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Skill plan for myPerspectives Florida - 10th grade

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1	Unit 1 Moving Toward Justice
Whole-Class Learning
Newscast: Remembering Civil Rights History, When "Words Meant Everything"		Analyze and interpret 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Conventions 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Newscast: Remembering Civil Rights History, When "Words Meant Everything"
Analyze and interpret 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Conventions 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

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Compare Within Genre

Speech: "I Have a Dream"		Analyze and interpret 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Interpret figures of speech Study language and craft 3. Identify sentences with parallel structure 4. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Speech: "I Have a Dream"
Analyze and interpret 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Interpret figures of speech Study language and craft 3. Identify sentences with parallel structure 4. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Letter: Letter From Birmingham Jail		Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Trace an argument: set 1 4. Identify audience and purpose 5. Evaluate counterclaims Study language and craft 6. Combine sentences using relative clauses 7. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 8. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Writing to compare 9. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 10. Organize information by topic
Letter: Letter From Birmingham Jail
Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Trace an argument: set 1 4. Identify audience and purpose 5. Evaluate counterclaims Study language and craft 6. Combine sentences using relative clauses 7. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 8. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Writing to compare 9. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 10. Organize information by topic

Performance Task		Write a formal research paper 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Classify logical fallacies 3. Rewrite the sentence in active voice 4. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Performance Task
Write a formal research paper 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Classify logical fallacies 3. Rewrite the sentence in active voice 4. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Peer-Group Learning
Flash Fiction: Señor Noboa		1. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 2. Analyze short stories: set 1 3. Identify the narrative point of view
Flash Fiction: Señor Noboa
1. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 2. Analyze short stories: set 1 3. Identify the narrative point of view

Poetry Collection: For My People; Incident; Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper		1. Identify elements of poetry
Poetry Collection: For My People; Incident; Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
1. Identify elements of poetry

Speech: Lesson of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.		1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
Speech: Lesson of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim

Magazine Article: The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan		1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Magazine Article: The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan
1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement

2	Unit 2 Survival
Whole-Class Learning
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Compare Within Genre

Short Story: Through the Tunnel		1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Short Story: Through the Tunnel
1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Short Story: The Seventh Man		1. Use personification 2. Analyze short stories: set 1
Short Story: The Seventh Man
1. Use personification 2. Analyze short stories: set 1

Editorial: The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt		Analyze and interpret 1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Study language and craft 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 4. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 5. Use dashes Share ideas 6. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Editorial: The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt
Analyze and interpret 1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Study language and craft 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 4. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 5. Use dashes Share ideas 6. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone

Radio Broadcast: The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors		1. Which text is most formal? 2. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
Radio Broadcast: The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors
1. Which text is most formal? 2. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words

Performance Task		Write an argumentative essay 1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 4. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 5. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 6. Distinguish facts from opinions 7. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 8. Identify run-on sentences 9. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons 10. Commas: review 11. Correct capitalization errors
Performance Task
Write an argumentative essay 1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 4. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 5. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 6. Distinguish facts from opinions 7. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 8. Identify run-on sentences 9. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons 10. Commas: review 11. Correct capitalization errors
Peer-Group Learning
Compare Across Genres
Compare Across Genres

Narrative Nonfiction: The Voyage of the James Caird from The Endurance		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Narrative Nonfiction: The Voyage of the James Caird from The Endurance
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Photo Gallery: The Endurance and the James Caird in Images		1. Determine the main idea of a passage
Photo Gallery: The Endurance and the James Caird in Images
1. Determine the main idea of a passage

Novel Excerpt: from Life of Pi		1. Identify participles and what they modify 2. Evaluate counterclaims
Novel Excerpt: from Life of Pi
1. Identify participles and what they modify 2. Evaluate counterclaims

Argument: The Value of Sherpa Life		1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Use parallel structure 3. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Argument: The Value of Sherpa Life
1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Use parallel structure 3. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Poetry Collection 1: I Am Offering This Poem; The Writer; Hugging the Jukebox		1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Which text is most formal?
Poetry Collection 1: I Am Offering This Poem; The Writer; Hugging the Jukebox
1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Which text is most formal?

3	Unit 3 All That Glitters
Whole-Class Learning
Short Story: The Necklace		1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 3. Identify the narrative point of view
Short Story: The Necklace
1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 3. Identify the narrative point of view

Short Story: Civil Peace		Analyze and interpret 1. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Match the quotations with their themes Study language and craft 3. Form and use plurals of compound nouns Share ideas 4. Organize information by topic
Short Story: Civil Peace
Analyze and interpret 1. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Match the quotations with their themes Study language and craft 3. Form and use plurals of compound nouns Share ideas 4. Organize information by topic

Photo Essay: Treasure of Tutankhamun		1. Use dictionary definitions
Photo Essay: Treasure of Tutankhamun
1. Use dictionary definitions

Performance Task		Write an expository essay 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Identify supporting evidence in a text 4. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 5. Suggest appropriate revisions 6. Rewrite the sentence in active voice
Performance Task
Write an expository essay 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Identify supporting evidence in a text 4. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 5. Suggest appropriate revisions 6. Rewrite the sentence in active voice
Peer-Group learning
Journalism: In La Rinconada, Peru, Searching for Beauty in Ugliness		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Recall the source of an allusion 4. Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox 5. Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Journalism: In La Rinconada, Peru, Searching for Beauty in Ugliness
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Recall the source of an allusion 4. Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox 5. Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Poetry Collection: Avarice; The Good Life; Money		1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
Poetry Collection: Avarice; The Good Life; Money
1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence

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Compare Across Genres

Short Story: The Golden Touch		1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Short Story: The Golden Touch
1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Poetry: from King Midas		1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Identify elements of poetry
Poetry: from King Midas
1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Identify elements of poetry

Compare Within Genre
Compare Within Genre

Magazine Article: The Thrill of the Chase		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Magazine Article: The Thrill of the Chase
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Magazine Article: My Possessions, Myself		1. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 2. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review
Magazine Article: My Possessions, Myself
1. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 2. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review

4	Unit 4 Virtue and Vengeance
Whole-Class Learning
Literature and culture		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
Literature and culture
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1

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Compare Across Genres

Drama: The Tempest: Act I		1. Use dictionary definitions 2. Identify thesis statements
Drama: The Tempest: Act I
1. Use dictionary definitions 2. Identify thesis statements
Drama: The Tempest: Act II		1. Words with sub- 2. Analyze short stories: set 2
Drama: The Tempest: Act II
1. Words with sub- 2. Analyze short stories: set 2
Drama: The Tempest: Act III		1. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions 2. Use dictionary entries
Drama: The Tempest: Act III
1. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions 2. Use dictionary entries
Drama: The Tempest: Act IV		1. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Drama: The Tempest: Act IV
1. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Drama: The Tempest: Act V		1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots 2. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Drama: The Tempest: Act V
1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots 2. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Poetry Collection: En el Jardín de los Espejos Quebrados, Caliban Catches a Glimpse of His Reflection; Caliban		1. Word pattern analogies 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 4. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Poetry Collection: En el Jardín de los Espejos Quebrados, Caliban Catches a Glimpse of His Reflection; Caliban
1. Word pattern analogies 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 4. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

Performance Task		Write an argument: literary analysis 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone 3. Form the progressive verb tenses 4. Form the perfect verb tenses 5. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense 6. Suggest appropriate revisions 7. Identify sentences with parallel structure 8. Use parallel structure 9. Correct capitalization errors
Performance Task
Write an argument: literary analysis 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone 3. Form the progressive verb tenses 4. Form the perfect verb tenses 5. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense 6. Suggest appropriate revisions 7. Identify sentences with parallel structure 8. Use parallel structure 9. Correct capitalization errors
Peer-Group Learning
Argument: Author Hugh Macdonald Explains…; Shakespeare in Modern English?		1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Argument: Author Hugh Macdonald Explains…; Shakespeare in Modern English?
1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses

Informational Text: Understanding Forgiveness		1. Words with re- 2. Identify active and passive voice 3. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Informational Text: Understanding Forgiveness
1. Words with re- 2. Identify active and passive voice 3. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2

Poetry Collection 2: They are hostile nations; Under a Certain Little Star		1. Identify elements of poetry
Poetry Collection 2: They are hostile nations; Under a Certain Little Star
1. Identify elements of poetry

Speech: Let South Africa Show the World How to Forgive		1. Use the correct foreign expression 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 3. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 4. Classify logical fallacies 5. Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Speech: Let South Africa Show the World How to Forgive
1. Use the correct foreign expression 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 3. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 4. Classify logical fallacies 5. Use relative pronouns: who and whom

5	Unit 5 Blindness and Sight
Whole-Class Learning
Literature and culture: Oedipus the King		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Literature and culture: Oedipus the King
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2

Drama: Oedipus the King, Part I		1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? 2. Use personification 3. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Drama: Oedipus the King, Part I
1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? 2. Use personification 3. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Drama: Oedipus the King, Part II		1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement 2. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Drama: Oedipus the King, Part II
1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement 2. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Performance Task		Write a short story 1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Use words accurately and precisely 3. Identify sentence fragments 4. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions 5. Identify vague pronoun references 6. Identify all of the possible antecedents
Performance Task
Write a short story 1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Use words accurately and precisely 3. Identify sentence fragments 4. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions 5. Identify vague pronoun references 6. Identify all of the possible antecedents
Peer-Group Learning
Letter: View from the Empire State Building		Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Vocabulary 3. Words with -able and -ible Study language and craft 4. Is it a phrase or a clause? 5. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 6. Use dashes
Letter: View from the Empire State Building
Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Vocabulary 3. Words with -able and -ible Study language and craft 4. Is it a phrase or a clause? 5. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 6. Use dashes

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Compare Within Genre

Poetry Collection: Blind; The Blind Seer of Ambon; On His Blindness		1. Classify figures of speech: review 2. Match the quotations with their themes
Poetry Collection: Blind; The Blind Seer of Ambon; On His Blindness
1. Classify figures of speech: review 2. Match the quotations with their themes

Short Story: The Country of the Blind		1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
Short Story: The Country of the Blind
1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

Memoir: The Neglected Senses from For the Benefit of Those Who See		1. Identify prepositional phrases 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Memoir: The Neglected Senses from For the Benefit of Those Who See
1. Identify prepositional phrases 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses

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