Honors English I Swain CORE Curriculum Map
Unit #1: Unit #2:
Non Fiction &
Methods of Communication
Text Types:
Selected works will analyze
reliable vs. unreliable
narrators, overview literary
forms, audience, tone, and the
use of evidence and analysis
to construct argument. Texts
may include essay, memoir,
autobiography, speech, etc.
Unit #/Name
Suggested Works:
Tipping Point
The Sixth Extinction
Black Men in Public Spaces
English 99
Behind the Formaldehyde
Curtain
Toothpicks in Jello
I Want a Wife
The Biggest Play off His Life
The People in Me
Latina
Excerpts from Civics
Communication is essential to
Big Idea achieve personal liberties and
fulfill personal responsibilities.
1. What are the formal and
informal methods of
communication and
when should each be
Essential employed for maximum
Questions: effectiveness?
2. How do authors achieve
their purpose(s)?
3. What are the
components of reliable
Unit #3: Unit #4:
Fiction Focus Drama Focus Poetry Focus
Text Types: Text Types: Text Types:
Selected works will highlight the Selected works will focus on Selected works will focus on poetic
Heros Journey, traditional plot the key components of drama devices and forms, including style,
structure, character development and stage performance, tone, mood, figurative language
and setting for overall effect. including terminology. and theme, rhyme, meter, etc.
Suggested Works: Suggested Works: Suggested Works:
The Odyssey King Lear Shakespearean Sonnets
As I Lay Dying On Sitting Down to Read King Porphyrias Lover
Big Fish Lear Once Again Musee de Beaux Arts
The Yellow Wallpaper Macbeth Ode to a Nightingale
Cask of Amontillado The Brightside of Happiness Spoon River Anthology
The Metamorphosis Poetics Part VI We Grow Accustomed to the
A Modest Proposal Classical Unities Dark
The Smile on Happy Changs The Star Excerpts from Civics
Face 12 Angry Men
Spoon River Anthology excerpts A Midsummer Nights Dream
(poetry as fiction) Excerpts from Civics
Cats Cradle
Excerpts from Civics
Society is influenced by fiction and Life enacted as a social experience Poetry is a condensed, meditative
fiction is influenced by society. results in social response and has process of understanding complex
for centuries. ideas and concepts.
1. What is the heros journey and 1. Who is Shakespeare and 1. What is the effect of society
where does it occur throughout why do we care about him on the individual?
literature? so much? 2. How should an individual
2. How do characters develop 2. How does a live audience contribute to society?
across the plot of a text? affect the literary 3. How does poetic form affect
3. What are the characteristics of experience? meaning?
round and flat characters? 3. What is the effect of 4. How do extended metaphors
4. How do texts from different Shakespeare performed represent universal themes
cultures echo their values and vs. read? and/or concepts?
traditions? 4. How does gender affect
 and unreliable 5. How is fiction used as a tool literatures representation
narrators/voices? for social change? of social values?
6. What effect does narrative
voice have on text reliability?

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Competencies: Competencies: Competencies: Competencies:

Literary devices Literary devices Literary devices Literary devices
Modes of Five elements of fiction Social response Scansion, including iambic
communication and The journey Direct and indirect pentameter (meter)
technology integration Epic characterization Rhyme
Literary forms and their Satire Character motivation and Poetic conventions and forms
uses, including audience Irony outcome
and purpose and Adaptation Adaptation Skills:
informal and formal Identify influences of word
writing Skills: Skills: choice on tone
The revision and editing Literary analysis Navigation of acts and Identify and utilize various
Related
process Synthesizing and connecting scenes poetic forms properly
Competencie
themes and concepts from Live performance Create metaphor and
s/
Skills: multiple works Writing about and citing extended metaphor to
Transferable
Use of presentation Essay composition drama represent complex ideas
Skills
technology
Formal correspondence
such as letter and email
writing
Utilize tone for
effectiveness
Organizing a unified,
thesis driven essay
Proving a thesis with
appropriate textual
evidence

Note: All students in Honors English I will prepare a writing portfolio, which will be assessed at the end of their sophomore year. This portfolio
is part of the SCHS English departments common assessment. This portfolio is a Google Drive collection of all work completed in English I.
Assessment Other common assessments may include the following: conversation pieces, unified essays, research essays, reader response journals,
creative artwork, collaborative projects, tests, reading quizzes, and any other routine formative assessments.