Common Core Curriculum Maps in English Language Arts, Grades 9-12

Written by Teachers, for Teachers xi

Introduction by Lynne Munson xiii

How to Use the Common Core Curriculum Maps xvii

Grade 9 1

Unit 1 Literary Elements and the Short Story 3

Unit 2 The Novel—Honor 13

Unit 3 Poetry—Beauty 23

Unit 4 Drama—Fate 37

Unit 5 Epic Poetry—Heroism 47

Unit 6 Literary Nonfiction—Reflection (the Memoir, the Essay, and the Speech) 57

Grade 10 67

Unit 1 World Literature: Latin and Central America 69

Unit 2 World Literature: Asia 81

Unit 3 World Literature: Africa and the Middle East 95

Unit 4 World Literature: Russia 107

Grade 11 119

Unit 1 The NewWorld 121

Unit 2 A New Nation 129

Unit 3 American Romanticism 139

Unit 4 A Troubled Young Nation 151

Unit 5 Emerging Modernism 163

Unit 6 Challenges and Successes of the Twentieth Century 173

Grade 12 185

Unit 1 European Literature: Middle Ages 187

Unit 2 European Literature: Renaissance and Reformation 201

Unit 3 European Literature: Seventeenth Century 211

Unit 4 European Literature: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century 221

Unit 5 European Literature: Nineteenth Century 231

Unit 6 European Literature: Twentieth Century 243

Appendix: Scoring Rubric 255

About Common Core 257

Acknowledgments 259

Index of Suggested Works 261