Common Core Collaborative
Clare-Gladwin RESD
Clare High School English Curriculum Pacing Guide
Unit:
Essential Question(s)
Academic Vocabulary:
Reading Strategy:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Why does it matter? What makes
a story a “great” story?
Theme, symbolism, figurative
language, persuasion, point of
view, structure
How are biases of all kinds
harmful?
Close reading:
character
development,
conflict, and
theme
What is justice?
Use text aids
What is courage?
Pacing
Week 1-2
Anchor Texts
To Kill a
Mockingbird
Writing/Core Skills
Identify main ideas
Identify point of view and tone
Jim Crow and
Great Depression:
multi-media links
for background
Novel
Movie
Determine central ideas or
themes of a text and analyze
their development
CCSS
Assessment
RL.9-10.2
RL.9-10.6
Intro: Lee and Great
Depression/Historical
backdrop.
RL.9-10.3
RL.9-10.4
Test 1, pp-1-90
W.9-10.1
Test 2, pp 91-180
Assess how point of view or
purpose shapes the content and
style of a text
Identify Symbolism
Week 3-4
Novel
CCR
Identify Intro/Thesis
Organization/Transitions
Analyze how and why
individuals, events, and ideas
develop and interact over the
course of a text
Interpret words and phrases,
including figurative language,
and analyze how specific word
choices shape meaning or tone
Write arguments to support
claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or tests
Common Core Collaborative
Clare-Gladwin RESD
Week 5-6
Novel
OWL at Purdue
Week 7-8
Elements of
Writing
Identify Intro/Thesis
Organization/Transitions
Literary Analysis
MLA Style
Draw evidence from literary or
informational texts to support
analysis, reflection, and
research.
W.9-10.9
Test 3, pp 181-end
CHS 6-Traits Rubric
Thematic Review
AR Test