9+Reading

**DRIVING QUESTION: //Why do our choices matter?//** **//How do our choices reflect our commitments?//**

**LITERARY TEXTS:**

 * // A Midsummer's Night Dream //
 * // Animal Farm //
 * // Greek myths //
 * // House on Mango Street //
 * // The Odyssey //
 * // Of Mice and Men (consider Esperanza Rising as alt) //
 * // 1984 //
 * // Oedipus Rex //

**POWER STANDARDS:**
Scheduled: Open Response: Of Mice and Men Sept/Oct || Scheduled: Quote Poster: Oedipus Rex Dec/Jan ||
 * ** 1. ** Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 * Common Assessment: Open Response, Of Mice and Men essay, Odyssey essay **
 * ** 2. ** Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
 * Common Assessment: Dialectical Journal Writing, Theme Tracking Posters [Of Mice and Men], Quote Poster [Oedipus Rex] **
 * ** 3. ** Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
 * Common Assessment: The Odyssey essay, Character Sketch Posters [A Midsummer Night's Dream] ** ||

Scheduled:Midsummer Night's Dream: Sonnet - February ||
 * ** 4. ** Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
 * Common Assessment: Sonnet Writing, "The Act 6 Project" for Midsummer Night's Dream, Journal Writing [House On Mango St] **
 * ** 5. ** Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
 * Common Assessment: "Act 6 Project" for Midsummer, House on Mango Street - journal writing. create mystery, tension, or surprise about something that happens in their own life. ** ||