The Friends, R osa G uy Enco untering the U nexpected (Plot and

Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
1 of 12
1; 1C; 1E;
2C; 5; 5A;
5B; 5C; 7;
7A; 13B;
13C; 13D;
14; 14C;
15Ci;
1, 2, 4, 5, 6
17Ai; 18;
18A; 18B;
18Bi-iii;
19; 19A;
20B; 26;
FIG19;
FIG19B
ELPS
4RF;
4RG;
5WE;
5WF
CCRS Theme
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
Novel
The Friends, Rosa Guy
8
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Encountering the Unexpected (Plot and Setting)
1st
August 25 - September 3
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Selections & Features
Literary
Elements
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket by Jack Finney
analogies,
write a summary, create
respond to characters,
conflict,
academic
suspense, write
resolution, point
analyze moral
analyze art, discussion
vocabulary, use advertisements; WS: 388,
of view
dilemmas
of a glossary
88, 94
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
allegory, setting
Other: The Open Window by Saki ; An Astrologer's Day
by R.K. Narayan ; Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe
interpret imagery,
analyze historical
content
analogies
write an expository essay,
write a journal entry; WS:
136-193, 4-5
analyze art,
discussion, create
dialogue
context clues,
identify sequence,
compound
interpret imagery,
analyze art, oral
words, word
analyze cultural
flashback, plot,
write a report, apply
presentation, follow a
origins, academic
context, analyze
mood,
description, write a list;
process, follow
vocabulary,
characterization, imagery and symbols,
WS: 358-441
instructions, vary pace
connotation and
analyze historical
dialect
context, synthesize denotation, Latin
words
sources
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
2 of 12
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
ELPS
CCRS Theme
Novel
Selections & Features
2LF;
3SG;
4RF;
4RG;
4RJ;
5WG
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
8
1B; 1E;
5A; 5B;
5C; 7; 11;
11B; 12;
12A; 15;
15A; 15Ai1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
vi;15B;
6
15Ci; 16A;
18; 18A;
18Bi-iii;
19; 19A;
26; FIG19;
FIG19B
Making Choices (Theme and Character)
1st
September 4 - September 15
Tuesday Siesta by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri
Cry of the Ancient Mariner by Carl Safina (informational
text)
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
word parts,
academic
vocabulary,
foreign word
origins
create a travel brochure,
write a letter, verbals;
WS: 754-755
analyze art, discuss
proverbs
context clues
write a short story,
identify simile, describe a
analyze art, analyze
character, analyze point
geography, combine
of view, sentence
sentences
combining; WS: 321-332,
105, 352, 580, 590-591
Literary
Elements
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
description,
character
make inferences about
theme, analyze cause
and effect
theme,
motivation
compare and contrast
characters, analyze
plot, understand
historical context
identify irony
determine the main
idea and supporting
details, interpret
meaning
use persuasion; WS: 194251
connect to personal
experience, make
generalizations,
write a personal essay,
respond to literature,
understand sequence,
word usage,
write a story, understand
evaluate imagery,
academic
motivation,
complex sentences,
analyze diction,
vocabulary, use
theme,
Other: Two Kinds by Amy Tan ; To Da-duh, in Memoriam
analyze art, literature
sensory details, write an
syntax, and tone,
context clues,
characterization,
group
by Paule Marshall ; The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela
essay, understand
make inferences about
synonyms,
irony
prepositional phrases;
characters, analyze
analyze usage
quotations, analyze
WS: 321-322, 591, 87, 94,
figurative language,
103, 581, 771
analyze cause-andeffect relationships
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
3 of 12
1C; 2; 2A;
5; 5B; 6;
7A; 12A;
12D; 13;
13C; 15Bi; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
15Ci; 17A;
17Ai; 24A;
24C; 25;
26;
FIG19A
ELPS
2SE;
3SA;
3SB;
3SH;
3SI;
4RG;
5WG
CCRS Theme
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
Novel
Selections & Features
COMPARING LITERATURE: Through the Tunnel (short
story) by Doris Lessing , The Vision Quest (short story)
by Lame Deer , Dear Pie, from Rules to Live By (letter)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
My Antonia, Willa Cather
9
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Encountering the Unexpected (Narrator and Voice)
1st
September 16 - September 26
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Literary
Elements
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
compare and contrast,
visualize, identify
point of view,
cause-and-effect
identify conflict
relationships, compare
and contrast theme
Speaking, Listening, & Viewing Workshop: Personal
Narrative Presentation
understand formality
and tone
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
write a letter, write a
paragraph, spatial order,
write paragraphs,
analyze art,
infinitive and
discussion, present an
prepositional phrases,
oral report
prewrite; WS: 596-603,
590, 581, 85
personal narrative, plan,
draft, revise, edit; WS: 79120
Writing Workshop: Personal Narrative
Media Workshop: Evaluate Media Messages
antonyms
Writing/
Grammar
discuss narratives
tone and sound
plan presentation,
create visual media,
rehearse
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
4 of 12
2A; 6; 7;
8; 9; 9C;
13A; 13B;
14C; 20A;
21A; 21C;
22; FIG19;
FIG19B
1, 2, 3, 4
ELPS
3SD;
3SE;
3SH;
4RF;
5WD
CCRS Theme
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B; VAC
Novel
Selections & Features
from Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
The Power of Memory (Autobiography and Biography)
2nd 7
September 29 - October 7
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Living Well. Living Good. by Maya Angelou
First Impressions from De Kooning, An American
Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Other: from Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki
Houston and James D. Houston ; Typhoid Fever, from
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt ; Terwilliger Bunts
One, from An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Literary
Elements
theme, voice
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
context clues,
academic
vocabulary
write a research report,
write a script, write about
life experience; WS: 358441, 334-343
discussion, oral
report, using visual
aids
analogies,
academic
vocabulary
apply tone, summarize
exposition; WS: 340, 342,
322, 326
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
analyze cause-andeffect relationships,
make inferences,
identify problem and
solution
make generalizations
about author's beliefs,
anecdote, voice
evaluate voice in
nonfiction
make generalizations
author's purpose, about events, evaluate denotation and
biography
connotation
syntax, make
inferences
summarize, evaluate
tone, evaluate diction,
historical
analyze controlling
narratives,
idea, analyze style,
autobiography,
draw conclusions,
theme, voice,
connect to personal
memoir, humor
experience, analyze
organization
word parts,
academic
vocabulary,
analogies
write a comparisoncontrast essay, write
interview questions; WS:
610, 622
analyze art,
multimedia
presentation
write an informational
report, write an
interview, use dashes,
write a persuasive essay,
analyze art,
quotation marks and
discussion, evaluate a
dialogue, run-on
speech
sentences, write
humorous anecdote,
write dialogue; WS: 358441, 676-677, 194-251,
668-671, 89, 592, 605
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
1, 2, 3, 4
1A; 1C;
2A; 2C; 3;
6; 8; 9;
9A; 9B;
9C; 9D;
12; 12D;
13C; 15;
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
15Ai-vi;
6
15D; 17;
17Ai-iii;
17C; 18;
18A; 18Biii; 19; 19A;
20B; 24C;
25
CCRS Theme
4RA;
4RD;
4RG;
5WD
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
1LSB; IA; IIA3SA;
D;
5WA; IIIA&B
5WC;
;
5WD; IVA&
5WE
B
Novel
Night, Elie Wiesel
1D; 2A; 9;
9A; 9C;
21B; 23C;
FIG19;
FIG19A;
FIG19B
ELPS
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,
Ernest J. Gaines
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Keeping Freedom Alive (Logic and
Persuasion)
2nd 14
October 14 - October 31
2nd 4
October 8 - October 13
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Quests and Encounters
(Expository and Personal Essay)
5 of 12
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
Selections & Features
A Swimming Lesson by Jewelle L. Gomez
narrative essay,
author's purpose
activate prior
knowledge
context clues,
academic
vocabulary
use descriptive details;
WS: 87
analyze art, literature
group
structure, voice
draw conclusions
about meaning,
analyze figurative
language
synonyms,
academic
vocabulary
write a reflective essay
debate
The Tuscon Zoo by Lewis Thomas
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
Writing/
Grammar
Literary
Elements
Straw into Gold, The Metamorphosis of the Everyday
by Sandra Cisneros
analyze text structure,
thesis, author's
make inferences about
purpose
character
COMPARING LITERATURE: The Leader in the Mirror
(essay) by Pat Mora , My Mother Pieced Quilts (poem)
by Teresa Palomo Acosta , from My Journey Home
(essay) by Andrew Lam
tone, figurative
language
Writing Workshop: Analytical Essay
Speaking, Listening, & Viewing Workshop: Illustrated
Presentation
write a personal
narrative, write a recipe; analyze art, discussion
WS: 78-135
write a letter, gerunds,
analyze argument,
discuss, compare and
compound-complex
analyze text structure, practice with
contrast
usage, analogies sentences; WS: 223, 754,
analyze graphic
768, 424
elements
analyze persuasive
techniques, analyze
argument
They Said He Was a Lousy Speaker by Douglas L. Wilson
(informational text)
Keep Memory Alive, from Nobel Prize Speech by Elie
Wiesel
analogies,
academic
vocabulary,
adopted words
speech
rhetorical devices
analyze rhetorical
devices, infer author's
purpose
practice with
usage
write an essay
prewrite, draft, revise,
edit, verb tense and
mood, publish, plan
research, sentence style
and variety, tone and
audience
prepare a script
plan presentation,
listen responsively,
body language
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
6
TEKS
3; 3A; 7;
14B;
FIG19;
FIG19A
Reporting
Categories
ELPS
CCRS Theme
3SD;
3SH;
4RD
1, 2, 3
HOLIDAY: November 11 (Veterans Day)
13TH WEEK DISTRICT BENCHMARK: November 17-21
HOLIDAY: November 24-28 (Thanksgiving)
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B; VAC
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
Novel
Selections & Features
Literary
Elements
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel,
Avi
3rd
November 3 - November 10
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
The Energy of the Everyday (Form and Structure
and Poetic Forms)
6 of 12
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
line, stanza
analyze tone, analyze
sound techniques
context clues
write a character speech
analyze art
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? by William
Shakespeare
meter, rhythm,
personification
analyze form
analogies,
academic
vocabulary
write a sonnet
discussion
Ode to My Socks by Pablo Neruda
free verse,
structure
monitor
comprehension,
analyze graphic
elements
synonyms,
academic
vocabulary
write a research report;
WS: 358-441
Three Haiku by Matsuo Basho
haiku, line, stanza
interpret imagery
academic
vocabulary
apply imagery, syntax;
WS: 635
write a monologue,
analyze poetic
enjambment,
enjambment, movie
structure, analyze
assonance,
word usage,
Other: Creatures by Billy Collins ; Reapers by Jean
scene, organizing
rhythm and meter,
rhyme, rhyme
word origins,
Toomer ; A Storm in the Mountains by Aleksandr
structure, write a prose
visualize, apply
scheme,
analogies,
Solzhenitsyn ; The Print of the Paw and To An Aged Bear
poem, rewrite poetry,
background
alliteration, prose
academic
by N. Scott Momaday ; Two Tanka by Lady Ise ; Woman
apply imagery, syntax,
knowledge, compare
poetry, speaker,
vocabulary, word
with Kite by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
write a poem, write a
and contrast imagery,
tanka, verse
parts
descriptive narrative; WS:
make inferences about
paragraph
320-357
theme
oral presentation,
present a research
report, group
discussion
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
2, 3
3; 6; 7; 8;
9; 9A; 9B;
9D; 13C;
13D; 13E;
14B; 15;
15Ai-vi;
15Bi;
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
15Biii;
6
15D; 17;
17Ai-iii;
18; 18A;
18Bi-ii; 19;
19A; 20A;
24C
1LSE;
5WD
CCRS Theme
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
3SG; IA; IIA3SH;
D;
4RK; IIIA&B
5WC;
;
5WD; IVA&
5WG
B
Loves and Losses (Imagery and
Figurative Language)
2C; 3; 12;
12A; 13C;
14B
ELPS
Novel
Selections & Features
Literary
Elements
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes and Heart!
We Will Forget Him! by Emily Dickinson
personification,
rhythm, rhyme
compare and contrast
tone, analyze word
choice
antonyms,
academic
vocabulary
write an expository essay;
WS:136-193
Down by the Salley Gardens and He Wishes for the
Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
lyric poetry,
speaker, theme
analyze repetition and
rhyme, personal
response
context clues,
academic
vocabulary
write an expository essay;
WS: 136-193
since feeling is first by E.E. Cummings
juxtaposition
paraphrase, compare
imagery
academic
vocabulary
write an essay
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
discussion
mood, verse
analyze diction,
write an argumentative
denotation and
paragraph,
examine structure,
essay, write a description,
connotation,
Other: The Meadow Mouse by Theodore Roethke ; I Am metaphor and
preview and review,
write an essay, write a
analyze art, oral
academic
Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca ; Horses simile, repetition,
analyze imagery, draw
summary, write a
interpretation, small
vocabulary, word
tone, imagery,
Graze by Gwendolyn Brooks ; Parlor by Rita Dove ;
conclusions about
description, write a
group discussion, take
usage, context
diction, narrative
Secondhand Grief by Sherman Alexie ; Ballad of
meaning, visualize,
dialogue, develop ideas,
notes
clues, word
poetry, rhyme
Birmingham by Dudley Randall
apply background
apply form; WS: 195-234,
origins
and rhyme
knowledge
460, 388, 89
scheme
miss rosie by Lucille Clifton
alliteration
We Are Family by Chang-rae Lee (informational text)
Picture Bride, Yoshiko Uchida
3rd 12
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Issues of Identity (Alliteration, Assonance,
Consonance, Onomatopoeia, and Rhyme)
4
December 1 - December 18
3rd
November 11 - November 21
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
7 of 12
COMPARING LITERATURE: Dream Boogie and Motto
(poems) by Langston Hughes , Dizzy Gillespie, Explorer rhyme and rhyme
scheme
of New Sounds from Giants of Jazz (biography) by Studs
Terkel , Playing Jazz (letter) by Winston Marsalis
interpret imagery
analyze cultural
context
compare theme,
compare author's
perspective, make
inferences about
theme
academic
vocabulary
write an essay
analyze art
usage, context
clues
write an annotation,
write a paragraph; WS:
252, 139, 197, 255
small group
discussion, oral
presentation, listen to
Jazz Music
plan, draft, revise, edit,
publish
Writing Workshop: Interpretive Response Essay
plan presentation,
communicate ideas,
rehearse
Speaking, Listening, & Viewing Workshop: Oral
Response to Literature
Other: After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost ; Arabic
Coffee by Naomi Shihab Nye
assonance and
consonance,
alliteration,
symbol
clarify meaning,
analyze rhythm
synonyms,
academic
vocabulary
write an expository essay,
write free verse; WS: 136193
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
8 of 12
1A; 2B;
2C; 4; 4A;
7; 9; 9C;
10; 10A;
11; 11A;
11B; 12;
12B; 12D;
14B; 16C;
17Ai; 21C;
22B; 23A;
23D; 24C;
25; 26;
FIG19;
FIG19A
1, 2, 3, 5
ELPS
2LD;
3SD;
3SE;
3SH;
4RD;
4RF;
4RG;
4RJ;
5WG
CCRS Theme
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
Novel
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Loyalty and Betrayal (Tragedy)
4th 17
January 5 - January 27
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Selections & Features
Literary
Elements
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I by William
Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II by William
Shakespeare
analyze theme,
monologues,
identify character
soliloquies, and traits, identify author's
asides
purpose, identify
sequence
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act III by William
Shakespeare
plot
analyze figurative
language, analyze
archetype, determine
main idea and
supporting details,
identify cause-andeffect relationships
foil, theme
make and verify
predictions,
summarize
tragic hero,
theme
evaluate characters,
determine cause and
effect, determine
sequence
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IV by William
Shakespeare
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
synonyms
write an editorial, write a
research report, write an
extended metaphor,
commas with
introductory words, write
a description; WS: 235244, 358-441, 111
analyze art, reading
fluency
word usage
write a summary, write a
research report, parallel
sentence structure,
identify adverb clauses;
WS: 388, 463, 623, 629,
358-441, 284, 770
analyze art, read
verse aloud
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
make inferences about
characters, examine
blank verse,
Shakespeare's
foreshadowing,
language, analyze an
symbol, irony
argument, analyze
archetypes
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V by William
Shakespeare
SPRING DISTRICT BENCHMARK: February 9-13
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
context clues,
identify root
words
write a memo, identify
infinitive phrases, write analyze art, analyze
political speeches,
blank verse, write an
build consensus
argumentative essay; WS:
590, 195-234
write a journal entry,
commas in a series, write
denotation and
a research report, analyze
connotation
Shakespeare; WS: 4-5,
646-655, 358-441
analogies,
academic
vocabulary
write a script, write a
research report,
superlative statements,
vivid verbs, college
readiness; WS: 333-346,
358-441, 108, 756, 758
analyze art, oral
report, recitation
analyze art,
discussion, media
presentation
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
9 of 12
1A; 1E; 2;
2B; 8; 9;
9C; 12;
12D; 15Ci;
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
16A-D;
24A; 24B;
26; FIG19;
FIG19A
4RA;
4RD;
4RF;
4RG;
5WG
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
IA; IIAD;
IIIA&B
;
IVA&
B
Novel
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
2LF;
3SH;
4RA;
4RD;
5WB
CCRS Theme
The Red Badge of Courage,
Stephen Crane
1B; 1D; 2;
3; 4; 5A;
7; 9; 9A;
12; 12B;
13C; 14C;
16; 16A-F;
17; 17Ai1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
iii; 17C;
6
18; 18A;
18Bi-ii; 19;
19A; 20B;
21A; 22B;
23B; 23C;
24C; 25;
26
ELPS
Portraits of Real Life (Comedy and Modern Drama)
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Acts of Courage (The Hero)
5th 12
February 23 - March 18
4th 13
January 28 - February 20
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Selections & Features
COMPARING LITERATURE: The Ring of General Macias
(drama) by Josefina Niggli , Marked (poem) by Carmen
Tafolla , The Ring (short story) by Isak Dinesen
Literary
Elements
characterization,
motif
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
compare theme,
compare cultures,
analyze plot and
setting, visualize,
analyze symbolism,
analyze plot
Writing/
Grammar
write an interior
analyze art,
monologue, write an
discussion, reading
analysis, write an essay,
word parts,
fluency, advocate a
analyze free verse,
connotation and
position, evaluate
perfect tenses, vary
denotation
irony
sentence length; WS: 253306, 748, 47, 587-588
plan, draft, revise, edit,
precise language
Writing Workshop: Persuasive Speech
from Le Morte d' Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
farce, irony,
archetypes in
farce, structure
dialogue, hero
word origins,
recognize author's
academic
purpose, understand
vocabulary,
motifs, analyze mood,
denotation and
analyze slang
connotation
analyze plot, make
predictions, identify
author's purpose,
summarize plot
dialogue, epic
identify genre, make
inferences
apply irony, write a
research report, proper
adjectives, write a
summary, write a list,
write stage directions;
WS: 358-441, 682, 756
word origins,
academic
write a short dialogue,
vocabulary,
analyze art, give
write a paragraph, write a
analyze
instructions, retell a
persuasive essay; WS: 89,
etymology,
legend
194-251
denotations and
connotations
preview, analyze text
structure, analyze
textual elements
What Makes a Hero by Amanda Ripley (informational
text)
Sundiata by D.T. Niane
present speech,
rehearse pace
plan delivery,
rehearse, evaluate
speech, appeal to
emotion and logic
Speaking, Listening, & Viewing Workshop: Persuasive
Speech
Other: A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov ; That's
Your Trouble by Harold Pinter
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
write a summary
denotation and
connotation
write an idiomatic
description, understand
Latin affixes; WS: 704-709
debate
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
10 of 12
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
ELPS
CCRS Theme
Novel
Selections & Features
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Literary
Elements
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
archetypes,
suspense
compare and contrast,
synthesize, analyze
individual scenes,
analyze rhythm and
meter
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
write a blurb, write a
response, write an essay,
dashes for parenthetical
information; WS: 225,
676
analyze art,
discussion, oral
interpretation
STATE ASSESSMENT: March 30 - April 2
HOLIDAY: April 3 (Easter)
IA; IIA2LD;
D;
3SH;
IIIA&B
4RF;
;
4RF5;
IVA&
5WG
B
Beowulf, translated by Furton Raffel
2B; 3; 5A;
9; 9A; 11;
11B; 13B;
13C; 13D;
13E; 15;
15Ai-vi;
17; 17Ai- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
iii; 17C;
18; 18A;
18Bi-iii;
19; 19A;
21; 21C;
23A-E;
24C; 25
Rescuing and Conquering (Myth and Oral
Tradition)
5th 12
March 19 - April 10
HOLIDAY: February 27 (Charro Days)
HOLIDAY: March 9-13 (Spring Break)
COMPARING LITERATURE: Where the Girl Rescued Her
Brother (legend) by Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross ,
John Henry (tall tale) by Zora Neale Hurston , A Song of
Greatness (song) by Anonymous
paraphrase
researched
information
Writing Workshop: Research Report
plan, draft, revise, edit,
publish, develop style
plan presentation,
choose media,
write an outline; WS: 626- develop and organize
presentation,
627
rehearse and deliver
presentation, pace
Speaking, Listening, & Viewing Workshop: Multimedia
Presentation
Other: The Stealing of Thor's Hammer by Brian
Branston ; Theseus by Edith Hamilton
synonyms
plot pattern
archetypes, myth,
image archetypes
make inferences about
word usage,
write and respond to a
characters, analyze
analyze art,
academic
story, the verb to be ,
historical context,
multimedia theatrical
vocabulary, word write an expository essay;
summarize, identify
production, discussion
parts
WS: 136-193
sequence
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
11 of 12
ELPS
CCRS Theme
1A; 1B;
1C; 1D;
1E; 2; 5A;
5C; 5D; 7;
12; 12B;
2LC;
13C; 13D;
2LG;
IA; IIA14A; 15;
3SB;
D;
15Ai-vi;
3SC; 3SI;
IIIA&B
15Ci; 15D;
1, 2, 4, 5, 6
4RF;
;
17; 17Ai4RK;
IVA&
iii; 17B;
5WC;
B
18; 18A;
5WD;
18Bi-iii;
5WG
19; 19A;
23C; 24A;
26; FIG19;
FIG19A;
FIG19B
Novel
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson OR Frankenstein,
Mary Shelley
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
The Extraordinary and the Fantastic (Figurative Language, Imagery, Diction)
6th 22
April 13 - May 12
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
Selections & Features
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
diction,
personification
identify genre
analogies,
academic
vocabulary
apply figurative language,
reciprocal pronouns; WS:
109
analyze art
By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet
narrator,
archetypes, point
of view
visualize, analyze a
song
word usage,
academic
vocabulary,
understand
write an evaluation,
capitalize proper nouns;
WS: 55-68, 682, 686
speech, analyze art
COMPARING LITERATURE: What I Have Been Doing
Lately (short story) by Jamaica Kincaid , People at Night
(poem) by Denise Levertov , A Dream (poem) by Anna
Akhmatova
stream of
consciousness
compare and contrast,
interpret imagery,
analyze cultural
context
analogies,
understand
suffixes
write a steam-ofconsciousness essay,
write a comparisoncontrast essay, create a
graphic organizer; WS:
610, 624-627
discussion, analyze
art, descriptive
presentation, multigenre response
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (informational text)
analogy, theme
archetype,
analyze a scene
activate prior
knowledge
context clues
rewrite a scene; WS: 151
oral report, debate
The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
Writing/
Grammar
Literary
Elements
word origins,
make inferences about
motivation, style,
context clues,
characters, activate
mood
multipleprior knowledge
meaning words
write an expository essay,
write a character sketch,
dashes, write a news
analyze art, visual
article, write a review;
literacy, monologue
WS: 136-193, 676-677,
430
Writing Workshop: Short Story
prewrite, draft, revise,
dialogue, vivid verbs and
adverbs, coordinate and
cumulative adjectives;
WS: 574-575, 166-167,
282, 578-579, 576-577
Speaking, Listening, & Viewing Workshop
create a story board; WS:
438
fantastic
analyze text structure,
Other: One Legend Found, Many Still to Go by William J.
denotation and
creatures, point of recognize author's
Broad ; Bread by Margaret Atwood
connotation
purpose
view
oral interpretation
analyze art, compare
write a summary, write a
media accounts, oral
story; WS: 321-332
report
Brownsville Independent School District
2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks
Subject: ENGLISH II
12 of 12
1B; 9; 9A;
10; 10B;
11; 11A;
11B; 13C;
15Bi-iii;
17Ai; 20A;
20B; 23E
HOLIDAY: May 25 (Memorial Day)
FINALS WEEK: June 1 - 5
1, 3
ELPS
CCRS Theme
IA; IIA3SJ;
D;
4RD;
IIIA&B
4RF;
;
5WD;
IVA&
5WF
B
Novel
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
OR Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
TEKS
Reporting
Categories
Functional and Workplace Documents
6th 12
May 13 - June 5
Six
Days Dates
Weeks
Selections & Features
Literary
Elements
Grade: 10
Resources: Glencoe: Texas Treasures and Texas Write Source (WS)
Reading Skills &
Vocabulary
Strategies
Writing/
Grammar
Speaking,
Listening, &
Viewing
LESSON 1: E-mail, Application, and Cover Letter
distinguish fact and
opinion, make
generalizations,
summarize, draw
conclusions, evaluate
details, evaluate
procedural texts
write a business letter,
write a synopsis; WS: 506509
LESSON 2: Professional Article, Schematic, Software
Product Information, and Installation Guide
identify sequence,
summarize, draw
conclusions,
paraphrase, clarify,
evaluate procedural
texts, evaluate
graphics
write instructions
follow and give
instructions, present
an evaluation
LESSON 3: Memo, Travel Documents, Meeting Itinery,
Directions and Map, and Meeting Agenda
review, visualize,
make inferences,
synthesize, identify
sequence, evaluate
graphics, draw
conclusions,
summarize, clarify,
determine main idea
write travel directions,
write a business memo,
action verbs and active
voice; WS: 586, 166-167,
282
follow and give
instructions
LESSON 4: Pamphlet, Contract, and Web Site
determine main idea,
analyze cause-andeffect relationships,
compare and contrast
style, paraphrase,
determine main idea,
summarize, consumer
reviews
denotation and
connotation
write annotations,
prepare a bibliography,
use appropriate tone,
write research questions;
WS: 252, 383, 462, 494