English IV
Big Concepts this Year
SEMESTER ONE.
Beginning-of-year stuff: Getting-to-know-you activities, CommonLit assessment
Nonfiction narrative unit: Write a nonfiction personal narrative
Feed by M.T. Anderson: Synthesis essay
The Color of Water by James McBride: Photo essay and poetry booklet
SEMESTER TWO.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende: Compare/contrast essay
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: Group presentation
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang: Graphic organizer
Choice book unit
M.T. Anderson
James McBride
Isabel Allende
Khaled Hosseini
Gene Luen Yang
Daily/Weekly Routines
Daily warm-ups: This will include grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, parts of speech, and vocabulary.
Class novels: Each novel will take us four to six weeks to complete. This cycle will include reading the book, completing smaller assignments along the way, and then ending with a final essay or project. In English class, essays and projects are our final exams for each novel.
