English I Overview - First Semester 2014-2015

This is an Overview of the TEKS being taught during each unit for the year. Teachers should use this as a reference point and refer to instructional timelines
in the ARRC for specific information concerning: TEKS addressed, essential questions, pacing considerations, vocabulary, and work products.

Unit Number, Pacing,

and Title

Dates
Instructional Days,
Reteach, and Special
Notes
Curriculum-Based
Assessment (CBA)
Title/Genre Focus
(focus genres bolded)
Genres Included*
(for synthesis across
genres)

Unit 1
6 Weeks
Readers/Writers Workshop:
Introduction to Genre Study
August 26 - October 3
st
1 Six Weeks

Unit 2B
1 Week
Poetry Analysis

Unit 3
5 Weeks
Drama & Classical Literature

October 6 - November 7
nd
2 Six Weeks

14 instructional blocks, which

includes 1 block to reteach
and/or extend instruction and 3
blocks to establish classroom
routines/procedures

12 instructional blocks, which includes 2 blocks to

reteach and/or extend instruction

Literary/Fiction

Literary/Nonfiction and
Informational/Expository

Poetry

Literary/Fiction,
Literary/Nonfiction,
Informational/Expository, and
Poetry *

Literary Nonfiction,
Informational/Expository,
Literary/Fiction and Poetry*

Poetry*

Literature may include selections from

Glencoe Literature Texas Treasures, Units
1, 3, and 6, but teachers may include
selections from other units. See resources
in the instructional timelines for
suggestions regarding Glencoe Literature
Texas Treasures and Prentice-Hall Writing
Coach, and other selections.

Literature may include selections

from Glencoe Literature Texas
Treasures, Units 1, 2, 3, and 6. See
resources in the instructional
timelines for suggestions regarding
Glencoe Literature Texas Treasures
and Prentice-Hall Writing Coach,
and other selections.

* Poetry should be embedded

throughout the year.

Resources

Unit 2A
4 Weeks
Analysis of Authors Craft
Across Genres:
Literary/Nonfiction and
Informational/Expository

November 10- December 18

rd
3 Six Weeks
12 instructional blocks, which includes
2 blocks to reteach and/or extend
instruction
CBA: TBA

* Poetry should be embedded throughout the year.

The unit may include
selections from Glencoe
Literature Texas Treasures,
Unit 3, in addition to other
text selections. See
resources in the instructional
timelines for suggestions
regarding Glencoe Literature
Texas Treasures and
Prentice-Hall Writing Coach,
and other selections.

Drama
Mythic, Classical and Traditional,
Literature (Literary)
Drama
Mythic, Classical and Traditional,
Literature
th
st
20 /21 century literature
(literary)
Informational/Expository
Media
Poetry*

The unit may include selections from Glencoe

Literature Texas Treasures, Units 4 and 5, in
addition to other text selections. See resources
in the instructional timelines for suggestions
regarding Glencoe Literature Texas Treasures
and Prentice-Hall Writing Coach, and other
selections.

English I Overview - First Semester 2014-2015

This is an Overview of the TEKS being taught during each unit for the year. Teachers should use this as a reference point and refer to instructional timelines
in the ARRC for specific information concerning: TEKS addressed, essential questions, pacing considerations, vocabulary, and work products.

Unit Number, Pacing,

and Title

TEKS-based
Performance Tasks**
(Non-negotiables)

Unit 1
6 Weeks
Readers/Writers Workshop:
Introduction to Genre Study

Engaging Short Story - full

process (TEKS 14A)
Short Answers (SAs)
(TEKS 15i-Cii)**
** This unit should emphasize the
literary short answer - single
selection and connecting
selections. Interpretative literary
short answers (SAs) extend
beyond summary and literal
analysis and are a paragraph/10
line response.

** Short answers address

reading comprehension of a
text, but are paired with TEKS
15Ci-ii in the RRISD timelines
to emphasize the importance
of providing text evidence
which effectively supports the
readers
conclusion/inference(s) using
embedded quotations in the
response.

Unit 2A
4 Weeks
Analysis of Authors Craft
Across Genres:
Literary/Nonfiction and
Informational/Expository

Unit 2B
1 Week
Poetry Analysis

Expository Essay - scaffold

according to students
needs (e.g. effective
introductory and concluding
paragraphs, variety of
sentence structures,
rhetorical devices and
transitions, a controlling
idea/thesis, organizing
structure, and relevant
information)
(TEKS 15ai-v)

Short Answers (SAs)

(TEKS 15i-Cii)**

Short Answers (SAs) (TEKS 15Ci-ii)**

** This unit should
emphasize the expository
short answer - single
selection and connecting
selections. Interpretative
literary short answers (SAs)
extend beyond summary
and literal analysis and are a
paragraph/10 line response
26 line STAAR Expository
Essay - School-based literacy
practice/timed writing (TEKS
15Ai-v) Optional

** This unit should

emphasize the literary
short answer - single
selection and
connecting selections.
Interpretative literary
short answers (SAs)
extend beyond
summary and literal
analysis and are a
paragraph/10 line
response.
Note: This unit should
emphasize making
inferences and drawing
conclusions about the
structure, tone, and
elements of poetry
providing evidence
from the text to
support their
understanding.
Suggested Analysis
Strategies include
TPCASTT and
SOAPStone.

Unit 3
5 Weeks
Drama & Classical Literature

Original Poem - full process (TEKS

14B) OR
Script - full process (TEKS 14C) Choose 1 product to complete in this
unit
Interpretative Literary Response
extends beyond summary and literal
analysis longer than a short
answer/one page (TEKS 15Ci-iii)
Multimedia Presentation - Unit 3 OR
6 (TEKS 15D)
Note: The multimedia presentation
must be completed with students in
Units 3 or 6. If the multimedia
presentation was completed in Unit 3,
it may be omitted in Unit 6.

English I Overview - First Semester 2014-2015

This is an Overview of the TEKS being taught during each unit for the year. Teachers should use this as a reference point and refer to instructional timelines
in the ARRC for specific information concerning: TEKS addressed, essential questions, pacing considerations, vocabulary, and work products.

Unit Number, Pacing,

and Title

Reading Focus TEKS

***

Unit 1
6 Weeks
Readers/Writers Workshop:
Introduction to Genre Study

- analyze how the genre of

texts with similar themes
shapes meaning (TEKS 2A)

- analyze plot development and

compare it to linear (TEKS 5A)
- analyze how authors develop
complex characters using literary
devices (TEKS 5B)
- analyze the way in which a work
of fiction is shaped by the
narrators point of view (TEKS 5C)
- make subtle inferences and draw
complex conclusions about the
ideas in the text and their
organizational patterns (TEKS 9C)

***Please refer to the

RRISD Instructional
timelines for elaboration of
specific SEs. The TEKS have
been truncated on the
overview.
In addition, TEKS Figure
19B should be taught as a
Reading Focus TEKS in each
unit.

Unit 2A
4 Weeks
Analysis of Authors Craft
Across Genres:
Literary/Nonfiction and
Informational/Expository

- analyze how literary essays

interweave personal
examples and ideas with
factual information to
explain, present a
perspective, or describe a
situation or event (TEKS 6)
- explain the controlling idea
and specific purpose of an
expository text and
distinguish the most
important from the less
important details that
support the author's purpose
(TEKS 8A)

Unit 2B
1 Week
Poetry Analysis

- analyze the effects of

diction and imagery
(e.g., controlling images,
figurative language,
understatement,
overstatement, irony,
paradox) in poetry
(TEKS 3)

Unit 3
5 Weeks
Drama & Classical Literature

-analyze the influence of mythical,

classical and traditional literature on
20th and 21st century literature
(TEKS 2B)
- relate the figurative language of a
literary work to its historical and cultural
setting (TEKS 2C)
- make inferences and draw conclusions
about the structure and elements of
drama (TEKS 4)
- explain the role of irony, sarcasm, and
paradox in literary works (TEKS 7)

- synthesize and make logical

connections between ideas
and details in several texts
and support those findings
with textual evidence
(TEKS 9D)
TEKS Figure 19B should be taught as a Reading Focus TEKS in each unit:

Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to
understand an authors message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they
become self-directed, critical readers. The student is expected to: (B) make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support
understanding.

English I Overview - First Semester 2014-2015

This is an Overview of the TEKS being taught during each unit for the year. Teachers should use this as a reference point and refer to instructional timelines
in the ARRC for specific information concerning: TEKS addressed, essential questions, pacing considerations, vocabulary, and work products.
Unit Number, Pacing, and
Unit 1
Unit 2A
Unit 2B
Unit 3
Title
6 Weeks
4 Weeks
1 Week
5 Weeks
Readers/Writers Workshop:
Analysis of Authors Craft
Poetry Analysis
Drama & Classical Literature
Introduction to Genre Study
Across Genres:
Literary/Nonfiction and
Informational/Expository

Oral and Written

Conventions
Focus****

INTRODUCE:
- use and understand reciprocal
pronouns (e.g., each other, one
another) (TEKS 17Aiii)
- use a variety of correctly
structured sentences (e.g.,
compound, complex, compoundcomplex) (TEKS 17C)
REVIEW AS NEEDED:
- use conventions of capitalization
(TEKS 18A)
- use correct punctuation marks
(TEKS 18B); review other grade
levels for assisting students with
mastery of ELAR TEKS
- spell correctly (TEKS 19)

***Please refer to the

RRISD Instructional
timelines for elaboration
of specific SEs. The TEKS
have been truncated on
the overview.
Monday, June 16, 2014

INTRODUCE:
- use and understand restrictive and nonrestrictive
relative clauses (TEKS 17Aii)
- use a variety of correctly structured sentences (e.g.,
compound, complex, compound-complex) (TEKS 17C)
- use comma placement in nonrestrictive phrases,
clauses, and contrasting expressions (TEKS 18Bii)

INTRODUCE:
-identify and - use and understand
active and passive tenses and verbals
(gerunds, infinitives, participles)
(TEKS 17Ai)
- use quotation marks to indicate
sarcasm or irony (TEKS 18Bi)

REVIEW AS NEEDED:
- use and understand reciprocal pronouns (e.g., each
other, one another) (TEKS 17Aiii)
- use a variety of correctly structured sentences (e.g.,
compound, complex, compound-complex) (TEKS 17C)
- use conventions of capitalization (TEKS 18A)
- use correct punctuation marks (TEKS 18B); review other
grade levels for assisting students with mastery of ELAR
TEKS
- spell correctly (TEKS 19)

REVIEW AS NEEDED:
- use and understand restrictive and
nonrestrictive relative clauses
(TEKS 17Aii)
- use and understand reciprocal
pronouns (e.g., each other, one another)
(TEKS 17Aiii)
- use a variety of correctly structured
sentences (e.g., compound, complex,
compound-complex) (TEKS 17C)
- use conventions of capitalization
(TEKS 18A)
- use correct punctuation marks (18B);
review other grade levels for assisting
students with mastery of ELAR TEKS
- use comma placement in
nonrestrictive phrases, clauses, and
contrasting expressions (TEKS18Bii)
- spell correctly (TEKS 19)

Reinforce previously taught oral and written conventions

TEKS as needed. Differentiate revising and editing minilessons according to students needs.

Reinforce previously taught oral and

written conventions TEKS as needed.
Differentiate revising and editing minilessons according to students needs.