11th Grade Literature & Composition – Semester A
PACING CHART
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
Intro to American Lit
Diagnostic Writing
Intro to American Lit
Diagnostic Test
UNIT 1-The
Beginnings
Native American Lit
Notes and Myth
Native American Lit
Read Myths
I-search- Creation Myths
Native American Lit
Narrative Writing- Creation
Myth /Drafting
Days 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
UNIT 1-The Beginnings
Native American Lit
Narrative WritingCreation Myth- Final
Day 11
The Puritans
Intro/Notes
Poetry- Bradstreet
Day 12
UNIT 1-The
Beginnings
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
The Puritans
William Bradford
Day 13
The Puritans
Jonathan Edwards
Imagery Activity
Day 14
Day 15
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
Intro/Notes
Moral PerfectionBenjamin Franklin
Day 16
Persuasion
Patrick Henry Activity
Thomas Paine Persuasive Writing
Persuasive WritingDebate/Planning/Drafting
Persuasive Writing- Final
Draft
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
UNIT 2-Age of Reason
Persuasive WritingFinal Draft
Wheatley/ Creative
Writing
Wheatley/ Creative
Writing
Day 21
Day 22
Day 23
Day 24
Day 25
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
“Psalm of Life”
Poetry Terms
Annotations
“Thanatopsis”- Terms
Annotations
Dark RomanticismNathaniel Hawthorn“Young Goodman
Dark RomanticismNathaniel Hawthorn“Young Goodman Brown”
Brown”
Socratic Seminar
Discussion
Dark Romanticism
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven”
Pre-reading Activity
Day 30
TAKE UNIT 2
TEST
TAKE UNIT ONE
TEST
UNIT 3-Romanticism
Introduction/Notes
Poetry Terms
Longfellow Activity
Day 26
Day 27
Day 28
Day 29
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
UNIT 3-Romanticism
Dark Romanticism
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven”
Socratic Seminar
RomanticismPoetry of Walt
Whitman
Romanticism- Poetry
of Emily Dickinson
Poetry of Walt Whitman
& Emily DickinsonCreative Writing
Day 31
Day 32
Day 33
Day 34
Day 35
UNIT 3Transcendentalism
UNIT 3Transcendentalism
UNIT 3Transcendentalism
UNIT 3-Transcendentalism
UNIT 3-Transcendentalism
Intro/Notes
Emerson- Nature
Into the Wild- Chapt1
Emerson- Self Reliance
Into the Wild- Chapt 1
Thoreau- Walden
Into the Wild- Chapt
2
Thoreau- Walden
Into the Wild- Chapt 3
Poster Making Activity
Into the Wild- Chapt 3
Day 36
Day 37
TAKE UNIT
FOUR
TRANSCENDENTAL
TEST
Day 38
Day 39
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism
Into the Wild- Fibal
Writing AssignmentDrafting/Planning
Into the Wild- Fibal
Writing AssignmentTyping/ In Lab
Day 40
11A Literature
EOCT Prep/ Final Review
UNIT 3Transcendentalism
Poster Making Activity
Into the Wild- Chapt 3
TAKE UNIT
THREE/ROMANTICISM
TEST