Instructional Planning: Long-Term Plan

Name: ______Edith Filomeo_________

Big Class Goal: Students become more aware of their place as an individual in a society and
what it means to be part of a community. Students learn skills that can help them to both
express their own individual voice and how to increase the voices of the members of their
communities. Student's will do this through writing, speaking, and reading skills.
Unit sequence: Units start from a focus on the individual, move into that of the community, and
end with larger more abstract concepts that unite individuals across the world.
Students will be utilizing the textbook Collections for all readings and materials for units.

Beers, G. K., Hougen, M. C., Jago, C., McBride, W. L., Palmer, E., & Stack, L.
(2015).Collections. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

COURSE OVERVIEW & TIMING

This section is designed to help you see the flow of your units/topics across the entire school year.

Unit Unit Length

Unit 1: Finding Common Ground 13 days

Unit 2: The Struggle for Freedom 13 days

Unit 3: The Bonds Between Us 12 days

Unit 4: Sweet Sorrow 18 days

Unit 5: A Matter of Life or Death 12 days

Unit 6: Heroes and Quests 12 days

OVERALL COURSE TIMING

This section is designed to help you compare the number of available instructional days/weeks to the
number of days/weeks you have accounted for in your Long-Term Plan.

Course Length

Total number of instructional weeks/days in school Semester: 88 days

Total number of instructional weeks/days for all units included in Long-Term

80 days
Plan:

UNIT 1: Finding Common Ground UNIT 1 LENGTH: 13 Days

 UNIT 1 LEARNING GOALS

analyze and evaluate an author's claim and delineate and

evaluate an argument

analyze author's choices concerning text structure; determine and

support inferences about the theme; and cite text evidence to
support analysis of the text

determine a central idea and analyze its development over the

course of a text

analyze an author's purpose and the use of rhetorical devices in a

seminal U.S. document

analyze the representation of a subject in two different mediums

Plan and deliver a speech about how people can learn to live
together

Performance Task or

Write an essay discussing how symbols or images can convey ideas

about the individual's role in society
RL1 Cite textual evidence.

RL4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases.

RL5 Analyze how an author's claims are developed.

Common Core
Standards RL6 Determine an author's point of view and analyze how an author uses
rhetoric.

Rl8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and claims in a text

W1 Write arguments

UNIT 2: The Struggle for Freedom UNIT 2 LENGTH: 13 Days

UNIT 2 LEARNING GOALS

analyze a seminal U.S. document and the impact of its rhetoric

analyze connections between ideas and events and analyze

 accounts in different mediums

analyze how an author unfolds events in a diary and analyze the

impact of word choice on tone

determine author's point of view and analyze accounts in different

mediums

analyze an author's point of view and cultural background, and

also analyze an author's choices about style and structure

Write an argumentative essay about whether freedom should be

Performance Task
given or must be demanded.

RL1 Cite textual evidence

RL2 Determine a central idea.

RL3 Analyze how the author unfolds ideas or events.

RL4 Analyze the impact of word choices on meaning and tone.

RL5 Analyze how ideas or claims are developed.

Common Core
RL6 Determine an author's point of view or purpose and analyze
Standards
rhetoric.

RL7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different

mediums.

W3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences.

W 3d Use precise words and phrases.

L4c Consult reference materials to determine etymology.

UNIT 3: The Bonds Between Us UNIT 3 LENGTH: 12 Days

UNIT 3 LEARNING GOALS

cite textual evidence to analyze character and theme in a short

story and to support inferences about themes

delineate and evaluate an author's claims and determine the

 technical meanings of words used in the text

analyze an author's point of view and cultural background and

also analyze the impact of word choice on tone

analyze how an author unfolds a series of ideas in an

informational text

interpret figurative language

analyze the purpose and development of ideas in a public service

announcement

Write a narrative about interpersonal connections that employs

narrative techniques

Performance Task or

Develop a group multimedia presentation that explores the bonds

that people form.

RL1 Cite textual evidence

RL2 Determine a theme of a text.

RL3 Analyze how characters develop over the course of a text and
develop the theme.

RL4 Analyze word choices.

Common Core
Standards
RL5 Analyze an author's choices concerning how to structure a
text.

W3 Write narratives.

L 1b Use various types of clauses.

L4b Identify and correctly use patterns of word changes.

UNIT 4: Sweet Sorrow Unit 4 Length: 18 days

UNIT 4 LEARNING GOALS

analyze ideas presented in an essay and determine word

 meanings

analyze how a modern artist draws on and transforms source

material for a new artistic expression

analyze character motivations and parallel plots

analyze source material

analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material

and how an author's choice of point of view creates desired effects

Performance Task Write an analytical essay exploring an aspect of love

RL1 Cite textual evidence

RL2 Determine a theme of a text.

R3 Analyze ideas

RL4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases used in the text.

RL5 Analyze an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order

events, and manipulate time.
Common Core
Standards W10 Write routinely over extended and shorter time frames

SL1 Participate in collaborative discussions

L1b Use various types of phrases

L4a Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

L4c Consult reference materials

L4d Verify the meaning of a word or phrase.

UNIT 5: A Matter of Life or Death UNIT 5 LENGTH: 12 Days

UNIT 5 LEARNING GOALS

analyze an author's purpose and his use of rhetoric and the

impact of word choice on tone

delineate and evaluate an argument by examining a claim and the

evidence provided to support that claim.
 analyze ideas and events presented in the text, determine central
idea, and summarize the text

analyze the impact of an author's choices and make inference

about theme

determine the meanings of figurative language and how it

influences tone in poetry

Write an argument about the personal qualities necessary for

survival

Performance Task or

participate in a panel discussion about how people adapt in order

to survive
RL1 Cite textual evidence

RL2 Determine a theme of a text.

RL4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases used in the text.

RL5 Analyze an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order

events, and manipulate time.

Common Core
RL6 Analyze a particular cultural experience reflected in literature from outside
Standards the United States

W2 Write informative/explanatory texts.

L3 Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style.

L4 Determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words and phrases.

L 4c Consult reference materials.

UNIT 6: Heroes and Quests UNIT 6 LENGTH: 12 Days

UNIT 6 LEARNING GOALS

analyze elements of an epic poem, such as plot, setting, theme, and

character as well as its figurative language

determine the central idea of a text, analyze the ideas and events
 presented, and cite text evidence

delineate and evaluate an argument

interpret figurative language

Performance Write an analytical essay about the factors that motivate people to
Task undertake arduous journeys.
RL1 Cite textual evidence

RL2 Determine a theme of a text.

RL3 Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text

RL4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases used in the text.

RL5 Analyze an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events, and
manipulate time.

Common Core
RL6 Analyze a particular cultural experience reflected in literature from outside the
Standards United States

W3a Write narratives to engage and orient the reader.

W3d Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language

L 1d Use various types of phrases.

L 4c Consult reference materials to determine meaning.

L 5a Interpret figures of speech in context.