Unit 1To Kill a Mockingbird 
12 lessons4 Weeks
To Kill a Mockingbird 
 Week 1
Lesson 1
Week 1 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is commonly confused words and nouns. 
Lesson 2
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 1 
Introduction lesson on the author and novel, vocabulary words, write a literature response, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lesson 3
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 2
Learn about phrases and clauses, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
 Week 2
Lesson 4
Week 2 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is pronouns. 
Lesson 5
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 3
Learn about run-on sentences and sentence fragments, write a literature response, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lesson 6
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 4
Learn about quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing; examine pictorial evidence of US segregation, write a literature response, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
 Week 3
Lesson 7
Week 3 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is verbs. 
Lesson 8
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 5
Learn about what a moral dilemma is, how the American court system works, vocabulary words, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lesson 9
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 6
Learn about symbols, the Jim Crow era, found poetry, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
 Week 4
Lesson 10
Week 4 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is prepositions and conjunctions. 
Lesson 11
To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson 7
You will examine quotes, compare the book to film, and read and answer reading questions for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lesson 12
To Kill a Mockingbird Final Project
You will create and present an oral slideshow presentation about To Kill a Mockingbird and take a unit test. 
Unit 2Short Stories Unit
13 lessons4 Weeks
Short Stories Unit
 Week 5
Lesson 13
Week 5 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is adjectives and adverbs. 
Lesson 14
Short Stories Lesson 1 
Learn about the elements in a short story, allusions, dramatic irony, situational irony, read and answer questions about "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, and annotate and answer reading questions about "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.
Lesson 15
Short Stories Lesson 2
Learn about theme and write an objective summary for "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.
 Week 6
Lesson 16
Week 6 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is interjections and Parts of Speech labeling. 
Lesson 17
Short Stories Lesson 3 
Write a compare/contrast 4 paragraph essay on "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace."
Lesson 18
Short Stories Lesson 4
Learn about characterization, Edgar Allan Poe, Langston Hughes, and read and answer reading questions for "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. 
 Week 7
Lesson 19
Week 7 Grammar Bell Ringer 
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is subject-verb agreement. 
Lesson 20
Short Stories Lesson 5 
Learn about gothic fiction, foreshadowing, and read and answer reading questions about "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. 
Lesson 21
Short Stories Lesson 6
Learn about symbols and symbolism, controversy in literature, dystopian stories,  and read and answer reading questions on "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.
 Week 8
Lesson 22
Week 8 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is commonly confused words. 
Lesson 23
Short Stories Lesson 7
Learn about narrator, point-of-view, symbolism, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., adapting literature into film, and read and answer reading questions for "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and watch 2081 (short film adapted from "Harrison Bergeron").
Lesson 24
Short Stories Lesson 8
Learn about dialogue and how to write it. 
Lesson 25
Short Stories Final Project 
Write an original short story and take a unit test. 
Unit 3Poetry Unit
12 lessons4 Weeks
Poetry Unit
 Week 9
Lesson 26
Week 9 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is pronoun agreement. 
Lesson 27
Poetry Lesson 1 
Consider what poetry is, learn about how poets use denotation and connotation of words, read and analyze a poem, and read and answer reading questions from The Crossover.
Lesson 28
Poetry Lesson 2
Learn about sound, rhythm, and rhyme, and read poetry.
 Week 10
Lesson 29
Week 10 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is pronoun problems. 
Lesson 30
Poetry Lesson 3
Learn about figurative language, voice, and tone, and read and analyze poems.
Lesson 31
Poetry Lesson 4 
Learn about analyzing the deeper meaning in poetry using "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, read and analyze a poem, and read and answer reading questions from The Crossover.
 Week 11
Lesson 32
Week 11 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is commas, parentheses, and dashes. 
Lesson 33
Poetry Lesson 5 
Learn about how to annotate poetry, analyze poems from The Crossover, and read and analyze poems from British, Scottish, and Irish poets. 
Lesson 34
Poetry Lesson 6
Learn about sonnets and ekphrasis poetry, and read, analyze, and compare two poems. 
 Week 12
Lesson 35
Week 12 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is grammar review. 
Lesson 36
Poetry Lesson 7 
Learn about poetry recitation, record a recitation of a poem, and read and analyze poems from American poets.
Lesson 37
Poetry Final Project
Pick three mini-projects from creative to analytical to explore poetry and take a unit test. 
Unit 4Nonfiction Unit
12 lessons4 Weeks
Nonfiction Unit
 Week 13
Lesson 38
Week 13 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is commonly confused words. 
Lesson 39
Nonfiction Lesson 1 
Learn about biography, autobiography, and memoir; learn about the country your memoir takes place in; and read and answer reading questions about your chosen memoir. 
Lesson 40
Nonfiction Lesson 2
Learn about citation and plagiarism, about education around the world, paraphrasing, and read and answer reading questions about your chosen memoir.
 Week 14
Lesson 41
Week 14 Grammar Bell Ringer
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is colons and semicolons. 
Lesson 42
Nonfiction Lesson 3 
Learn about A.P.E. (Answer, Prove, and Extend), using quotations, and read and answer reading questions about your chosen memoir.
Lesson 43
Nonfiction Lesson 4
Learn about how to write a research expository essay, research the US civil rights movement, and read and answer reading questions about your chosen memoir.
 Week 15
Lesson 44
Week 15 Grammar Bell Ringer 
Each week a different grammar topic will be covered. This week's topic is commonly confused words. 
Lesson 45
Nonfiction Lesson 5 
Learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., letters/essays, and examine a piece of King's writing in detail, and read and answer reading questions about your chosen memoir.
Lesson 46
Nonfiction Lesson 6
Learn about Elie Wiesel, speeches, and examine a speech in detail, and read and answer reading questions about your chosen memoir.
 Week 16
Lesson 47
Week 16 Grammar Bell Ringer
Grammar Unit Test
Lesson 48
Nonfiction Lesson 7
Review of activists covered in this unit and reflection on chosen memoir. 
Lesson 49
Nonfiction Expository Essay
Compete and turn in the expository essay and take a unit test.