UNIT 1 AT A GLANCE

Pacing /
Contents Genre / Lexile Vocabulary / Word Study
# of Days
Unit Introduction Academic Vocabulary (L.9-10.6)
INTRO

1* Nonfiction Narrative
Launch Text: Music for My Mother
770L
Whole-Class Learning Introduction
WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING

5 Concept Vocabulary
A Quilt of a Country Essay
Word Study: Latin Prefix
Anna Quindlen 1310L

COMPARE
dis- (L.9-10.4.b)
The Immigrant Contribution Concept Vocabulary
Essay
from A Nation of Immigrants 4 Word Study: Latin Root
1320L
John F. Kennedy -nat- (L.9-10.4.b)
Concept Vocabulary
American History Short Story
3 Word Study: Cognates
Judith Ortiz Cofer 1000L
(L.9-10.4.c)
Performance Task
2
Writing

Small-Group Learning Introduction

Rules of the Game 3 Concept Vocabulary (L.9-10.4.a)

Novel Excerpt
SMALL-GROUP LEARNING

from The Joy Luck Club Word Study: Connotation and

1000L
Amy Tan Denotation (L.9-10.5.b)
Concept Vocabulary (L.9-10.4.a)
The Writing on the Wall Blog Post
2 Word Study: Latin Root
Camille Dungy 1160L
-mem- (L.9-10.4.b)
With a Little Help From My Friends Concept Vocabulary (L.9-10.4.a)
Memoir
from Funny in Farsai 2 Word Study: The Latin Prefix
920L
Firoozeh Dumas inter- (L.9-10.4.b)
Concept Vocabulary (L.9-10.4)
Morning Talk • Immigrant Picnic Poetry Collection
2 Word Study: Multiple-Meaning Words
Robert Hill Whiteman • Gregory Djanikian NP; NP
(L.9-10.4)
Performance Task
2
Speaking and Listening
Independent Learning Introduction

from When I was Puerto Rican Memoir

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

Esmerelda Santiago 900L

Finding a Voice: A Taiwanese Family Adapts to America Autobiographical Essay Independent Learning provides
Diane Tsai 1180L students with the opportunity to
analyze a selection independently. To
The New Colossus 2 Poetry facilitate students’ independence, no
Emma Lazarus NP skills have been assigned.

Legal Alien Poetry

Pat Mora NP
Grace Abbott and the Fight for Immigrant Rights in
Media: Video
America
NP
BBC

Performance-Based Assessment
END OF UNIT

Writing 2

Unit Reflection
Unit Test 1
* Pacing is suggested for a 40- to 50-minute class period. If you use block scheduling, you may combine days to meet your schedule needs.

2A UNIT 1 • AMERICAN VOICES

 AMERICAN VOICES

Conventions / Author’s Composition / Research /

Analyze Craft and Structure
Style Speaking and Listening

Summary (RI.9-10.2)

Purpose and Rhetoric (RI.9-10.5; Author’s Style: Word Choice

RI.9-10.6) (RI.9-10.4)
Writing to Compare: Essay (W.9-10.2;
W.9-10.9, 9.b; RI.9-10.4; L.9-10.3)
Purpose and Persuasion Conventions: Sentence Types
(RI.9-10.6) (L.9-10.1, 1.b)

Writing to Sources: Alternative Endings

Conventions: Types of Phrases
Narrative Structure (RL.9-10.3) (W.9-10.3.e)
(L.9-10.1.b)
Speaking and Listening: Monologue (SL.9-10.4)

Write a Nonfiction Narrative (W.9-10.3.a–e; W.9-10.10)

Conventions: Participles and

Complex Characters (RL.9-10.3) Speaking and Listening: Act Out a Scene (SL.9-10.4)
Participle Phrases (L.9-10.1.b)

Author’s Style: Alliteration,

Research: Digital Presentation (W.9-10.7;
Informative Text (RL.9-10.2) Assonance, and Consonance
SL.9-10.5)
(RI.9-10.4)

Author’s Style: Humor

Literary Nonfiction (RI.9-10.3) Writing to Sources: Essay (W.9-10.2.b)
(L.9-10.5, 5.a)

Author’s Style: Word Choice Speaking and Listening: Panel Discussion

Poetic Structures (RL.9-10.5)
(L.9-10.3; L.9-10.5, 5.a) (SL.9-10.1, 1.c–d)

Produce a Podcast (SL.9-10.4; SL.9-10.5; SL.9-10.6;

W.9-10.6)

Independent Learning provides students with the opportunity

to analyze a selection independently. To facilitate students’ Share Your Independent Learning (SL.9-10.1)
independence, no skills have been assigned.

Writing to Sources: Nonfiction Narrative (W.9-10.3)

Speaking and Listening: Interpretive Reading (SL.9-10.4)

Reflect on the Unit

UNIT 1 • AT A GLANCE 2B