Unit 1: Travels and Journeys
Essential Questions:
- What inspires individuals to embark on journeys?
- What turning points determine our individual pathways to adulthood?
- How can a physical journey produce psychological change?
- What archetypes are central to journeys as portrayed in literature?
Literary Texts:
- The Odyssey
- The Inferno
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- memoir of student choice: The Basketball Diaries; Eat, Pray, Love; Girl, Interrupted; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Into Thin Air; A Long Way Gone; Rocket Boys; Run with the Horsemen; Running with Scissors; Three Cups of Tea; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Week of 2 August
Week of 9 August
Week of 16 August
- 8/17/10 QUIZ: modes of discourse
- 8/17/10 summer reading novels Socratic seminar (essential question)
- 8/19/10 TEST: summer reading timed-writing prompt
- 8/19/10 Vocabulary Lessons 1 & 2 review: cartoon creation DUE (instructions)
- memoir independent reading selection in media center
Week of 23 August
Week of 30 August
Week of 6 September
Week of 13 September
Week of 20 September
Week of 27 September
Week of 11 October
- independent work on Their Eyes Were Watching God portfolio project (instructions)
- The Odyssey Books 21 & 23 multiple-choice analysis
- 10/14/10 fall break BONUS assignment DUE (instructions)
- viewing of The Odyssey film and analysis of epic traits depicted (Epic PPT)
- reading and analysis of The Odyssey: "The Meeting of Father and Son," "The Beggar and the Faithful Dog," and "The Test of the Great Bow" (Odyssey sections, timeline assignment)
Week of 18 October
Week of 25 October
- 10/26/10 RCPS mock writing test (GHSGWT prompt)
- introduction of The Odyssey travel brochure project (assignment & rubric)
- media center work on The Odyssey travel brochure project (assignment & rubric)
Week of 1 November
Week of 8 November