PVREC Language Team

1. PVREC Language Team Pacing the Pens, Prose, and Poetry of High School English Classes

2. PVREC Language Team Vision: The PVREC8 districts will have a vertically aligned curricular matrix with incorporating a resource bank supporting common grade level exit skills.

3. PVREC Language Team Goal: By the end of the 2009-2010 school year the PVREC8 Language Arts teams will have a vertical alignment curriculum plan recommended to the district superintendents.

4. PVREC Language Team Mission: We will: R – research A – align S – support P - provide.

5. Steps in the Process • Alignment of old standards to new standards • (Language Arts went from ___standards to ___standards) • Grade Level Novel List created • Grade Level Umbrella created • Grade Level Pacing Guides (9 wks)

6. 12th Grade Umbrella 1st Nine Weeks 2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks • Short story • Poetry • Novel Unit • Nonfiction • Historical • documents • Definition • Compare and • contrast • Cause and • effect • Analysis • Research • Group • presentations • Visual literacy • Primary sources • Essays • Op-eds • Real-world texts • Problem and solution • Rhetoric • Presentations • Power Points • Debate • Informational texts • Nonfiction books • Paraphrasing • Summarizing • Technical texts • Job-related texts • Interviews • Drama • Nonfiction • Skits • Technical texts • Interior Monologues • Soliloquies • Skits • Visual Media

7. 11th Grade Umbrella 1st Nine Weeks 2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks • Paraphrasing • Summarizing • Novel Study • Short Story • Research • Writing types • Critical • Response • Persuasive • Group • presentation • Nonfiction • Rhetoric and • Analysis • Poetry • Opposing • argument • Rhetoric and • analysis • Debate • Poetry • Presentation • Informational • Text • Biography • Fact and • opinion • Technical Texts • Research • Presentation • Opinion and • analysis • Narrative • Drama • Monologue • Soliloquy • Drama skits

8. 10th Grade Umbrella 1st Nine Weeks 2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks • Anthology • Nonfiction • Short Story • Sentence • Structure & • Types • Punctuation • Paragraph • Development • Types of • Writing • Format • Writing Process • Research • Debate • Persuasive Speech • Poetry (STAR) • Literary Terms • Literary Types • Novel Unit • Creative writing • Compare & • Contrast • Analysis • Interpretive • Essays • Tone • Listening skills • Presentations • Speech • Personal • Autobiography • Biography • Narrative • Informative • Graphs and • decoding • ACE • Persuasive • Current Events • Newspaper • Socratic • Seminar • Novel Unit • Drama • Narrative • Monologue • Soliloquy • Paraphrase

9. 9th Grade Umbrella 1st Nine Weeks 2nd Nine Weeks 3rd Nine Weeks 4th Nine Weeks • Propaganda • Foundational • literature • Short story • Novel unit • Imaginative • texts • Literary analysis • Narrative • Research • Visual media • Nonfiction • Poetry • Argument • Paraphrase • Summarize • Response to • literature • Persuasive • Nonfiction • articles • On-line • journals • Cause and • effect • Compare and • contrast • Debate • Cooperative • groups • Drama • Short story • Poetry • Response to • literature • Literary analysis • Creative writing • Projects • Soliloquy • Monologue

10. Next Steps in the Process • Unit Plans – HSTW (copy provided) • End of Course - Exit Skills List • ON-Line Courses for necessary repeats

11. Language Arts Consortium Team • Chanda Crandall** • Darla Autry • Jason Everitt • Judy Kerby • Kesha Miles • Tammie Hardt ** Language Arts team leader.