視覺文學：透過中學英語和語言藝術繪製你的道路

Welcome to Visual Lit: Middle School ELA! This Language Arts course covers grammar, literary 
analysis, and discussion skills as outlined by Common Core, NCTE, and International Reading 
Association standards. Each Standard listed below is covered in a stand-alone lesson; lessons do not build off 
each other week after week. 

This course uses sketchnoting to draw/ analyze/ access texts. Sketchnoting is a form of note-taking, 
hence the “noting” part of it, but as you might guess it involves bringing more visuals into the process 
compared to typical note-taking, hence the “sketch” part. 

This class begins with a different warm-up activity each time that can include anything from VISUAL GRAMMAR 
 and sentence diagramming to thought- provoking discussion questions. There is no homework or pre-reading required. Stories and poems are accessed during class with guided reading and socratic discussion. 

Each class we will dive deeply into texts and examine literary elements such as tone, plot structure, 
symbolism, and character development. We draw our ideas during our examinations so students will 
have artifacts to remember each text by. 

The goal for each class is to help students gain confidence in their analysis and discussion abilities in a 
supportive group setting. All texts are available in the public domain online and are listed below:

CURRICULUM: JOIN ANY TIME!! (This class has no end date) 


******TEXTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO STUDENT INTEREST/ SUGGESTIONS*********


WEEK OF NOVEMBER 4: Standards: RL4; RL6; RL7; RL9; NCTE 9; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6; Text: “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury: https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/4327/Soft%20Rains%20Bradbury%20Text.pdf

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 11: Standards: RL1; RL2; RL6; RL3; RL8; NCTE 9; CC 1; CC 2; Text: “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker: https://harpers.org/archive/1973/04/everyday-use/

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 18: Standards: RL3; RL5; RL7; RL4; NCTE 4; CC 1; CC 4; CC 7; CC 3; NCTE 6, 1 & 7 Texts: (Poetry focus): “Growing Down,” “The Clockman” ~Shel Silverstein & "Sonnet 116" Shakespeare, “The Road Not Taken” ~Robert Frost https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/growing-down ; https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/the-clock-man ; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace-with-fortune-and-mens-eyes; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 25: THERE WILL BE NO CLASSES FROM NOVEMBER 27TH TO NOVEMBER 30TH FOR THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS 
For class on November 26: Standards: ELA RL..1; ELA RL.2; ELA RL.6; RL..10; ELA RL5; ELA L.1; ELA L.0.2; Common Core Writing Standard 1, W.9-10.6“The Lady of the Tiger?” by Frank R Stockton https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/396/pg396-images.html 


WEEK OF DECEMBER 2: Standards: RL3; RL4; RL6; RL7; RL8; CC 1; CC 2; Text: “The Interlopers” by Saki https://www.edco.ie/_fileupload/The%20Interlopers%20-%20A%20short%20story%20by%20Saki.pdf

WEEK OF DECEMBER 9: Standards: RL1; RL2; RL3; RL5; RL7; CC10; NCTE 1; NCTE 2; Text: “AUDIO ONLY The Snowman - 1986 Audiobook - Read by John Baddeley (Tempo 9516) AUDIOBOOK: https://youtu.be/pKO826q34r0    

WEEK OF DECEMBER 16: Standards: RL3; RL5; RL8; RL4; NCTE 3; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6; Text: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury 
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

WEEK OF DECEMBER 23: THERE WILL BE NO CLASSES FROM DECEMBER 23RD TO DECEMBER 29 DUE TO WINTER HOLIDAY

WEEK OF DECEMBER 30: Standards: RL1; RL2; RL6; RL8; NCTE 9; NCTE 4; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6; Text: “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst http://jjett.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/97072218/The_Scarlet_Ibis.pdf

WEEK OF JANUARY 6: Standards: RL1, RL2, RL6, RL8; NCTE 9, NCTE 4; CC 4, CC 5 Text:  “Icarus and Daedalus” - Josephine Preston Peabody;   PDF FOUND HERE: https://www.ontarioteacher.org/reading7/index_htm_files/Icarus%20and%20Daedalus%20Myth.pdf & Musée des Beaux Arts BY W H Auden found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159364/musee-des-beaux-arts-63a1efde036cd 

WEEK OF JANUARY 14: Standards: RL3; RL5; RL6; RL7; RL8; CC 1; CC 2; Text: “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Through-the-Tunnel-Lessing-Doris.pdf

WEEK OF JANUARY 20: Standards: RL2; RL4; RL7; RL8; NCTE 1 & 7; NCTE 6; CC 1; CC 4; CC 7; Text: “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/ASoundofThunder.pdf

WEEK OF JANUARY 27: Standards: RL3; RL5; RL6; RL7; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6; NCTE 3; Text: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/jackson_lottery.pdf

******TEXTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO STUDENT INTEREST/ SUGGESTIONS*********

WEEK OF FEB 3:  Standards: RL4; RL6; RL7: NCTE 9; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6; Text: “The Friday Everything Changed” - Anne Hart https://shortfictioncollingwood.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/the-friday-everything-changed.pdf

WEEK OF FEB 10:  Standards RL1; RL2; RL3;  RL5; RL7 CC 1; CC 4; CC 7; NCTE 1 & 7  “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez https://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/AVeryOldManwithEnormousWingsbyMarquez.pdf 

WEEK OF FEB 17:  Standards: RL2; RL4; RL5; RL8: CC10 ; NCTE 1; NCTE 2: Text: “Secret Life of Walter Mitty” James Thurber : https://www.sphstigers.org/ourpages/users/jasher/SSBootCampWebsite/SecretLifeWalterMitty.pdf  

WEEK OF FEB 24:  Standards: RL3; RL4; RL5; RL7: CC 1; CC 2; Text “”All Summer in a Day” Ray Bradbury : https://www.mukilteoschools.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=183&dataid=731&FileName=6-All-Summer-in-a-Day-by-Ray-Bradbury.pdf

WEEK OF MARCH 3:  Standards: RL4; RL6; RL7 NCTE 1 NCTE 2 CC 7 CC 10“Hey You Down There" by Harold Roseblath: https://www.mrbroviak.com/uploads/3/7/4/5/37450073/hey_you_down_there_1.pdf 

WEEK OF MARCH 10:  Standards: : RL1; RL2; RL3: CC 3 ; NCTE 6; “Rikki Tikki Tavi” Rudyard Kipling https://www.vma.is/static/files/enska/Bokmenntir/Short%20Stories/RikkiTikkiTavi_Kipling.pdf 

WEEK OF MARCH 17:  Standards: RL2; RL4; RL5; RL8: NCTE 9; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6; Text:  "The Elevator" by William Sleator
https://cdn5-ss16.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_27050581/File/Staff%20Websites/Harris/Literature%20&%20Non-Fiction/The_Elevator.pdf 

WEEK OF MARCH 24:  Standards: Standards: RL4; RL6; RL7; NCTE 9; CC 4; CC 5; CC 6  “The Circuit” by https://www.wrschool.net/cms/lib/AZ02214740/Centricity/Domain/1614/The%20Circuit%20Text.pdf

WEEK OF MARCH 31:  Standards: : CC 1; CC 3; CC 6; NCTE 1, 7, 3, 10  "The Hitchhiker" by Roald Dahl found here: http://www.rodtaylorsite.com/media/dahl_hitch-hiker.pdf  

WEEK OF APRIL 7 (POETRY MONTH!):  Standards: RL1; RL3; RL5: CC 1; CC 2; Text:  The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker  ( http://christian_fuller.myteachersite.org/teacher/files/documents/the_stolen_party1.pdf ) and poem: ‘Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party’ by William Stafford   (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/monuments-for-a-friendly-girl-at-a-tenth-grade-party/ ) 

WEEK OF APRIL 14 (POETRY MONTH!):  RL 1; RL5; RL6; RL7; RL 8;  : Standards: CC 1; CC 2; NCTE  4; Text: “The Chaser” by Jon Collier & “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare:  https://f01.justanswer.com/VaIxepPC/the_chaser-collier.pdf & https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day 

WEEK OF APRIL 21 (POETRY MONTH!):  PRT 1 Standards: RL 1; RL5; RL6; RL7; RL 8CC 1; CC 4; CC 7; CC 3 ; NCTE 6, 1 & 7  Texts: (Poetry focus): “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W Service ; “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and “O Captain! My Captain” and “A Noiseless Patient Spider both by Walt Whitman 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee ; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45474/o-captain-my-captain ; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/a-noiseless-patient-spider https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45398/casey-at-the-bat 

WEEK OF APRIL 28 (POETRY MONTH!):  Standards: PRT 2 Standards: RL 1; RL5; RL6; RL7; RL 8CC 1; CC 4; CC 7; CC 3 ; NCTE 6, 1 & 7  Texts: (Poetry focus): “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W Service ; “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and “O Captain! My Captain” and “A Noiseless Patient Spider both by Walt Whitman 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee ; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45474/o-captain-my-captain ; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/a-noiseless-patient-spider https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45398/casey-at-the-bat 
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