Common Core Alignment
1: Semester 1
Unit 1: The Pearl
Lesson 1: Steinbeck
Lesson 10: Writing a Parable
Lesson 2: The Scorpion
Lesson 3: The Pearl
Lesson 4: Related Research
Lesson 5: Songs
Lesson 6: For Sale
Lesson 7: The Attack
Lesson 8: Escape
Lesson 9: Parables
Final Project: Think-Tac-Toe
Unit 3: The Hobbit
Lesson 1: Bilbo Baggins
Lesson 10: The Dragon
Lesson 11: Bard
Lesson 12: The Arkenstone
Lesson 13: The Battle
Lesson 2: Trolls
Lesson 3: The Elves
Lesson 4: Gollum
Lesson 5: Wolves, Goblins, and Eagles
Lesson 6: Skin-Changer
Lesson 7: Spiders
Lesson 8: Elvenking
Lesson 9: Men of the Lake
Final Project: Responding to Literature
2: Semester 2
Unit 3: The Prince and the Bard
Lesson 10: Dreams
Lesson 11: Watching the Play
Lesson 12: Tragic Love
Lesson 8: Beginning A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lesson 9: Puck's Pranks
Unit 5: British Poetry
Lesson 1: Rhythm and Meter
Lesson 2: Voice and Rhyme
Lesson 3: Graphic Elements
Lesson 4: Figurative Language
Lesson 5: Allusions
Lesson 6: Tone
Lesson 7: Themes
Final Project: Autobiography of a Poet