This is a page for crafting the curriculum for next year's English II.

Overview: Units of Study

First Semester

1. Writer's workshop: Establishing norms and prewriting (2 weeks)
2. Literature norms: responding to literature, levels of questions, discussion facilitation, setting up outside reading groups (2 weeks)
3. Writer's workshop: Genre study on poetry (3 weeks)
4. Reading: Mythology: How does mythology shape our thinking? (5 weeks)
5. Writer's Workshop: Genre study on the feature article (6 weeks)

Second Semester

It's always incredibly satisfying to map what we have done at the end of a school year-- if only my prospective sight were as good as my retrospective. This seems to me a very good argument for collaboratively documenting and revising curriculum from year to year.

Essential Question

Learning Targets

• Students can analyze the use of voice in an essay, reading closely for tropes, diction, imagery, and allusions. Students can evoke voice and an inner world in personal essays.
• Students can define, identify, and explain allegory, epic simile, poetic justice
• Students can explain humanism, objectivity, subjectivity, and the classical, medieval, and early modern (Renaissance) mindsets. Students can use these concepts to contrast texts by Dante and Petrarch.
  

Essential Question

Learning Targets

• Students can make thematic associations within a text using an organizer such as a concept web or a wiki.
• Students can categorize the point of view of a text and explain its impact on the text.
• Students can organize a paragraph around a claim, using transitions to put evidence and explanation into logical relationships.

Essential Question

Learning Targets

• Students will understand the relationship between point of view and tone, and how they impact the meaning of a text.
• Students will understand the concepts of the hero's journey and archetypes, and be able to analyze their presence in myths.
• Students will understand the relationship between text, context, and subtext, and will be able to use these terms in discussion.