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VT-VA-EOC-SOL-11th Grade Reading
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Topic Lesson Lesson Objectives
Diagnostic PreTest
Word Analysis Strategies and Word Reference Materials
Roots and Affixes
Grammar: Greek Roots and Affixes
Determine the meaning of words containing Greek roots and affixes.
Identify and define various Greek roots and affixes by examining words containing them.
Provide evidence of the lasting influence of Greek in the English language.
Connotation and Denotation
The Role of Vocabulary
Understand the difference between connotation and denotation.
Apply vocabulary strategies to understand text.
Define the term vocabulary as it relates to text.
Context Clues
Word Analysis
Define word analysis and why it is important when reading.
Understand how to use parts of speech to determine word meaning.
Use connotation and denotation in word analysis.
Use context clues to help determine the meaning of unknown words.
Idioms
Grammar: Word Study
Grammar Skill: Analyze etymology and identify idioms, metaphors, and similes in word analysis.
Figurative Language
Skills Lesson: Figurative Language and Imagery
Analyze how an author's choice of language impacts mood and theme
Recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language and imagery
Allusions in Literary Nonfiction
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Disobedience
Analyze the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in an argument.
Examine and evaluate the use of historical allusions in a text.
Summarize the author's purpose of a letter.
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Demonstrate Comprehension of Fictional Texts: Part One
Main Idea
Ordering the Chaos of the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Freakonomics
Analyze an argument for structure and logic.
Evaluate evidence in an argument.
Summarize central ideas in a text and analyze their development.
Summary
Writing Workshop: Summary
Relate the central ideas of a text to your reader in an objective and clear manner.
Vary sentence patterns to enhance the style of a text.
Write an informative paragraph that summarizes the central ideas of a passage clearly and accurately.
Previewing and Predicting
The Strategy Focus: Previewing and Predicting
Apply previewing strategies to different types of text.
Define the strategies used in previewing.
Identify the different types of text.
Identify the strategy of previewing.
Poetry
Skills Lesson: Essentials of Poetry
Define poetry and compare major poetic categories, including fixed and free forms, and rhymed and unrhymed.
Differentiate the major terms used in poetry interpretation, including stanzas, rhyme, rhyme scheme, meter, feet, and imagery.
Examine various literary devices used in poetry.
Poetry: Musical Devices
Skills Lesson: Musical Devices
Literary Skill: Identify musical components of poetry; rhythm, rhyme, repetition, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia
Literary Nonfiction
Skills Lesson: Expository: Nonfiction
Compare and contrast the characteristics and purpose of different types of nonfiction: autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, articles, essays, and
personal accounts.
Examine how authors use language to establish mood and tone in nonfiction texts.
Explore the use, purpose, and significance of nonfiction in our world.
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Myths
Skills Lesson: World Myths
Identify and describe the characteristics, components, and purposes of myths and other oral traditions.
Interpret literature to develop a global awareness of shared human values and experiences.
Read, analyze, and evaluate traditional and classical works of literary merit from civilizations around the world.
Use literature to develop a global awareness of diverse cultural traditions and beliefs.
Drama
Skills Lesson: Drama
Define literary terms related to drama (soliloquy, aside, monologue, etc.).
Identify and describe the components of staging a play.
Interpret stage directions to evaluate how they reveal elements of plot and character.
Summarize the historical background and structure of drama.
Literary Terms: Figurative Language
Fireside Poets
Analyze the structure of a poem.
Compare and contrast two nineteenth-century poems.
Interpret a poet's word choice and use of sensory language.
Demonstrate Comprehension of Fictional Texts: Part Two
Elements of Literature: Plot
Skills Lesson: Plot Structures
Describe and analyze the development of plot structures in specific literary works and their impacts on the reader.
Identify subplots and explore their significance.
Recognize a variety of plot structures.
Elements of Literature: Setting
Skills Lesson: Setting - Mystery and Suspense
Analyze the setting and examine how the setting --and changes in setting-- impact the plot, characters, and mood.
Examine the importance of setting and sequence in creating an effective mood for a mystery or thriller.
Recognize the characteristics of the mystery and suspense genres.
Elements of Literature: Characters
Skills Lesson: Conflict, Moral Dilemma, and Character Analysis
Analyze characterization over the course of a text
Identify conflict across genres
Identify moral dilemmas in various genres
Teach a lesson to peers using specific strategies to improve the effectiveness of spoken instructions
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Elements of Literature: Perspective and Narration
Skills Lesson: Perspective and Narration
Evaluate the credibility of literature based on voice and the choice of a narrator, speaker, or persona
Explain how voice and the choice of a narrator, persona, or speaker affect characterization and the tone, plot, and credibility of a text
Elements of Literature: Theme
Skills Lesson: Theme
Determine the central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development
Evaluate how word choice advances an author's theme
Universal Themes
Skills Lesson: Universal Themes
Literary Skill: Identify what a universal theme is and different types of universal themes such as courage, love, justice and good and evil.
Author's Style
Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
Analyze how word choice and tone contribute to the voice of a poem.
Analyze the effect of free verse structure.
Make inferences about the themes of a poem.
Author's Word Choice
Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Analyze how word choice is used to create imagery in minimalist verse.
Compare and contrast two poems by the same author.
Critically read a poem to analyze its language and structure.
Examining Historical Context
The Declaration of Independence
Analyze how the structure of a text contributes to its purpose.
Evaluate the effectiveness of reasoning in a seminal US text.
Understand the historical significance of a primary-source document.
Exploring Irony
Critiques of American Society in Science Fiction
Analyze how an author uses irony and satire in science fiction.
Examine the impact of character development in a story.
Generate questions to interpret societal messages in science fiction.
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Comparing Texts Across Genres
Exploring Cultural Identity through Language
Analyze the way an author establishes voice.
Evaluate the style and effectiveness of rhetoric.
Synthesize and contrast the arguments of two texts.
Demonstrate Comprehension of Nonfiction Texts: Part One
Exploring Structure, Details, and Purpose
Thomas Paine
Analyze rhetorical technique and cite evidence to support its effectiveness.
Examine the purpose of a text through the author's choice of language.
Interpret figurative language to make meaning of a text.
Locating Information and Text Structure
Reading Strategy Lesson: Locating Information and Text Structure
Apply sound strategies to interpret and evaluate search engine results.
Examine how to use text structure to locate pertinent information online and offline.
Recognize and distinguish the features of online and offline informational texts.
Use and interpret search tools effectively, including the table of contents, index, and search engines.
Summarizing Texts
Reading Strategy Lesson: Summarizing
Evaluate and revise summaries and paraphrases for completeness and accuracy.
Identify and apply strategies to locate and distinguish important details in both fiction and nonfiction.
Identify both unstated and stated main ideas and topics in fiction and nonfiction.
Use a graphic organizer to track important notes that will aid in summarizing a piece.
Charts and Graphs
Charts and Graphs
Differentiate among different types of charts and graphs.
Identify important features of charts and graphs.
Interpret charts and graphs and analyze the data.
Informational Texts
Skills Lesson: Expository: Procedural Texts
Compare and contrast the characteristics and purpose of different types of procedural texts, including operational manuals, directions, recipes, and rules
for games.
Evaluate and describe how to glean and use information in procedural texts and documents.
Follow extended multi-tasked or multi-dimensional instructions in informational or technical texts.
Write a journal explaining the process or procedure of an activity.
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Exploring Procedural Texts
Media Literacy: Decoding Legal and Governmental Forms
Analyze the structure and format of functional workplace documents
Critique the logic of functional documents
Determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and technical meanings of words through context clues
Read and evaluate functional text documents
Analyzing Procedural Texts
21st-Century Skills: Exploring Procedural Texts
Critically read and interpret instructions
Evaluate the clarity, quality, effectiveness, and general coherence of a speaker's important points, arguments, evidence, organization of ideas, delivery,
diction, and syntax
Examine the structure, format, and logic of procedural texts
Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience
Write procedural texts that follow an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context
Career and College Applications
21st-Century Skills: Career and College Applications
Analyze the structure and format of functional career-related documents
Read and evaluate functional career-related documents for clarity, tone, and style appropriate for purpose and audience
Demonstrate Comprehension of Nonfiction Texts: Part Two
Characteristics of Texts
The Strategy Focus: Text Structure
Recognize different text formats and purposes.
Recognize different types of text structure.
Use previewing to identify text structure.
Author's Purpose: Comparing Texts
The Poetry of Physics
Cite evidence to analyze messages within and between texts.
Evaluate information from different sources and media.
Summarize and compare the central ideas of two texts.
Examining Paradox in Literary Nonfiction
Vietnam Literary Journalism
Analyze an author's use of paradox.
Analyze an author's use of sensory details to create imagery.
Make inferences about the features of a literary nonfiction text.
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Making Inferences
Asian American Voices
Analyze how central ideas are built in an essay.
Make inferences about a text and cite evidence to support the analysis.
Summarize the central ideas in an essay.
Generalizing Ideas to Make Predictions
Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"
Analyze the sequence of events in a nonfiction text.
Apply prior knowledge to generate ideas about a nonfiction text.
Evaluate the significance of an early American text and its influence on future philosophies.
Exploring Fact and Opinion
Skills Lesson: Fact and Opinion
Literary Skill: Interpret, describe, and analyze the characteristics and uses of fact and opinion.
Identifying Argument and Rhetoric
Nonfiction: "At the Hearth" by Laura Esquivel
Analyze gender roles among cultures through literature
Determine an author's perspective or purpose in a text
Evaluate how theme in literature is related to the historical and social context of the text
Exploring Irony in Literature and Literary Nonfiction
Introduction to Heritage and Multicultural American Identities: Contemporary Voices (1970-2000)
Analyze an author's use of irony to convey a message.
Determine themes of heritage, identity, and multiculturalism in texts.
Investigate contributions of diversity in late twentieth-century literature.
Evaluating Arguments
Skills Lesson: The Elements of Argument
Analyze the validity and soundness of an argument
Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning
Examine the structure of an argument
Identify how to address and rebut counterclaims properly in persuasive writing
Characteristics of Persuasive Texts
Abolition and Women's Rights Movements, Part 1
Analyze repetition and questioning as rhetorical devices in a speech.
Evaluate how an author structures reasoning within an argument.
Examine the historical significance of a speech.
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Gathering Information
Skills Lesson: Gathering Information
Differentiate between a quotation, a paraphrase, and a summary
Identify different systems for organizing and tracking information and sources
Diagnostic PostTest
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