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Block
Path B
Path A
Instructional
Unit 2: Analyzing Comparisons and Representations
Purpose
8 Days
(words)
5 Days
Big Idea Workshop:
1 Day
1 Day
1/2 Day
2 Days
Figurative Language —
Instruction
Associations and Associations and Emphasis Direct Lexile* Length 13 Days 10 Days Path C Schedule
Emphasis Frank X Walker Guided Text n/a 268
“Death by Basketball” (poem)
Arisa White Practice Text n/a 286
“It was easier to manage” (poem)
Big Idea Workshop: Similes and Metaphors Direct 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day 1/2 Day
Figurative Language — Instruction
Comparisons
Amanda Gorman Practice Text n/a 541
“In This Place (An American
Lyric)” (poem)
e.e. cummings Guided n/a 148
Flexible resources to customize your instruction “she being Brand” (poem) Practice
Ideas in Literature: John Donne Independent n/a 235 2 Days 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day
Supporting sections give you a suite of resources from which to Thought and Feeling “A Valediction: Forbidding Practice
choose: Mourning” (poem)
Jon Loomis n/a 415
Ideas in Literature. These are optional readings for further “Deer Hit” (poem)
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practice of the unit skills and a great way to expose students Nafissa Thompson-Spires 1250L 4498
“Fatima, the Biloquist: A
to more sophisticated texts. These thematic collections, each Transformation Story” (from The
Heads of the Colored People)
containing at least one work of British literature (presented by Ideas in Literature: Andrew Marvell Independent n/a 300
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chronological literary period beginning in Unit 1), are designed Opportunity and Loss “To His Coy Mistress” (poem) Practice
to help guide students to the next level of literary analysis and Natasha Trethewey n/a 255
interpretation. “Pilgrimage” (poem)
Sofia Romero 590L 2797
• Because students will be required to apply the skills in a unit “Cloud Nine” (short story)
to both poetry and prose, these thematic collections offer Literary Argumentation: Justifying a Thesis through a Composition 2 Days 2 Days 1 Day 0 Day
Writing about Tone
Workshop
Line of Reasoning
works from multiple genres, rather than just the focus genre
of the corresponding AP® Framework unit. Preparing for the Free-Response Question: Formative n/a n/a 2 Days 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day
®
AP Exam Workshop Poetry Assessment
• Eight full-text, longer works are included in these collections. Units 3, 6, and 9 FOCUS: Justifying a Thesis
each present two works allowing for choice and maximum flexibility: through a Line of Reasoning
William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 73”
• William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice | (Unit 3) Joy Harjo
“Perhaps the World Ends Here”
• Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House | (Unit 3)
Multiple-Choice Questions: n/a n/a
• Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street | (Unit 5) Prose Fiction
W. E. B. Du Bois
• Robert L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | (Unit 6) from “The Comet”
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | (Unit 6) Multiple-Choice Questions: n/a n/a
Poetry
• Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis | (Unit 7) Walt Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
• Caryl Churchill, Top Girls | (Unit 9)
Unit Assessment Use either PPC or Unit 2 mini Summative 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day
• Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | (Unit 9) exam in the Test Bank Assessment
*Lexile text complexity measurements are not applicable to poetry and drama.
Composition Workshop. These process-writing workshops reinforce the skills
taught in the Big Idea workshops for each unit. As the reading skills in the Big
Idea workshops build, and students gain practice with writing in the composition
workshops, they are able to write increasingly sophisticated process-based literary
analyses. Planning Pages 116-b
Each unit focuses on a different aspect of literary argumentation and a different
literary element:
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Unit 1 Writing about Theme Establishing a Unifying Idea through a Defensible Thesis Statement
Unit 2 Writing about Tone Justifying a Thesis through a Line of Reasoning
Unit 3 Writing about Character Explaining an Interpretation through Commentary
Unit 4 Writing about Point of View Creating Unity through Commentary
Unit 5 Writing about Motif and Extended Metaphor Creating Coherence through Transitional Elements
Unit 6 Writing about Symbols Writing Commentary with Purposeful Syntax
Unit 7 Writing about Setting Writing Introductions
Unit 8 Writing about Structure and Irony Writing Conclusions
Unit 9 Writing a Source-Based Literary Argument Using and Citing Secondary Sources

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