ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Trimester 2 - CURRICULUM MAP

Grade: 9
Teacher’s Name: Ms Dahlia Azzam
Course: My Perspectives

UNIT TITLE:

Anchor Texts: 1-The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami

2-The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt by Nancy Sherman

Poetry: 1- I am Offering This Poem

ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS

1. Students will be able to cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support
analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. Students will be able to determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in
detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is
shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. Students will be able to analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with
multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with
other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

4. Students will be able to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are
used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the
cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the
language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

5. Students will be able to analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to

structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time
(e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

6. Students will be able to analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience

reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide
reading of world literature.

LITERACY STANDARDS:
1— Students will be able to analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in
two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each
treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with
the Fall of Icarus).

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2— Students will be able to analyze how an author draws on and transforms source
material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from
Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

3—Students will be able by the end of grade 9, to read and comprehend literature,
including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9–10 text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S):
A-Anchor Texts:
1- What a reader can infer from the author’s recollections in the text?
2- Why the author has emphasized the importance of the observations in the
text?
3- What is a memoir?
4- What is the author’s point of view? Infer from the details in the text the
author’s point of view.
5- Detect unknown academic words in the text.
6- Identify the concept vocabulary in the text.
7- How do images enhance the reader’s understanding of the text?
8- Ask students to mark & highlight details in the paragraphs that provide
descriptive clues about the author’s purpose

CONTENT:
A- Anchor Texts:

1-The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami - The Seventh Man" is a reflection on the
past by the story's narrator when he was only ten years old. He experienced a terrible
tsunami event that took the life of his good friend, K. The narrator had the opportunity to
save his friend but he failed to do so which had a traumatic effect on his life.

2-The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt by Nancy Sherman

-Survivor guilt piles on the unconscious thought that luck is part of a zero-sum
game. To have good luck is to deprive another of it. The anguish of guilt, its sheer
pain, is a way of sharing some of the ill fate. It is a form of empathic distress.

B- Poetry:

1- I am Offering This Poem-In I Am Offering This Poem, by Jimmy

Santiago Baca, the poet is giving the idea that love is providing you with
all that you need, for example guidance and comfort. When in love,
humans tend to feel safe and as if they belong, knowing there is someone
that's always there that cares for them.
SKILLS / UNDERSTANDINGS:

Students have acquired the following skills:

1— Mind Map Reading & Close Reading Questions

2— Character Sketch Analysis
3— Prediction of the new, upcoming events with illustrations, proof & examples.
4— Literary Criticism.
5- Poetry -language , Diction & figures of speech

VOCABULARY:

List 1: Concept & Academic Vocabulary of Anchor text 1

List 2 : Concept & Academic Vocabulary of Anchor text 2

List 3 : Concept & Academic Vocabulary of the Poem

ASSESSMENT / EVIDENCE
1-Work sheets on Coligo ’Materials’
2-Weekly quizzes /pop quizzes.
3-Handouts.
4-Assignments on Coligo
5- Class Projects.

ACTIVITIES / LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

1. Story Mapping.
2. Role Acting
3. Venn diagrams
4. Figures of Speech chart

RESOURCES:
1- My Perspectives Book & Savaas Platform
2- Selection Texts through Google.

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
1.Powerpoint Presentations on Coligo & Kahoot Educational Online Games.
2. Educational Researches.
3-Quizlet.com & Savaas Realize.com
4-Podcasts