FULTON HIGH SCHOOL
2015-2016 PACING GUIDE
11th Grade English
FIRST SEMESTER
1ST QUARTER
Unit 1: Native American Mythology
Lesson: Why myths exists/fundamentals of mythology
Lesson: Analysis of “World on the Turtle’s Back”
Lesson: Analysis of “The Sky Tree” and “The Earth Only”
Lesson: Analysis of “The Way to Rainy Mountain”
Assessment:
Essay
Reflection
Unit 2: American Colonial Writing
Lesson: Foundations/characteristics of colonial thought and writing
Lesson: Read and analyze “A Model of Christian Charity”
Lesson: Read and analyze “Sinner’s in the Hands of an Angry God” and
“Minister’s Black Veil
Assessment:
Analysis Paper
Unit 3: Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”
Lesson: Salem Witch Trials vs. McCarthyism
Lesson: Read “The Crucible”
Assessment:
Multiple projects throughout each act
Partner research paper
Final essay
Exam
Unit 4: Transcendentalism
Lesson: Leading up to transcendentalism
 “The Crisis, No.1”
 “The Federalist, No. 10”
 Excerpt from Ben Franklin’s Autobiography
Lesson: Foundations/characteristics and founders of transcendentalism
Lesson: Thoreau
Lesson: Emerson
Lesson: Walt Whitman
Assessment:
End of unit paper
Brochure activity
Outdoor writing “Walden” activity
Unit 5: Slave Narratives
Lesson: fundamentals/characteristics
Lesson: Douglass and Jacobs
Lesson: Slave spirituals as poetry
Lesson: narrative and broadside exploration/analyzing
Assessment:
Broadside activity
Unit 6: Realism
Lesson: fundamentals/characteristics of realism
Lesson: examples:
-“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
- “A Mystery of Heroism”
- “War is kind”
- “We Wear the Mask”
Lesson: Mark Twain (irony and sarcasm)
Lesson: Mark Twain (serious essays)
-A New Crime
Assessment:
“A New Crime” research paper
Unit 7: Modernism
Lesson: fundamentals/characteristics of modernism
Lesson: F. Scott Fitzgerald biography/background of the Fitzgerald’s
Lesson: “The Great Gatsby”
Assessments:
Chapter Quizes and Homework questions
Gatsby Party Execution/Presentations
Gatsby Exam
Gatsby Papers
2nd Quarter
Unit 8: Harlem Renaissance & Civil Rights writing
Lesson: Foundations/characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance
Lesson: Hughes and Hurston
Lesson: “A Raisin in the Sun”
Lesson: Martin Luther King Jr. rhetorical devices in:
 “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

“I Have a Dream”
Assessment:
Quiz/test
Rhetorical device exam
Unit 9: American/Cold War Science Fiction
Lesson: Characteristics/History of Science Fiction
Lesson: Science Fiction as literary film
Lesson: Ray Bradbury
Lesson: “Fahrenheit 451”
Assesesment:
Paper/essay
Novel projects
Quick writes
Analysis activities
Unit 10: Contemporary Non-fiction
Lesson: Foundations of contemporary non-fiction
Lesson: “Trophy Syndrome” Op. Ed. analysis
Lesson: “Brain Candy” Op. Ed. analysis
Lesson: “Modern Families” Op. Ed. analysis
Lesson: “Trouble Makers” Op Ed. analysis
Lesson: “Us and Them” Op. Ed analysis
Assessment:
Opinion Editorial Essay
Unit 11: Contemporary American Poetry
Lesson: Characteristics of modern poetry
Lesson: Spoken Word Poetry
Lesson: Written poetry
 “Mushrooms”
 “Latin Deli”
 “The Beep, Beep, Beep Poem”
Assessment
Poetry Presentation