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ROCKDALE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2012-13
American Literature and Composition Curriculum Map Year-Long
RCPS focus CCGPS for each quarter are noted on instructional planning guides
1st 9 Week: UNIT ONE
2nd 9 Weeks: UNIT TWO
3rd 9 Weeks: UNIT THREE
Focus: Literary Text
Focus: Informational Text
Focus: Literary Text
Suggested theme: Fear/Persecution in Early Suggested theme: Individual
Suggested theme:
American literature/Literary comparisons
vs. Society (Romanticism,
Reconstructing the American
Argumentative/persuasive Writing
Transcendentalism)
Dream (Civil War), Realism,
Baseline literary assessments (Data from
Informative/Explanatory
Modernism, Harlem
Grade 10 Write Score)
Writing; Research
Renaissance, Jazz Age
Summer reading (1 Week)
connections to social studies
Use of structure and language
Secondary Focus: Informational Text
and/or science
Informative/Explanatory
Research connections: Use to support
Analyze effect of structure
Writing: Daily writing, revising
analyses (3-6 of literary/informational
Secondary Focus:
ideas with details
texts), author research
Literary Text: Theme/motif
Effective organizational
Routine Writing (e.g., notes, summaries,
Author use of pronouns,
structures
writing to learn, process journals)
diction, syntax patterns,
Effective use of transitions
Focus: Cite textual evidence to support
colloquialisms, humor,
Routine writing
analysis of what the text states
figurative language.
Argumentative/persuasive
Determine theme and analyze
Argumentative/persuasive
Writing
Vocabulary: annotation, archetype, climax, Writing: Revise ideas with
Secondary Focus:
diction, extraneous, inference, literal,
supporting details, edit for
Informational Text
resolution, rising action, symbol, theme
clarity/coherence
Effective presentation
Grammar/conventions: Use various types Use parallel structure
Narrative Writing
of phrases/clauses (noun, verb, adjectival,
Routine Writing
Vocabulary: Alliteration,
adverbial)
Vocabulary: Satire, irony,
exposition, précis, scene, motif,
Use semicolons/conjunctive adverbs to link
sarcasm, understatement
tone
related independent clauses
Grammar/conventions: Use
Grammar/conventions: Use
Appropriate use of punctuation, spelling
of hyphenation
of grammar and punctuation
Collaborative conversations/presentations Use of effective
for clarity, coherence, and
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Commo grammar/conventions in
effect in writing
n-Core/Pages/ELA-9-12.aspx
writing
Benchmark assessment
Benchmark assessment
Common final assessment
(9 Weeks)
(7-8 Weeks)
(9 Weeks)
4th 9 Weeks: UNIT FOUR
Focus: Informational Text
Suggested theme: Modern
Times, Modern Heroes
Argumentative/persuasive
writing: Use of logical support
for a claim, effective use of
literary and rhetorical devices
Use of mentor text as models
for emulating
Citing sources for writing
Author’s purpose
Conveying information
effectively
Routine writing
Secondary Focus: Literary
Text
Narrative/Poetry Writing
Grammar/conventions:
Review/embed necessary
instruction/practice
Summer reading selections
Common final assessment
(9 Weeks)