English 10 interg. w/ Global 3 - Curriculum Map November

Content

Utilize details effectively
Make transitions in writing pieces
Understand how multiple levels are conveyed
Introduce Critical Lens Session 2 Part B
Produce Literary Interpretations
Compare and Synthesize information from various sources
Activate Schema
Find main idea, important facts and supporting detail
Suggested Resources
Novels
Great Expectations - Dickens
David Copperfield - Dickens
To Live - Yu Hua
City of Light - Lauren Belfer
The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
Short Stories/Essays
The Prince - Machiavelli
Plays
Three Penny Opera
Oliver!
Les Miserables
Movies/Films
Oil!
Dr. Zhivago

Skills

Interpret/Analyze complex informational texts
Make distinctions about relative value
Use perception to make connections
Present controlling idea both verbally and in writing
Continued Vocabulary building
Make use of background knowledge to make connections with new texts
Identify connections with Global Content
Purposeful participation in a collaborative setting
Writing dialogue
Identify flow of a play
Spelling of commonly misspelled words from content area vocabulary
Suggested Strategies
Play writing Workshops
Reciprocal Teaching
Group Analysis of text
Socratic Circles
Literature Circles
Peer Editing/Revision

Assessment

Session 2 Part B of Regents Exam
Group Evaluation of Play writing Project
Literary Analysis Essay
Research Paper
Teacher Created Assessments Using Bloom's Taxonomy (see Oct.)
Themes
Child Labor
Factory Development/Working
Tyranny/Monarchy/Dictatorship
Economic Dislocation
Poverty
Caste Systems

English Grade 10 Interdisc. w/ Global

Content

Elements of a Narrative
Quoting and Paraphrasing
Relating 2 or more texts
Introduce Session One Part B Regents
(reading & writing for information)
Develop Original ideas using supporting documentation
Apply non-fiction texts to ideas/tasks
Research/Bibliography
Primary/Secondary ResourcesSuggested ResourcesNovels
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Candide Voltaire
The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G.WellsEssays/Short Stories
Some Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke
Essay on the Custom & Spirit of Notions - Voltaire
Moral Theory - David Hume
Movies/Films
Gulliver's Travels
Issac Newton: A Tale of Two Issacs
Plays
The Tempest

Skills

Draw Conclusions, make inferences, make judgments, and predict outcomes based on historical events
Make inferences using context clues
Apply research material to current events and historical events
Identify Literary Devices (foreshadowing, suspense, irony, figurative language)
Extend reading vocabulary
Use Charts/Graphic Material to draw conclusions and connect ideas
Suggested Strategies
Use internet to locate primary sources
Use library reference material
Dictionary/encyclopedia skills
Graphic Organizers
Outlines
Research Groups
Fishbowl Activities
Socratic Circles
***Trip to NYC Public Library***

Assessment
Regents Session One Part B
Vocabulary Tests/Quizzes
Compositon/Essays
Group Research Project
Current Event Reports
Teacher Generated Assessment using Bloom's Taxonomy
-20% knowledge -20% comprehension -20% application -10% analysis -10% synthesis -10% evaluationThemes
Science and Nature
Nature and Mankind
Human Nature
Progressive Thinking
Philosophy
Good -vs- Evil
Social/Political/Religious Responsibility
Moral/Political Impacts on Science
Deism/Humanism/Christianity

Integrated Curriculum Map H6/E6

Here's the second semester. Please let me or Mr. Williams know if you have questions or comments.

Alex

February
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
What factors drove immigrants to the United States in the 2nd half of the 19th century?	The Jungle (Con't)
How did Americans respond to the needs of a multicultural population?	Secondary Texts:
What did political machines offer to new immigrants, and what did they receive from them in return?	My Antonia - Willa Cather
	Five Points - Tyler Anbinder OR Gangs of New York - Herbert Asbury
	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - William Riordon
A. Immigration
1. Distinguish between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd waves of immigration to the United States
2. Delineate between and describe the "push" and "pull" factors that brought immigrants to the USA
B. Political Machines
1. Identify prominent political machines, including Tammany Hall
2. Describe the workings of Tammany, including who supported them, how they supported them, and what they received in return
3. Evaluate the importance of the political cartoons of Thomas Nast to Tammany's downfall
C. Regents Strategies
March
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
What were the principal objectives of Progressive reformers?	Macbeth - William Shakespeare
How can economic, political, and military considerations drive American foreign policy?	Secondary Texts:
What factors drove the outbreak of war in Europe?	How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis
	Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane Addams
	All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
A. Progressive Era
1. Define Progressivism
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of Muckrakers like Riis, Nast, and Sinclair
3. Identify the groups that received the most assistance from progressive reformers
4. Describe the effects of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on how Americans viewed the excesses of big business
B. American Imperialism
1. Compare imperialism to colonialism
2. Name the three principal reasons that drove the USA to adopt imperialist policies
3. Describe the events that led to conflict between the United States and Spain
4. Evaluate the rationale of "yellow journalism" as used by Hearst during the Spanish-American war
C. World War I
1. Describe the principal causes of World War I in Europe
2. Compare American isolationism as practiced by Wilson in 1914 with Washington's Farewell Address.
3. Contrast patriotism and nationalism.
D. Regents Strategies
April
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
How do economic considerations drive foreign policy?	Literature Circle: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) OR To Kill a Mockingbird (H. Lee) OR Of Mice and Men (J. Steinbeck)
What responsibilities does government have to its citizens?	Secondary Texts:
How did unfinished business from World War I lead to World War II?	All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
A. World War I
1. Describe the reasons the United States finally decided to enter WWI
2. Evaluate Wilson's motivation for his 14 Points speech.
3. Debate the fallout from the Treaty of Versailles and describe how German resentment of the Treaty contributed to WWII
B. Great Depression
1. Describe the causes of the Great Depression
2. Describe the initial effects of the Great Depression on Americans
C. New Deal
1. Compare the actions taken by Hoover and FDR in response to the Great Depression
2. State the principal objectives of FDR's New Deal, as well as the mechanisms for action
3. Evaluate FDR's court-packing plan in light of the Supreme Court's rulings against New Deal legislation
E. Regents Strategies
May
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
Why does the United States begin to take on the role of global police force?	The Pearl - John Steinbeck
How was the Cold War an ideological conflict?	Secondary Texts:
When is war legitimate, and who decides?	Hiroshima - John Hirshey
	Red Scarf Girl - Ji-li Jiang
	Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
	The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
	The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
	Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Meyers
A. World War II
1. Describe the events that led to the second World War in Europe
2. Investigate the rise of totalitarianism in Europe
3. Describe why the United States got involved in another global conflict
4. Evaluate the effects of the use of nuclear weapons on Japan
B. Cold War
1. Compare and contrast the American foreign policies of isolationism and containment
2. Explore the differences between American-style capitalism and Soviet-style communism
3. Evaluate the impact of nuclear exchange on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States
C. Regents Strategies
June
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
Should the federal government be able to force states to obey national laws?	A Raisin in the Sun - L. Hansberry
What are civil rights? How are they obtained?	Secondary Texts:
What strategies and techniques characterized the civil rights movement?	Warriors Don't Cry - Melba Patillo Beals
	Letter from a Birmingham City Jail - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A. Civil Rights Movement
1. Explain the legal foundation for the decision in Brown v. Board of Education
2. Evaluate the conflict between the federal government and states which were resistant to the enforcement of federal laws
3. Compare and contrast the strategies used by MLK and the SCLC with those used by Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
4. Interpret the successes and failures of the civil rights movement in light of the Vietnam War
B. Regents Review

Integrated Curriculum Map H5/E5

This is really long. Sorry about that. Some changes still to be made (particularly Secondary Texts and Regents Strategies) but all comments are welcome.

Thanks - Alex

September:
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
How was North America different from Europe?	Literature Circle: The Crucible (A. Miller) OR The Scarlet Letter (N. Hawthorne) OR Johnny Tremain (E. Forbes)
Why did people choose to migrate to the New World?	Secondary Texts:
Why did colonists grow dissatisfied with British rule?	Letters of James and Dolley Madison
	Common Sense - Thomas Paine
A. 13 Colonies
1. Differentiate between the economies of the 13 colonies
2. Identify key geographical features of 13 colonies
3. Locate the 13 colonies on a blank map
4. Distinguish between the 3 colonial regions
5. Evaluate the motives and effects of British colonial laws
B. Declaration of Independence
1. Evaluate Jefferson's objectives in drafting and publishing the DOI
2. Distinguish between the four sections of the DOI
3. Identify the objective(s) of each section of the DOI
C. Revolutionary War
1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages held by the Patriots
2. Identify the advantages and disadvantages held by the British
D. Regents Strategies
1. Process of Elimination
2. Quick-scanning
3. Rewrites and explanations
October
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
How is the US Federal Government structured?	Literature circle (see September)
Why is the Bill of Rights important?	Secondary Texts:
How does the USFG respond to threats to its security?	Federalist Papers/Anti-Federalist Papers
A. Federalism
1. Explain how a federalist government is structured
2. Investigate the debates of the Continental Congress
3. Describe the problems attendant to a strong federal government and a weak federal government
B. Constitutional Philosophy
1. Define limited government, popular soverignty and checks and balances are critical to the American governmental system
2. Explain how changes are made to the Constitution
C. Structure of the Federal Government
1. Identify roles of each of the three branches
2. Explain how the branches check each other's powers
3. Describe how the federal government takes action
D. Early Threats to the Federal Government
1. Describe Daniel Shays' Rebellion and how it threatened Federal power
2. Evaluate the effects of President Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion
E. Bill of Rights
1. Explain what Constitutional amendments are
2. Evaluate why Americans believed that Constitutional amendments were important
F. Regents Strategies
1. compose effective introductions to Document Based Essays using the historical context and task box
2. Review Multiple Choice strategies and content from September
November
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
What technological factors enabled Americans to begin to settle away from coasts and major rivers?	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Why did a market economy begin to develop in the USA in the mid-1800s?	Secondary Texts:
What differences existed between North and South, and how did those differences lead to the development of sectionalism?	The Journals of The Voyage of the Corps of Discovery - Meriwether Lewis and John Clark
	Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
A. Westward Expansion
1. Evaluate the importance of the Louisiana Purchase to the USA
2. Summarize Jefferson's principal objectives in making the Louisiana Purchase
3. Explain how the Erie Canal and the National Road served to open the interior of the USA to trade and settlement
4. Describe the effects the Monroe Doctrine had on European settlement in the Western Hemisphere
5. Relate the foreign policies established by the Monroe Doctrine and Washington's Farewell Address
B. Development of the Market Economy
1. Describe the importance of the development of steam power to American industry and transportation
2. Analyze why canal construction dropped as railroad construction rose
3. Evaluate the importance of the development of manufacturing in the Northeast USA to the rise of a market-style economy
C. Sectionalism and Causes of the Civil War
1. Explain the economic, social, and political differences between North and South
2. Describe how the Missouri Compromise served to put off the question of Slavery in the USA
3. Analyze John Brown's motives in Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry
4. Articulate how sectionalism (and not slavery) was the cause of the Civil War
D. Regents Strategies
December
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
How did Sectionalism develop and lead to the Civil War?	The Piano Lesson - August Wilson
Was the South justified in seceding from the United States?	Secondary Texts:
How did the United States try to rebuild the relationship between North and South following the Civil War?	Text of Presidential Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
	The Red Badge of Courage - Steven Crane
A. Causes of the Civil War
1. Summarize the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and its effects
2. Define sectionalism
3. Describe how the economic, social, and political differences between North and South made the Civil War inevitable
B. Civil War
1. describe the advantages and disadvantages held by the Union
2. describe the advantages and the disadvantages held by the Confederacy
3. Evaluate Lincoln's motivations for the Emancipation Proclamation
4. Investigate the reasons for the New York City Draft Riots of 1863
C. Reconstruction Plans
1. explain what needed "reconstructing"
2. summarize the differences between Presidential, Radical, and Congressional Reconstruction plans
3. Evaluate the importance of a strong federal government in light of the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution
D. Regents Strategies
January
Content and Skills	Interdisciplinary Suggestions
Principal Themes:	Principal Text(s):
How did the advent of Oil and Steel change American industry?	The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
What was work like in the United States after the Civil War?	Secondary Texts:
What are labor unions, and how did they hope to help workers?	Oil! - Upton Sinclair
	Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
	Atlas Shrugged OR The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
	Poetry - Workers' Voices
	8 Hours for What We Will - Workers' Song
A. Rise of Industry
1. Compare the developments of the 1st industrial revolution with the 2nd
2. Evaluate the importance of oil and steel to the post-bellum economy
B. New American Economy
1. Define Laissez-Faire Economics, monopoly, and trust
2. Describe how the labor of American workers shifted from skilled labor to manufacturing
3. Define Social Darwinism, and relate it to the growth of Robber Barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller
4. Evaluate the importance of cross-country railroads and the homesteading system
5. Evaluate what motivated the federal government to allow laissez faire economic policy to offer such great assistance to big business
C. Rise of Labor Unions
1. Define labor unions, and describe their principal objectives
2. Explain why government tended to support management in early industrial conflict
3. Compare and contrast the conflicts at Haymarket and Homestead
4. Interpret the role the Federal Government played in industrial negotiations between unions and management
D. Regents Strategies

9th Grade Curriculum

Curriculum Map – Grade 9
September
Content

Literature & Integrated Studies
Short Stories
Spelling & Vocabulary
Grammar/Writing
Suggested Resources*Impact: 50 Short Stories*Things Fall Apart*Journey to Jo'burg*Cry Freedom

Skills

To Identify
Simile
Characterization
Conflict(internal & external)
Plot/Setting/Theme
Respond to Literature
Develop Topic Sentences
Vocabulary Resources
Suggested Strategies*Fish-Bowl*Socratic Circles*Literature Circles*Turn and Talk*Graphic Organizers*Inquiry*Reciprocal Teaching*Cornell Method (Note-taking)

Assessment

Written Response to readings
Quizzes on Vocabulary/Spelling
Journals reading/writing

Curriculum Map – Grade 10

Content
Define the meaning of and understand the consequences of plagiarism
Characteristics of the genres
Introduction to English Regents
Condense and Summarize Essential Information using paraphrasing, direct quotes while persevering author's voice
Identify Main Idea while exploring underlying meaning
Sequence and Chronology
Develop Original Ideas using supporting documentation
Research Studies
Bibliographies/Works Cited
Suggested Resources*Galileo by Brecht (play)*Don Quixote *The Man from La Mancha*The Giver*1984*Farenheit 451
Skills
Making predictions
Drawing Conclusions
Judgments based on Schema
Connecting Ideas/Synthesizing Information
Sequencing/logical order
Using plausible and precise language
Making proper transitions
Audience and Purpose
Note-taking
Suggested Strategies*Fish-Bowl*Socratic Circles*Literature Circles*Graphic Organizer
Assessment
Diagnostic Assessment Pre-test
Complete a Session One Part A Regents Exam
Diagnostic Composition
Reading and Writing Conferences
Quizzes on vocabulary and literary elements

Suggested Integrated Plan for English and Social Sciences

SUGGESTED INTEGRATED CURRICULUM -- ENGLISH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES





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