Common Core Collaborative
Clare-Gladwin RESD
Clare High School English Curriculum Pacing Guide
Unit: A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Essential Question(s)
Academic Vocabulary:
Reading Strategy:
What do we truly know about the
world outside of ours?
memoir, interpret, stereotype, infer,
symbolize , conflict, imagery
Close reading: character
development, conflict, and
theme
In the face of adversity, what
causes some individuals to prevail
while others fail?
Pacing
Week 1
Anchor Texts
Boy Soldiers You
Tube Clip (Intro)
Writing/Core Skills
Note taking
Theme/Conflict
Novel, Chap 1-4
CCR
Analyze a complex set of ideas or
sequence of events and explain how
specific individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the course
of the text.
CCSS
Assessment
RI.11-12.3
RI.11-12.6
Verbal/Visual/Quiz 1
RI.11-12.3
RI.11-12.6
Verbal/Visual/Quiz 1
Determine an author’s point of view
or purpose in a text in which the
rhetoric is particularly effective,
analyzing how style and content
contribute to the power,
persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
Week 2
Chap 5-10
Note taking
Theme/Conflict
Analyze a complex set of ideas or
sequence of events and explain how
specific individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the course
of the text.
Common Core Collaborative
Clare-Gladwin RESD
Determine an author’s point of view
or purpose in a text in which the
rhetoric is particularly effective,
analyzing how style and content
contribute to the power,
persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
Week 3
Chap 11-15
Week 4
Chap 16-21
Write for College
(Lit. Analysis sample)
Note taking
Theme/Conflict
Analyze a complex set of ideas or
sequence of events and explain how
specific individuals, ideas, or events
interact and develop over the course
of the text.
RI.11-12.3
Verbal/Visual/Quiz 1
Transitions/Signal Phrases/In-Text
Citations
By the end of grade 12, read and
comprehend literary nonfiction at
the high end of the grades 11-CCR
text complexity band independently
and proficiently.
RI.11-12.10
W.11-12.1a
Verbal/Visual/Quiz 1
RL.11-12.1
W.11-12.1b
W.11-12.5
Lit Analysis
6-Straights Rubric
AR Test
Introduce precise, knowledgeable
claim(s), establish the significance
of the claim(s), distinguish the
claim(s) from alternate or opposing
claims, and create an organization
that logically sequences claim(s),
counterclaims, reasons, and
evidence.
Week 5-6
Write for College
OWL at Purdue
Transitions/Signal Phrases/In-Text
Citations/Peer Edit
Cite strong and thorough textual
evidence to support analysis of what
the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text,
including determining where the text
leaves matters uncertain.
Common Core Collaborative
Clare-Gladwin RESD
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims
fairly and thoroughly, supplying the
most relevant evidence for each
while pointing out the strengths and
limitations of both in a manner that
anticipates the audience’s
knowledge level, concerns, values,
and possible biases.
Develop and strengthen writing as
needed by planning, revising,
editing, rewriting, or trying a new
approach, focusing on addressing
what is most significant for a
specific purpose and audience.