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Welcome to Mr. Menaugh's Wiki for English 11!  Below is the Junior English Curriculum Powerful speeches throughout history – connect to rhetorical devices and historical time periods
 * Junior English **

Theme: **Americana** Enduring Understandings: **The American Dream is uniquely personal, yet also overarching and common for those who live, or strive to live, in the United States. Texts display the values of a society. ** __ Semester One __ Essays that MUST be completed are Expressive, Expository, and Persuasive. Assessments marked with * are __suggested__ but not required.

Pre-Assessment Essay Star Reading Pre-Assessment UNIT ONE: Coming to America Big Idea: The realities of the American Dream are different from the myth, yet people have come and are still coming to America based on this Dream. (Content) Strong writers use the writing process and know the traits of effective writing. (Writing) Strong readers employ strategies to increase comprehension and actively construct meaning by critically examining the text. (Reading) Essential Questions **:** What is an American? What is the American Dream? What are the myths and realities of the American Dream? Why did/do people come to the US? What are the founding ideals of this country? How are these ideals still applicable today? Can humans change their behavior based on a knowledge of history? Does the reality of America live up to the idea of America? What is the writing process? How does the writing process help students to improve writing? What are the Six Traits of Writing? How can the Six Traits of Writing aid in the improvement of student writing? What practices do good readers employ? What specific strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to build meaning? Texts: **Primary sources from //Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes// (textbook)** § “Journal of the First Voyage to America” § Native Myths and Legends § Olouda Equiano § Crevecoeur “Letters From an American Farmer” Supplemental Materials: **John Smith and Pocahontas, slave narratives, modern slavery, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Puritan work ethic data, modern-day connections, myths/ideals, //The Golden Door//, //Coming to America//, //Pocahontas, Slave Narratives DVD (HBO)//** Assessments: “Find out and tell the story of the first person in your family to come to America” (Expressive) *First-person journals of Columbus/Native Americans/etc. (Expressive) *Sermon arguing against a perceived problem, using strong imagery (Expressive/Persuasive) Knowledge: **__American Dream__, allegory, Puritanical, work ethic, oral literature, utopia, Americana, __cultural bias__, symbolism, imagery, vernacular,**

Big Idea: anguage and rhetoric can be and have been used as powerful tools for social and political change in a society that promotes freedom. Strong writers use the writing process and know the traits of effective writing. (Writing) Strong readers employ strategies to increase comprehension and actively construct meaning by critically examining the text. (Reading) Essential Questions: How can language and rhetoric be used as a tool to promote social change? What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens of a free society? What are the responsibilities of government? __Is an individual ever morally justified in breaking a law?__ What is the writing process? How does the writing process help students to improve writing? What are the Six Traits of Writing? How can the Six Traits of Writing aid in the improvement of student writing? What practices do good readers employ? What specific strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to build meaning? Texts: **Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Declaration of Independence** Supplemental Materials: **Martin Luther King, Jr., Jim Crowe Laws, //The Great Debaters//,** Assessments: Analyze speeches for rhetorical devices (Persuasive/Literary Analysis) *Personal Declaration of Independence (Persuasive) Essential Vocabulary assessment Knowledge: **__rhetorical devices__, audience, tone, rationalism, individualism, publication, passive resistance, __civil disobedience__, __social contract__,**
 * UNIT TWO: The Revolution **

Big Idea: Romanticism both reflected and encouraged individual and societal change. (Content) Strong writers use the writing process and know the traits of effective writing. (Writing) Strong readers employ strategies to increase comprehension and actively construct meaning by critically examining the text. (Reading) Essential Questions: What is the difference between being romantic and Romanticism? What are the main features of Romanticism? How did Romanticism break with traditional thought? What is Truth? How did the Romantics define or pursue Truth? How did the differences between Rationalism and Romanticism reflect the changes in society? What is the writing process? How does the writing process help students to improve writing? What are the Six Traits of Writing? How can the Six Traits of Writing aid in the improvement of student writing? What practices do good readers employ? What specific strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to build meaning? Texts: **Poe “The Raven” “Annabelle Lee”, Hawthorne //Young Goodman Brown//, Melville //Moby Dick//, Longfellow “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”,** Supplemental Materials: **Irving, Emily Dickinson, James Fennimore Cooper, Dillard “Living Like Weasels”** Assessments: Creative writing/poetry writing – reflecting Romantic ideals (Expressive) Essential Vocabulary assessment *Analyze Romantic texts (Literary Analysis) *Poetry Out Loud Knowledge: **__Romanticism__, __Reason__, neo-classicism, instinct, __stanza, tone, imagery, symbolism, metaphor__, //carpe diem//, dissent,**
 * UNIT THREE: Romanticism **

UNIT FOUR: Transcendentalism Big Idea: The pursuit of Truth leads people down a variety of paths. (Content) Strong writers use the writing process and know the traits of effective writing. (Writing) Strong readers employ strategies to increase comprehension and actively construct meaning by critically examining the text. (Reading) Essential Questions: What is Truth? How did the Transcendentalists define or pursue Truth? How did the differences between Romanticism and Transcendentalism reflect the changes in society? How can a “small” literary movement influence society at large? What is the writing process? How does the writing process help students to improve writing? What are the Six Traits of Writing? How can the Six Traits of Writing aid in the improvement of student writing? What practices do good readers employ? What specific strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to build meaning? Texts: **Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Fuller** Supplemental Materials: **Dillard “Living Like Weasels”, Irving, Emily Dickinson** Assessments: *Creative writing (Expressive) Essential Vocabulary assessment Culminating Activity – Final Assessment for Semester One Star Reading Mid-Term Assessment Knowledge: **transcend, over soul, industrialization, individualism, philosophy, protégé, self-reliance, divine, savage, civilized, civil-disobedience,**

Theme: **Americana** Enduring Understandings: **Conflict shapes the American Dream. Texts display the values of a society. **
 * __ Semester Two __ **

**Essays that MUST be completed are Literary Analysis, Functional, and Research Paper. Assessments marked with * are __suggested__ but not required.**

**UNIT FIVE: Perspectives on War** Big Idea: War affects government, society, people and ideas. (Content) Strong writers use the writing process and know the traits of effective writing. (Writing) Strong readers employ strategies to increase comprehension and actively construct meaning by critically examining the text. (Reading) Essential Questions: Why do Americans go to war? Can war be justified? Does war work? How do literary movements reflect the events of an era? How do functional documents reflect reporting on war? What is the writing process? How does the writing process help students to improve writing? What are the Six Traits of Writing? How can the Six Traits of Writing aid in the improvement of student writing? What practices do good readers employ? What specific strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to build meaning? Events: **Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War** Texts: **Tim O’Brien, Nixon/Kronkite war reporting, Frederick Douglas “My Bondage and My Freedom”, Sojourner Truth “An Account of an Experience With Discrimination”, Stephen Crane, Folk Songs, Spirituals, “Mary Chestnut’s Civil War”, Ambrose Bierce, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, selections from textbook, [] Reader’s Theater - Gettysburg address, Phyllis Wheatley** Supplemental Materials: Assessments: Essential Vocabulary assessment Functional* Research, or Literary Analysis Knowledge: **__abolitionist__, civil, suffrage, __underground railroad__, discrimination, Confederate, Union, __emancipation__, secession, war, opposition, justification**

Big Idea: America’s identity is continually renewed and redefined by emerging voices. (Content) Strong writers use the writing process and know the traits of effective writing. (Writing) Strong readers employ strategies to increase comprehension and actively construct meaning by critically examining the text. (Reading) Essential Questions: Who gets a say in America? Who is an American? Whose voices are heard? How is the American society defined by the “unheard” voices? How is America’s changing population reflected in her literature? What is the writing process? How does the writing process help students to improve writing? What are the Six Traits of Writing? How can the Six Traits of Writing aid in the improvement of student writing? What practices do good readers employ? What specific strategies can be used before, during, and after reading to build meaning? Events: **Women’s Suffrage, Great Depression, Civil Rights Conflict, Harlem Renaissance** Suggested Texts: **Harlem Renaissance writers, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Kate Chopin, __Huckleberry Finn__, __The Crucible__, __Of Mice and Men__, __The Grapes of Wrath,__ Mark Twain biography (Ken Burns), Barbara Kingsolver __Lacuna__, __The Great Gatsby__** Supplemental Materials: Assessments: Essential Vocabulary assessment Literary Analysis* Research – Who embodies the American Spirit? Knowledge:
 * UNIT SIX: Social Change **

Big Idea: Essential Questions: Texts: Supplemental Materials: Assessments: Essential Vocabulary assessment Culminating Activity – Final Assessment for Semester Two Star Reading Post-Assessment Knowledge:
 * UNIT SEVEN: The American Journey **

**Powerful speeches throughout history – connect to rhetorical devices and historical time periods**