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Skill plan for StudySync ELA - 12th grade

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1	Unit 1 What's Next?
Reading and Writing
Are the New "Golden Age" TV Shows the New Novels?		Context clues 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Text analysis 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Textual evidence 3. Identify supporting evidence in a text Peer review 4. Suggest appropriate revisions
Are the New "Golden Age" TV Shows the New Novels?
Context clues 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Text analysis 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Textual evidence 3. Identify supporting evidence in a text Peer review 4. Suggest appropriate revisions

Paired Texts: Community Colleges vs. Technical Schools and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome		1. Determine the main idea of a passage
Paired Texts: Community Colleges vs. Technical Schools and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
1. Determine the main idea of a passage

Excerpt from The Metamorphosis		Story structure 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Connotation and denotation 2. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
Excerpt from The Metamorphosis
Story structure 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Connotation and denotation 2. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence

Paired Texts: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life and We Choose to Go to the Moon		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Identify audience and purpose
Paired Texts: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life and We Choose to Go to the Moon
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Identify audience and purpose

Paired Texts: How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked, Commencement Address at Wellesley College, and Plessy V. Ferguson		Reasons and evidence 1. Trace an argument: set 1 Technical language 2. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects
Paired Texts: How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked, Commencement Address at Wellesley College, and Plessy V. Ferguson
Reasons and evidence 1. Trace an argument: set 1 Technical language 2. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects

Independent Read: Booster Staff Investigates
Independent Read: Booster Staff Investigates

Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		1. Organize information by topic 2. Identify thesis statements
Draft
1. Organize information by topic 2. Identify thesis statements

Revise		1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Remove redundant words or phrases
Revise
1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Remove redundant words or phrases

Edit and Publish		Style 1. Which text is most formal? Parallel structure 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure 3. Use parallel structure Sentence variety 4. Identify dependent and independent clauses 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Apostrophes 6. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns 7. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Edit and Publish
Style 1. Which text is most formal? Parallel structure 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure 3. Use parallel structure Sentence variety 4. Identify dependent and independent clauses 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Apostrophes 6. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns 7. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		1. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences 2. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas 3. What does the punctuation suggest? 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements
Grammar
1. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences 2. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas 3. What does the punctuation suggest? 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements

2	Unit 2 Uncovering Truth
Reading and Writing
Paired Texts: Excerpt from Beowulf (A Graphic Novel) and Excerpt from Beowulf		1. Word pattern analogies 2. Word pattern sentences
Paired Texts: Excerpt from Beowulf (A Graphic Novel) and Excerpt from Beowulf
1. Word pattern analogies 2. Word pattern sentences

Independent Read: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Independent Read: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


Paired Texts: Truth Serum, Richard III, The Pardoner's Prologue		Point of view 1. Identify the narrative point of view Word meaning 2. Describe the difference between related words
Paired Texts: Truth Serum, Richard III, The Pardoner's Prologue
Point of view 1. Identify the narrative point of view Word meaning 2. Describe the difference between related words

Shakespeare: The World as Stage		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2

Paired Texts: Hamlet and His Problems and Hamlet		1. Compare passages for tone 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Paired Texts: Hamlet and His Problems and Hamlet
1. Compare passages for tone 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

The Postmaster		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
The Postmaster
1. Analyze short stories: set 2

Independent Read: A Letter to NFL GMs and Men We Reaped
Independent Read: A Letter to NFL GMs and Men We Reaped

Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		1. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Draft
1. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Revise		1. Use words accurately and precisely 2. Replace words using a thesaurus
Revise
1. Use words accurately and precisely 2. Replace words using a thesaurus

Edit and Publish		Modifiers 1. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 2. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 3. Are the modifiers used correctly? Pronouns 4. Identify vague pronoun references 5. Identify all of the possible antecedents 6. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Edit and Publish
Modifiers 1. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 2. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 3. Are the modifiers used correctly? Pronouns 4. Identify vague pronoun references 5. Identify all of the possible antecedents 6. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Irregular modifiers 1. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst 2. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst
Grammar
Irregular modifiers 1. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst 2. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

3	Unit 3 Against the Wind
Reading and Writing
Excerpt from Gulliver's Travels		1. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Excerpt from Gulliver's Travels
1. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words

Paired Texts: Liberty Tree and To His Excellence, General Washington		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Paired Texts: Liberty Tree and To His Excellence, General Washington
1. Match the quotations with their themes

Paired Texts: Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and United States v. The Amistad		Rhetoric 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 Allusions 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Recall the source of an allusion
Paired Texts: Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and United States v. The Amistad
Rhetoric 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 Allusions 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Recall the source of an allusion

Paired Texts: After Being Convicted of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, and The Federalist Papers: No. 10		Arguments and claims 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Language, style, and audience 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Paired Texts: After Being Convicted of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, and The Federalist Papers: No. 10
Arguments and claims 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Language, style, and audience 2. Identify audience and purpose 3. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone

Independent Read: Self Made Men and I Am Prepared to Die
Independent Read: Self Made Men and I Am Prepared to Die


Leadership During a Crisis		1. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects
Leadership During a Crisis
1. Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects

Independent Read: A Warrior's Daughter
Independent Read: A Warrior's Daughter

Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		Organization 1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Reasons and evidence 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 3. Evaluate counterclaims
Draft
Organization 1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Reasons and evidence 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 3. Evaluate counterclaims

Revise		1. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Revise
1. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

Edit and Publish		Style 1. Which text is most formal? Subject-verb agreement 2. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement Commas 3. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 4. Commas with series, dates, and places 5. Commas: review Semicolons, colons, and dashes 6. Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives 7. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series 8. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 9. Use dashes
Edit and Publish
Style 1. Which text is most formal? Subject-verb agreement 2. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement Commas 3. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 4. Commas with series, dates, and places 5. Commas: review Semicolons, colons, and dashes 6. Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives 7. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series 8. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 9. Use dashes
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Sentence fragments and run-ons 1. Identify sentence fragments 2. Identify run-on sentences 3. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons Subject-verb agreement 4. Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement 5. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
Grammar
Sentence fragments and run-ons 1. Identify sentence fragments 2. Identify run-on sentences 3. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons Subject-verb agreement 4. Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement 5. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

4	Unit 4 Sculpting Reality
Reading and Writing
Ozymandias
Ozymandias


Paired Texts: Facing It and Ode to a Grecian Urn		1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Interpret the figure of speech
Paired Texts: Facing It and Ode to a Grecian Urn
1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Interpret the figure of speech

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey		Context clues 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Figurative language 2. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Context clues 1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Figurative language 2. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox

Independent Read: Stung, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, The Cry of the Children, and A Tale of Two Cities
Independent Read: Stung, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, The Cry of the Children, and A Tale of Two Cities


Paired Texts: Excerpt from Jane Eyre, Jabberwocky Baby, and Dear Mama		1. Explore words with new or contested usages 2. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions 3. Use the correct foreign expression
Paired Texts: Excerpt from Jane Eyre, Jabberwocky Baby, and Dear Mama
1. Explore words with new or contested usages 2. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions 3. Use the correct foreign expression

Paired Texts: Freedom and Why I Write		Summarizing 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Figurative language 2. Classify the figure of speech: review 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Paired Texts: Freedom and Why I Write
Summarizing 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Figurative language 2. Classify the figure of speech: review 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Writing and Grammar
Draft		1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Distinguish facts from opinions
Draft
1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Distinguish facts from opinions

Revise		Critiquing research 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Identify plagiarism Citations 3. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 4. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Revise
Critiquing research 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Identify plagiarism Citations 3. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 4. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Edit and Publish		Usage 1. Correct errors with signs 2. Correct errors in everyday use Hyphens 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Edit and Publish
Usage 1. Correct errors with signs 2. Correct errors in everyday use Hyphens 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		1. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
Grammar
1. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

5	Unit 5 Fractured Selves
Reading and Writing
Paired Texts: The Great Figure and The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock		Language and style 1. Compare passages for tone 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Recall the source of an allusion Poetic elements 4. Identify elements of poetry
Paired Texts: The Great Figure and The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Language and style 1. Compare passages for tone 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Recall the source of an allusion Poetic elements 4. Identify elements of poetry

Paired Texts: Miss Rosie, The Idler, A Cup of Tea		Word patterns 1. Analogies 2. Analogies: challenge Summarize 3. Analyze short stories: set 1
Paired Texts: Miss Rosie, The Idler, A Cup of Tea
Word patterns 1. Analogies 2. Analogies: challenge Summarize 3. Analyze short stories: set 1

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie


Independent Read: A Room of One's Own, The New Dress, and Hurricane Season
Independent Read: A Room of One's Own, The New Dress, and Hurricane Season


Be Ye Men of Valour		Textual analysis 1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Word meaning 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 4. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 5. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
Be Ye Men of Valour
Textual analysis 1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Word meaning 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 4. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 5. Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage

Independent Read: The Pearl Divers' Daughters
Independent Read: The Pearl Divers' Daughters


Paired Texts: Killers of the Dream and Shooting an Elephant		Textual analysis 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Connotation and denotation 2. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 3. Interpret the figure of speech
Paired Texts: Killers of the Dream and Shooting an Elephant
Textual analysis 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Connotation and denotation 2. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 3. Interpret the figure of speech
Writing and Grammar
Draft		Reasons and evidence 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Thesis statements 3. Identify thesis statements Organization 4. Organize information by topic
Draft
Reasons and evidence 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Thesis statements 3. Identify thesis statements Organization 4. Organize information by topic

Revise		1. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Revise
1. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

Edit and Publish		Citations 1. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) Spelling 3. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words Pronouns 4. Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns 5. Subject and object pronouns review 6. Pronouns after "than" and "as"
Edit and Publish
Citations 1. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 2. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) Spelling 3. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words Pronouns 4. Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns 5. Subject and object pronouns review 6. Pronouns after "than" and "as"
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Relative pronouns 1. Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who" 2. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 3. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 4. Combine sentences using relative clauses Appositives 5. Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Grammar
Relative pronouns 1. Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who" 2. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 3. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 4. Combine sentences using relative clauses Appositives 5. Identify appositives and appositive phrases

6	Unit 6 Times of Transition
Reading and Writing
The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us		1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us
1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context

Independent Read: Love After Love
Independent Read: Love After Love


Paired Texts: The Museum and A Temporary Matter		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
Paired Texts: The Museum and A Temporary Matter
1. Analyze short stories: set 2

Independent Read: Tryst with Destiny
Independent Read: Tryst with Destiny


Paired Texts: A Small Place and Ghosts		1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
Paired Texts: A Small Place and Ghosts
1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim

Independent Read: ARK
Independent Read: ARK


Paired Texts: Hidden Biases of Good People, News Literacy in the Misinformation Age, Honesty on Social Media		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Paired Texts: Hidden Biases of Good People, News Literacy in the Misinformation Age, Honesty on Social Media
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2

Independent Read: Dawn Revisited
Independent Read: Dawn Revisited


Commencement Address at the New School		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Commencement Address at the New School
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Oral Project and Grammar
Draft		Organization 1. Evaluate counterclaims 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Evaluating sources 3. Distinguish facts from opinions Persuasive techniques 4. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 5. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
Draft
Organization 1. Evaluate counterclaims 2. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Evaluating sources 3. Distinguish facts from opinions Persuasive techniques 4. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 5. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing

Revise		Reasons and evidence 1. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons 2. Classify logical fallacies 3. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim Citations 4. Identify plagiarism
Revise
Reasons and evidence 1. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons 2. Classify logical fallacies 3. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim Citations 4. Identify plagiarism

Edit and Publish		Parallel structure 1. Identify sentences with parallel structure 2. Use parallel structure
Edit and Publish
Parallel structure 1. Identify sentences with parallel structure 2. Use parallel structure
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Essential and nonessential clauses 1. What does the punctuation suggest? 2. Commas with nonrestrictive elements Sentence types 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses 4. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 5. Is it a phrase or a clause?
Grammar
Essential and nonessential clauses 1. What does the punctuation suggest? 2. Commas with nonrestrictive elements Sentence types 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses 4. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 5. Is it a phrase or a clause?

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