10+Reading

**DRIVING QUESTION: //W//****//ha//****//t ma//****//kes us hum//****//an?What do we want to be human to mean?//** What do stories tell us about being human?

**LITERARY TEXTS:**

 * //A Lesson Before Dying//
 * //A Separate Peace//
 * //Antigone//
 * //Lord of the Flies//
 * //Macbeth//
 * //Ray Bradbury short story unit//
 * //To Kill a Mockingbird//

**POWER STANDARDS**
1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Scheduled: Oct: LOTF Reading Log, Jan: TKAM Post-it activity 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: //To Kill a Mockingbird// theme/motif chart, //To Kill a Mockingbird// theme essay, practice MCAS essays on theme Scheduled: Sept: Bradbury OR (Soft Rains) Dec-Jan: TKAM theme essay Assessment #1: Bradbury "Soft Rains" Open Response
 * Common Assessment: ** Reading log/reading notes

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. Scheduled: Mar: Macbeth character essay Assessment #2: //Lord of the Flies// Freudian essay
 * Common Assessment: ** //Lord of the Flies// character chart, //Lord of the Flies// psychoanalytical essay, //Macbeth// character essay, practice MCAS essays on character

**INFORMATIONAL TEXTS**

 * Jim Crow article

** POWER STANDARDS **
2. Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. Scheduled: Nov: TKAM Expert presentations
 * Common Assessment: ** Jim Crow Law information for //To Kill a Mockingbird// and A //Lesson Before Dying//

8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not. Common Assessment: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" analysis, research for persuasive research paper Scheduled: April: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" analysis