RHS GRADE 10 ELA CURRICULUM MAP, 2015-16
First Nine Weeks
Reading
Literary Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Antigone/Night
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryMetamorphosis
Pride by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Do not Accept, A Jewish Cemetery in Germany,
Before, Forgetting Someone, Half the People of the
World, Memorial Day for the War Dead by Yehuda
Amichal
Excerpt from The Merchant of Venice (III.i.49-61)
InformationalUniversal Declaration of Human Rights
Wiesel’s Nobel Prize speech
First They Came by Niemoller
Origin of the Word Ghetto
Film/Art/Other –
Oprah Film – Visit to Concentration Camp with
Wiesel
Second Nine Weeks
Reading
Informational Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Lord of the Flies
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryA Walk to the Jetty
Through the Tunnel
There Will Come Soft Rains
I Stood Upon a High Place - Poem
We Wear the Mask
InformationalA View from the Summit OR
The Dog That Bit People
Carnival of Death, by Mark Gado
CPA – Hunger Games is the New LOTF
Film/Art/Other—
You’re Gonna Go Far Kid – Offspring
Lord of the Flies – Elton John
Lord of the Flies – Iron Maiden
Writing
Writing
Argumentative Focus
In Defense of Human Rights
The Symbols of Alienation
Human Rights in High Schools and American Society
Informative/Explanatory Focus
Nature vs. nurture: are men born evil or do they
circumstances make us evil?
Leadership styles: Who is the most effective leader?
The death of Simon: necessary or accidental?
Research Connection
Annotated Bibliography: leadership
Research Connection
Project – Annotated Bibliography and use sources for
Presentations
Narrative
1 page reflection on songs (see GA.org unit plan #1)
Routine Writing
Graduation Writing test practice
see GA.org unit plan #1
plus individual teacher assignments to be given at
their discretion
Narrative
Retell from Ralph’s POV
Rewrite the ending
Routine Writing
Graduation Writing test practice
Journal: Gender roles—how would this be different if
all girls?
Journal: analyze from the POV of a chorister
plus individual teacher assignments to be given at
their discretion
Third Nine Weeks
Reading
Literary Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Fourth Nine Weeks
Reading
Informational Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Macbeth
Cry, The Beloved Country
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryMacbeth speech Dante’s Inferno Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
A Passage To India by E.M. Forster (Public actions vs.
Private Life/Desires)
Like the Sun by R.K. Narayan (honesty leads your life,
truth and deception of conspirators wearing masks)
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryAchebe
No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing
The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy
River
A Private Experience by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
InformationalI Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Soldier’s Dilemma
Leadership documents (7 Habits or 10 Characteristics
of a Good Leader)
Media Propaganda
Film/Art/Other –
American Rhetoric
InformationalLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Andrew Jackson’s Speech to Congress on Indian
Removal
We Shall Overcome Speech by Lyndon B. Johnson
We Shall Overcome Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Film/Art/Other –
Cry, The Beloved Country, Film Adaptation
We Shall Overcome, Protest Song (1945)
We Take Care of Our Own by Bruce Springsteen
Writing
Writing
Informative/Explanatory Focus
Argumentative Focus
Analyze rhetorical devices in Shakespeare’s works
Practice GHSGT Writing
Compare Lady Macbeth to Portia—outward strength
Is Total Equality Possible? (see GA unit)
vs. inward weakness
Research Connection
Research Connection
Topic – Review of Literature of Rhetoric & Devices
Full Research Paper
Narrative
Narrative
Laws of Life
Immigrant life paper (see GA unit)
Routine Writing
Routine Writing
Graduation Writing test practice
Graduation Writing test practice
Laws of Life
see GA.org unit plan
Comparison of Antigone and Lady MacBeth –
plus individual teacher assignments to be given at their
portrayal of women in Shakespeare. Tie in Strength
discretion
speeches-outward strength and inward weaknesses
resulting in suicide.
Letters to conspirators