Minister's Black Veil

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Describe the difference between related words Conventions 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Describe the difference between related words Conventions 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases

The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher

Get Ready & Read:		1. Compare passages for tone
Get Ready & Read:
1. Compare passages for tone
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Word pattern analogies 2. Word pattern sentences Conventions 3. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 5. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Word pattern analogies 2. Word pattern sentences Conventions 3. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 5. Combine sentences using relative clauses
End of Unit Tasks
Write an explanatory essay		1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 3. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 4. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas 5. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series 6. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words 7. Correct errors in everyday use
Write an explanatory essay
1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 3. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 4. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas 5. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series 6. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words 7. Correct errors in everyday use

4	Unit 4 The Quest for Freedom: The Civil War and Its Aftermath
Analyze & Apply
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary entries Conventions 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary entries Conventions 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

To My Old Master
To My Old Master

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Is it a phrase or a clause?
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Is it a phrase or a clause?

Aftermath of the Civil War
Aftermath of the Civil War

Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Conventions 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Conventions 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Conventions 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 3. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences 4. Commas with coordinate adjectives
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Conventions 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 3. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences 4. Commas with coordinate adjectives

Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Conventions 2. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 3. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 4. Are the modifiers used correctly?
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Conventions 2. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 3. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 4. Are the modifiers used correctly?
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Arguments
Declaration of Sentiments; Speech to the American Equal Rights Association
Declaration of Sentiments; Speech to the American Equal Rights Association

Get Ready & Read:		1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim
Get Ready & Read:
1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Suffixes Conventions 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Suffixes Conventions 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses

Compare arguments		1. Trace an argument: set 1
Compare arguments
1. Trace an argument: set 1
Collaborate & Compare: Compare Structure
Runagate Runagate
Runagate Runagate

Get Ready & Read:		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Get Ready & Read:
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Respond:		1. Recall the source of an allusion
Respond:
1. Recall the source of an allusion

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Conventions 2. Which text is most formal? 3. Interpret the figure of speech
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Conventions 2. Which text is most formal? 3. Interpret the figure of speech
End of Unit Tasks
Write an argument		1. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 2. Evaluate counterclaims 3. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 4. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 5. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions 6. Remove redundant words or phrases
Write an argument
1. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 2. Evaluate counterclaims 3. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 4. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 5. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions 6. Remove redundant words or phrases

5	Unit 5 America Transformed: An Age of Realism
Analyze & Apply
To Build a Fire
To Build a Fire

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Conventions 2. Identify sentence fragments
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Conventions 2. Identify sentence fragments

The Lowest Animal
The Lowest Animal

Get Ready & Read:		1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Get Ready & Read:
1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use words accurately and precisely 2. Describe the difference between related words Conventions 3. Use parallel structure
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use words accurately and precisely 2. Describe the difference between related words Conventions 3. Use parallel structure

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Here. Are You Ready?
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Here. Are You Ready?

Get Ready & Read:		1. Trace an argument: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Trace an argument: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 2. Correct capitalization errors
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 2. Correct capitalization errors

The Story of an Hour
The Story of an Hour

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Identify and correct errors with homophones Conventions 2. What does the punctuation suggest?
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Identify and correct errors with homophones Conventions 2. What does the punctuation suggest?

Chicago
Chicago

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify elements of poetry
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify elements of poetry
Respond:		1. Compare passages for tone
Respond:
1. Compare passages for tone
Collaborate & Compare
from The Jungle
from The Jungle

Get Ready & Read:		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Get Ready & Read:
1. Match the quotations with their themes
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Conventions 2. Identify prepositional phrases
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Conventions 2. Identify prepositional phrases

Food Production Design from Fast Food Nation
Food Production Design from Fast Food Nation

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Word pattern sentences Conventions 2. Use dashes
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Word pattern sentences Conventions 2. Use dashes
End of Unit Tasks
Write a short story		1. Formatting quotations and dialogue 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Use personification 4. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words 5. Suggest appropriate revisions
Write a short story
1. Formatting quotations and dialogue 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Use personification 4. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words 5. Suggest appropriate revisions

6	Unit 6 Modern and Contemporary Voices: The Modern Period to the Present Day
Analyze & Apply
A Rose for Emily
A Rose for Emily

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use the correct foreign expression Conventions 2. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use the correct foreign expression Conventions 2. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review

Mending Wall
Mending Wall

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify elements of poetry
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify elements of poetry

from They Called Us Enemy
from They Called Us Enemy

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify audience and purpose
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify audience and purpose

The Crucible
The Crucible

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Interpret the figure of speech 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Interpret the figure of speech 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew
My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew

Get Ready & Read:		1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Get Ready & Read:
1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Conventions 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Conventions 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses

The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify the figure of speech: review
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify the figure of speech: review

Speech on the Vietnam, 1967
Speech on the Vietnam, 1967

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Word pattern analogies
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Word pattern analogies

Ambush
Ambush

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Replace words using a thesaurus Conventions 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Replace words using a thesaurus Conventions 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

The Universe as Primal Scream
The Universe as Primal Scream

Get Ready & Read:		1. Recall the source of an allusion
Get Ready & Read:
1. Recall the source of an allusion

First Verse
First Verse

Get Ready & Read:		1. Compare passages for tone
Get Ready & Read:
1. Compare passages for tone
Collaborate & Compare
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 2. Identify sentence fragments 3. Identify run-on sentences
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 2. Identify sentence fragments 3. Identify run-on sentences

from The Warmth of Other Suns
from The Warmth of Other Suns

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Conventions 2. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Conventions 2. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
End of Unit Tasks
Write a personal narrative		1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Identify active and passive voice 3. Correct errors in everyday use 4. Suggest appropriate revisions
Write a personal narrative
1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Identify active and passive voice 3. Correct errors in everyday use 4. Suggest appropriate revisions

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