English IV
Fall Semester | ||||
Unit Title | Reading and Writing the Narrative: Post-Secondary Essay | Rhetorical Situation | Researched Argument
| Timed Writing: Argument
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Time | 4-5 weeks | 4 weeks | 6-7 weeks | 1 week |
Understandings | The success of a text depends on how thoughtfully writers craft their message based on audience and purpose.
Authors animate and deepen their writing by using rhetorical devices, details, examples, and commentary.
Writers revise to make their writing more cohesive and easier to follow and understand. | Successful argumentation depends on the thesis and the quality of the appeals to the identifiable audience.
Successful argumentation depends on the clarity of the claim and the quality of the evidence that supports it.
Writers use genre conventions, rhetorical devices, and language to convey meaning. | Appropriately organized writing ensures that readers can follow the thinking and support of the writer’s purpose.
Authors animate and deepen their writing by using rhetorical devices, details, examples, and commentary.
Successful argumentation depends on relevant evidence combined with effective appeals in support of a clear, arguable claim.
Clearly and coherently combining the ideas of more than one source allows a writer to successfully support a thesis or claim. | Successful argumentation depends on the thesis and the quality of the appeals to the identifiable audience.
Successful argumentation depends on relevant evidence combined with effective appeals in support of a clear, arguable claim. |
TEKS | Priority TEKS: 8.A, 9B.ii, 9.C
Other TEKS: 3, 4.A, 4.I, 8.B, 9.A, 9.Bi., 9.D, 9.E, 10B | Priority TEKS: 5.J, 7.E.i-iii, 10.F
Other TEKS:2.A, 2.B, 2.C, 5.C, 5.D, 5.E, 5.I, 8.B, 8.C, 8.D, 8.F, 8.G, 11.G.i-ii | Priority TEKS: 9.B i-ii, 10.C, 11.F
Other TEKS: 4.F, 4.H, 5.H, 7.E i-iii, 8.A, 8.B, 8.D, 8.F, 8.G, 9.A, 9.C, 9.D, 9.E, G i-ii, H, I | Priority TEKS: 7.E i-iii, 10.C
Other TEKS: 4.F, 5.H, 8.A, 8.B, 8.D, 8.F, 8.G, 9.A, 9.B i-ii, 11.G i-ii |
Ongoing TEKS | 1A 1B, 2A, 3A, 4F, 4H, 4I, 5B, 8D, 9A, 9B, 11F, 11I | |||
Spring Semester | ||||
Unit Title | Literary Analysis
| Multigenre Survey of British Literature | Book Clubs | Multimodal Project
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Time | 3-4 weeks | 6 weeks | 5-6 weeks | 4 weeks |
Understandings | Proficient readers use specific text evidence to reach and express reasonable conclusions about an author’s intent and a text’s meaning.
The historical, social, and economic context of the setting of a literary work directly influence its plot, characterization, and theme.
Convincing analysis comes from a combination of effective organizing structure, an engaging idea, and astute commentary.
| The historical, social, and economic context of the setting of a literary work directly influence its plot, characterization, and theme.
Examining works and genres from different literary periods illuminates the impact British literature has had on the evolution of literature and thought.
Authors make specific decisions based on their audience, purpose, and message.
Successful writers are aware of genre expectations when composing literary or informational texts.
| Characters’ motivations and behaviors help shape the moral dilemmas that influence plot and theme.
Authors arrange and develop the plot(s) of texts in different ways in order to create meaning, create suspense and complexity for the reader, and mirror how readers think and experience life.
Authors use genre conventions, literary devices, and language to convey meaning.
| A good communicator is one who understands the audience and is able to adjust accordingly.
Multimodal literacy helps us to understand the ways media shapes our world.
Publishing and sharing our work gives us an authentic purpose to write.
Effective professional or friendly correspondence helps us to create and maintain positive relationships. |
TEKS | Priority TEKS: 5.C, 6.D, 9.B.i-ii
Other TEKS: 4.C, 4.D, 4.E, 5.A, 5.B,, 5.D, 9.A, 9.C, 9.D, 10.E | Priority TEKS: 6.D, 7.A, 8.A, 10.A
Other TEKS: 3, 4.E, 4.F, 4.H, 5.A, 5.F, 6.A, 6.B, 6.C, 7.B, 7C, 7.D.i, 7.Dii, 7.F, 8.D, 10.E | Priority TEKS: 6.B, 6.C, 10.E
Other TEKS: 1.A, 1.B, 1.C, 1.D, 4.B, 4.C, 5.A, 5.B, 5.C, 5.E, 5.G, 5.H, 5.J, 6.A, 6.D, 7.A, 8.E | Priority TEKS: 1.C, 7.F, 9.E, 10.D
Other TEKS:1.A, 1.B, 1.D, 9.A, 11.A, 11.C, 11.E, 11.H, 11.I
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Ongoing TEKS | 1A 1B, 2A, 3A, 4F, 4H, 4I, 5B, 8D, 9A, 9B, 11F, 11I | |||