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|Prequel and Week 1 |introductions, rules and procedures, etc. |

| |short stories*, writing process: text features, daily GML, VOC/SP |

|Week 2 |short stories*, writing process: expository essay, daily GML, VOC/SP |

|Week 3 |short stories*, expository essay (continued), daily GML, VOC/SP |

|Week 4 |short stories*, position essay, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP |

|Week 5 |novel*, position essay (continued) , daily GML, weekly VOC/SP |

| |**see footnote |

|Week 6 |novel*, position essay (continued), daily GML, weekly VOC/SP |

| |**see footnote |

|Week 7 |poetry*, writing (response, interpretation, explication), response to literature, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP |

|Week 8 |poetry*, writing (summary, précis, paraphrase), response to literature (continued), daily GML, weekly |

| |VOC/SP |

|Week 9 |review and exams |

| |response to literature (continued) |

|Week 10 |nonfiction* (essays, autobiography, biography, informational text), text structures, distinguishing fact |

| |from opinion in different media, essay review, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP |

| |English II Writing Exam 10/14, 3/23 |

|Week 11 |novel*, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP, SATP practice |

| |**see footnote |

|Week 12 |novel*, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP, SATP practice |

| |**see footnote |

|Week 13 |drama*, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP, SATP practice |

| |District Assessment Test Week |

|Week 14 |drama*, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP, SATP practice |

|Week 15 |daily GML, weekly VOC/SP, SATP practice |

| |Thanksgiving Break/ Good Friday Break |

|Week 16 |STATE TESTING |

|Week 17 |enrichment/tech prep activities, daily GML, weekly VOC/SP |

|Week 18 |review and exams |

| |*All readings should address appropriate literary elements, inference, prediction, conclusion, author's |

| |purpose, etc. |

| |**Suggestion: Accelerated Classes may choose to cover their third novel outside class. |

| |*Each week prior to the writing exam, writing may include a new essay, continued work on the same essay, or a|

| |rewrite of a graded essay. |

|Key | GML= Grammar Mini-Lessons (Daily) : Based on the Enrichment Plus Review Guide for Writing and Grammar |

| |These should include the following: |

| |Parts of Speech |

| |Parts of a Sentence, to include objective complements |

| |Phrases, to include misplaced modifiers |

| |Clauses |

| |Sentence Structure, to include sentence combining, subordination, and parallel structure |

| |Usage, to include verb tenses, active versus passive voice, pronoun antecedent agreement, subject verb |

| |agreement, avoiding ambiguous pronoun reference |

| |Mechanics, to include capitalization (include regions of countries), punctuation (include commas to avoid |

| |misreading), semicolons to separate items in a list when items include commas, and single quotation marks |

| |within a quotation. |

| |VOC/SP= Vocabulary/Spelling (Weekly): Based on Enrichment Plus Review Guide for Vocabulary and Reading |

| |These lessons should include the following: |

| |Analogies |

| |Synonyms/Antonyms |

| |Connotation/Denotation |

| |Meanings from Context |

| |Figurative Language |

| |Formal versus Informal Language |

| |Word Choice |

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