11th ELA

Year at a Glance, 2021-2022

Challenges and Successes of the Twentieth Century How does postmodern text refect change in American values and culture?

The New World / Colonial America

A New Nation

American Romanticism

A Troubled Young Nation

Emerging Modernism

Big Idea

How did the philosophy of the Age of Reason infuence the founding of America?

How did world events infuence isolation and disillusionment in the early American twentieth century?

What infuences shaped Colonial America? What infuences shaped Colonial America?

What philosophies infuenced American Romanticism?

How did the 19th Century shape what it means to be an American?

Essential Question

Suggested Pacing

7-8 Weeks

6-7 Weeks

8-9 Weeks

5-6 Weeks

8-9 Weeks

Included with Unit 1

Informative/ Rhetorical Analysis

Argument/ Rhetorical Analysis

Argument/ Narrative

Argument/ Narrative

Informative/ Explanatory

Informative/ Explanatory

Writing Focus

Words for Review: Culture, Analysis, Point of view,

Argumentation, Claims, Counter-Claims, Evidence, Reasons

Paradox

Abolition, Mood Dialect

Culture

Prioritized Vocabulary

Simile, Metaphor, Allegory, Analogy,

Diction, Rhetoric, Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Rhetorical Device, Structure, Syntax Bias

Autobiography,Biograph y, Dialect, Naturalism, Realism, Regionalism, Satire

Flashback, Foreshadowing, Industrialization

Connotative language, Denotative language, frst person narration, unreliable narrator, third person limited, third

Tier II

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