IXL skill plan | 12th grade plan for SpringBoard ELA 2021

Skill plan for SpringBoard ELA 2021 - 12th grade

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1	Unit 1 Perception is Everything
Activity 1.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 1.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 1.2: Perception is Everything
Activity 1.2: Perception is Everything


Activity 1.3: Importance of Perspective		1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Activity 1.3: Importance of Perspective
1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox

Activity 1.4: Applying Reader Response Criticism		1. Identify elements of poetry
Activity 1.4: Applying Reader Response Criticism
1. Identify elements of poetry

Activity 1.5: Creating Meaning		1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Activity 1.5: Creating Meaning
1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Activity 1.6: Exploring Poetic Form		1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Activity 1.6: Exploring Poetic Form
1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words

Activity 1.7: Another Perspective on the World		1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Use words accurately and precisely
Activity 1.7: Another Perspective on the World
1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Use words accurately and precisely

Activity 1.8: Exploring Rhetoric		Reading strategies 1. Evaluate counterclaims 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Grammar and usage 4. Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Activity 1.8: Exploring Rhetoric
Reading strategies 1. Evaluate counterclaims 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Grammar and usage 4. Use hyphens in compound adjectives

Activity 1.9: Critiquing and Evaluating an Argument		1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim
Activity 1.9: Critiquing and Evaluating an Argument
1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim

Activity 1.10: Exploring How an Author Builds an Argument		1. Trace an argument: set 1
Activity 1.10: Exploring How an Author Builds an Argument
1. Trace an argument: set 1

Activity 1.11: Evaluating a Peer's Essay		1. Suggest appropriate revisions 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Activity 1.11: Evaluating a Peer's Essay
1. Suggest appropriate revisions 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay


Activity 1.12: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 1.12: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 1.13: What Is Cultural Criticism?		1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
Activity 1.13: What Is Cultural Criticism?
1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea

Activity 1.14: Applying Cultural Criticism		Reading strategies 1. Interpret the figure of speech 2. Compare passages for tone Word study 3. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
Activity 1.14: Applying Cultural Criticism
Reading strategies 1. Interpret the figure of speech 2. Compare passages for tone Word study 3. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions

Activity 1.15: Digging Deeper for Meaning		Reading strategies 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Grammar and usage 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses 3. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Language checkpoint 4. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 5. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 6. Are the modifiers used correctly?
Activity 1.15: Digging Deeper for Meaning
Reading strategies 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Grammar and usage 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses 3. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Language checkpoint 4. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 5. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 6. Are the modifiers used correctly?

Activity 1.16: Reflecting on an Event		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Which text is most formal?
Activity 1.16: Reflecting on an Event
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Which text is most formal?

Activity 1.17: Being a Stranger		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Activity 1.17: Being a Stranger
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Activity 1.18: Understanding the Stranger's Perception of the Village		Reading strategies 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Word study 2. Prefixes 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Activity 1.18: Understanding the Stranger's Perception of the Village
Reading strategies 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Word study 2. Prefixes 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

Embedded Assessment 2: Writing a Reflective Essay
Embedded Assessment 2: Writing a Reflective Essay

2	Unit 2 The Collective Perspective
Activity 2.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 2.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 2.2: A Closer Look: Archetypal Perspective		1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 2.2: A Closer Look: Archetypal Perspective
1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 2.3: Introducing the Myth		1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Determine the main idea of a passage
Activity 2.3: Introducing the Myth
1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Determine the main idea of a passage

Activity 2.4: Viewing the Subjects		1. Use the correct foreign expression
Activity 2.4: Viewing the Subjects
1. Use the correct foreign expression

Activity 2.5: Ladies and Gentlemen		Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text Writer's craft 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Activity 2.5: Ladies and Gentlemen
Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text Writer's craft 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Activity 2.6: Language and Satire
Activity 2.6: Language and Satire


Activity 2.7: Reading Between the Lines
Activity 2.7: Reading Between the Lines


Activity 2.8: Examining Eliza's Options		1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim
Activity 2.8: Examining Eliza's Options
1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim

Activity 2.9: Transformations		1. Use words accurately and precisely
Activity 2.9: Transformations
1. Use words accurately and precisely

Activity 2.10: What Does Eliza Do?		1. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 2. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
Activity 2.10: What Does Eliza Do?
1. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 2. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences

Activity 2.11: Examining the Archetypes		Writing 1. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Correct errors in everyday use Grammar and usage 4. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas
Activity 2.11: Examining the Archetypes
Writing 1. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Correct errors in everyday use Grammar and usage 4. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas

Activity 2.12: From a Marxist Perspective
Activity 2.12: From a Marxist Perspective


Activity 2.13: Money, Power, and Class in Pygmalion		1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Activity 2.13: Money, Power, and Class in Pygmalion
1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone

Embedded Assessment 1: Illuminating Pygmalion
Embedded Assessment 1: Illuminating Pygmalion


Activity 2.14: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 2.14: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 2.15: From a Feminist Perspective		1. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 2.15: From a Feminist Perspective
1. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 2.16: A Reversal of Fortune		Reading strategies 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Trace an argument: set 2 Writer's craft 3. Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives 4. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series Language checkpoint 5. What does the punctuation suggest? 6. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 7. Use dashes
Activity 2.16: A Reversal of Fortune
Reading strategies 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Trace an argument: set 2 Writer's craft 3. Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives 4. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series Language checkpoint 5. What does the punctuation suggest? 6. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 7. Use dashes

Activity 2.17: Battle of the Sexes		Reading strategies 1. Match the quotations with their themes Word study 2. Prefixes 3. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Activity 2.17: Battle of the Sexes
Reading strategies 1. Match the quotations with their themes Word study 2. Prefixes 3. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words

Activity 2.18: Feminist Critique: The Tree of Life
Activity 2.18: Feminist Critique: The Tree of Life


Activity 2.19: Seeing Beyond Your Own Perspective		Reading strategies 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 Grammar and usage 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses 3. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Activity 2.19: Seeing Beyond Your Own Perspective
Reading strategies 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 Grammar and usage 2. Identify dependent and independent clauses 3. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

Embedded Assessment 2: Applying a Critical Perspective
Embedded Assessment 2: Applying a Critical Perspective

3	Unit 3 Evolving Perspectives
Activity 3.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 3.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 3.2: Creating Acting Companies
Activity 3.2: Creating Acting Companies


Activity 3.3: Cultural Criticism		Writing 1. Which text is most formal? Word study 2. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots Writer's craft 3. Identify elements of poetry
Activity 3.3: Cultural Criticism
Writing 1. Which text is most formal? Word study 2. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots Writer's craft 3. Identify elements of poetry

Activity 3.4: Building a Plot and Bringing it to Life: Irony
Activity 3.4: Building a Plot and Bringing it to Life: Irony


Activity 3.5: Viewing a Cast of Characters Through a Marxist Lens		Writing 1. Use words accurately and precisely Writer's craft 2. Word pattern analogies 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence 5. Use dictionary definitions
Activity 3.5: Viewing a Cast of Characters Through a Marxist Lens
Writing 1. Use words accurately and precisely Writer's craft 2. Word pattern analogies 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 4. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence 5. Use dictionary definitions

Activity 3.6: A Father's Reaction: Performing and Defending an Interpretation		Writing 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Word study 2. Suffixes 3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Grammar and usage 4. Identify dependent and independent clauses 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Activity 3.6: A Father's Reaction: Performing and Defending an Interpretation
Writing 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Word study 2. Suffixes 3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Grammar and usage 4. Identify dependent and independent clauses 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

Activity 3.7: The Moor: Character Analysis Through a Cultural Lens		Word study 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Grammar and usage 3. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 4. Use dashes
Activity 3.7: The Moor: Character Analysis Through a Cultural Lens
Word study 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Grammar and usage 3. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 4. Use dashes

Activity 3.8: Critiquing a Monologue		1. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage 2. Explore words with new or contested usages
Activity 3.8: Critiquing a Monologue
1. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage 2. Explore words with new or contested usages

Activity 3.9: A Historical Look at the Moor		Reading strategies 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Word study 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Grammar and usage 3. Identify participles and what they modify
Activity 3.9: A Historical Look at the Moor
Reading strategies 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Word study 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Grammar and usage 3. Identify participles and what they modify

Activity 3.10: Desdemona: From a Feminist Perspective
Activity 3.10: Desdemona: From a Feminist Perspective


Activity 3.11: Honest Iago: The Dramatic Speech		1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 3.11: Honest Iago: The Dramatic Speech
1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 3.12: Demystifying Emilia: Questioning Through a Critical Lens		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
Activity 3.12: Demystifying Emilia: Questioning Through a Critical Lens
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text

Activity 3.13: Staging Iago's Lies: Blocking for Effect
Activity 3.13: Staging Iago's Lies: Blocking for Effect


Activity 3.14: One Scene, Many Perspectives		1. Compare passages for tone
Activity 3.14: One Scene, Many Perspectives
1. Compare passages for tone

Activity 3.15: "Talk You of Killing?": Defending a Perspective		1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Activity 3.15: "Talk You of Killing?": Defending a Perspective
1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

Activity 3.16: A Minor Folly: Analyzing Roderigo
Activity 3.16: A Minor Folly: Analyzing Roderigo


Activity 3.17: Evolving Perspectives		1. Identify thesis statements
Activity 3.17: Evolving Perspectives
1. Identify thesis statements

Activity 3.18: Evaluating an Essay: Rubric Creation		1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Activity 3.18: Evaluating an Essay: Rubric Creation
1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Literary Analysis
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Literary Analysis


Activity 3.19: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 3.19: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 3.20: Othello through Time		1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 3.20: Othello through Time
1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 3.21: Staging a Performance
Activity 3.21: Staging a Performance


Activity 3.22: Playbill: Othello		1. Correct capitalization errors 2. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review
Activity 3.22: Playbill: Othello
1. Correct capitalization errors 2. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review

Embedded Assessment 2: Staging an Interpretation
Embedded Assessment 2: Staging an Interpretation

4	Unit 4 Creating Perspectives
Activity 4.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 4.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 4.2: The Evolution of Media		Reading strategies 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Grammar and usage 2. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement 3. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects Language checkpoint 4. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Activity 4.2: The Evolution of Media
Reading strategies 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Grammar and usage 2. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement 3. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects Language checkpoint 4. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Activity 4.3: Constructing Public Opinion		Reading strategies 1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox 3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone Grammar and usage 4. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Activity 4.3: Constructing Public Opinion
Reading strategies 1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox 3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone Grammar and usage 4. Combine sentences using relative clauses

Activity 4.4: Bias in News Reports		Reading strategies 1. Classify logical fallacies Writing 2. Evaluate counterclaims 3. Use the correct frequently confused word
Activity 4.4: Bias in News Reports
Reading strategies 1. Classify logical fallacies Writing 2. Evaluate counterclaims 3. Use the correct frequently confused word

Activity 4.5: Framing the Investigation		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Activity 4.5: Framing the Investigation
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1

Activity 4.6: Exploring Media Sources		1. Distinguish facts from opinions
Activity 4.6: Exploring Media Sources
1. Distinguish facts from opinions

Activity 4.7: Throwing Light on the Situation		Reading strategies 1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement Writing 2. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words 3. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words Grammar and usage 4. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Language checkpoint 5. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons
Activity 4.7: Throwing Light on the Situation
Reading strategies 1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement Writing 2. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words 3. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words Grammar and usage 4. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Language checkpoint 5. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons

Activity 4.8: Creating a Research Plan		1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest
Activity 4.8: Creating a Research Plan
1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest

Activity 4.9: Evaluating Sources		1. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Identify plagiarism
Activity 4.9: Evaluating Sources
1. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Identify plagiarism

Embedded Assessment 1: Examining How an Issue Is Presented in Media Texts
Embedded Assessment 1: Examining How an Issue Is Presented in Media Texts


Activity 4.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 4.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 4.11: Preparing to Persuade		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Activity 4.11: Preparing to Persuade
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Activity 4.12: That Sounds Just Right		1. Identify audience and purpose
Activity 4.12: That Sounds Just Right
1. Identify audience and purpose

Activity 4.13: Turning Research Into Persuasion		1. Identify thesis statements
Activity 4.13: Turning Research Into Persuasion
1. Identify thesis statements

Activity 4.14: Voir Dire: Facing a Jury of Your Peers		1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Use the correct foreign expression
Activity 4.14: Voir Dire: Facing a Jury of Your Peers
1. Trace an argument: set 2 2. Use the correct foreign expression

Embedded Assessment 2: Presenting an Argument
Embedded Assessment 2: Presenting an Argument

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