RHS GRADE 12 ELA CURRICULUM MAP, 2014-15
First Nine Weeks
Reading
Second Nine Weeks
Reading
Third Nine Weeks
Reading
Fourth Nine Weeks
Reading
Literary Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Beowulf
Informational Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Hamlet
Literary Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
A Modest Proposal
Informational Focus
Extended Anchor Text:
Frankenstein
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryGrendel
Canterbury Tales Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Murder in the Cathedral
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiterarySonnet 75 – Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 31 – Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 39 – Sir Philip Sidney
The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love – Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd – Sir Walter Raleigh
Sonnet 116 and 130 – William
Shakespeare
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryTo Althea From Prison – Richard
Lovelace
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
– Richard Lovelace
To His Coy Mistress – Andrew
Marvell
To the Virgins, to Make Much of
Time – Robert Herrick
Song – Sir John Suckling
A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning – John Donne
Holy Sonnet 10 – John Donne
Meditation 17 – John Donne
Sonnet XIX – John Milton
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Thematically Connected Text(s):
LiteraryThe Lamb – William Blake
The Tyger – William Blake
Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey – William
Wordsworth
The World is Too Much With Us –
William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron
Ozymandias – Percy Shelley
Ode to the West Wind – Percy
Shelley
On First Looking into Chapman’s
Homer – John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn – John
Keats
InformationalThe Story of Caedmon
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The Martyrdom of Thomas
Beckett
Film/Art/Other—
Excalibur
InformationalSpeech Before Her Troops
Holinshed’s Chronicles
King James Bible
Film/Art/Other –
Elizabeth “Golden Age” speech
InformationalJournal of a Plague Year – Daniel
Dafoe
A Dictionary of the English
Language – Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson –
James Boswell
Film/Art/Other
InformationalPrologue – Frankenstein
Newspaper articles about cloning
A Vindication of Women’s Rights
– Mary Wollstonecraft
Film/Art/Other –
Frankenstein – Kenneth Branagh
Writing
Writing
Writing
Writing
Argumentative Focus
Was Grendel born evil? (Nature vs.
Nurture)
How is Beowulf an epic hero?
Informative/Explanatory Focus
Act by act essay related to Hamlet
Informative/Explanatory Focus
Explain the themes of Frankenstein
in terms of contemporary ethics’
issues and discuss how the novel
continues to be relevant
Research Connection
Find and summarize a modern
article and demonstrates nature
vs. nurture; Web Quest; AngloSaxon, Roman Britain; The Middle
Ages; I-Search Career, College,
and Scholarship Project
Research Connection
Italian/European Renaissance,
Globe Theater, Web Quest
Argumentative Focus
Short writing assignments arguing
if selected pieces are satirical and
why
“No Man is an Island” Paul Simon
vs. John Donne comparison
Address a modern social problem
using satire
Research Connection
Restoration History; Cavelier
Poets; Metaphysical Poetry; Satire
Narrative
Write about a time you were
misunderstood.
Narrative
Passionate Shepherd Response
Poems
Routine Writing
Response Journals
ED-MODO
Summaries
Word Journals
Routine Writing
Response Journals
Summaries
Narrative
Students complete satire project in
which they develop their own
satirical piece
Routine Writing
Response Journals
Summaries
Poetry analysis paragraphs
Research Connection
Romanticism; Cloning; Modern
Social Problem and suggested
solutions
Narrative
Blake Project – Personified
animal poems
Routine Writing
Response Journals
Summaries
Poetry analysis paragraphs