Literature Scope and Sequence: 3rd nine weeks
Unit: Poetry
Part 1. Narrative Poetry: Weeks 1-3
1. "The Highwayman," Alfred Noyes
Objectives: 1. to understand the features of narrative poetry
2. to follow a sequence of events
3. to summarize a narrative poem
2. " The Cremation of Sam McGee," Robert Service
Objectives: 1. To understand the part that rhythm plays in poetry
2. to evaluate the effects of rhythm in poetry
3. " Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out," Shel Silverstein
Objectives: 1. To understand the part that rhyme plays in poetry
2. to evaluate the effect of rhyme
3. to write a rhymed poem
4. "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe
Objectives: 1. To understand the part that repetition plays in poetry
2. to evaluate the effects of repetition in poetry
3. to write a narrative poem
5. "Oranges," Gary Soto
Objectives: 1. To understand the speaker in narrative poetry
2. to make inferences about a speaker
Part 2: Figurative Language and Imagery Week 4
1. "The Magnificent Bull," Dinka Traditional "Fog," Carl Sandburg "Loo-Wit," Wendy Rose
Objectives: 1. To understand simile
2. to write with simile
3. to understand metaphor
4. to evaluate the effect of a metaphor
5. to understand extended metaphor
2. "The Bat," Theodore Roethke "The Pasture," Robert Frost "sugarfields," Barbara Mahone
Objectives: 1. To understand images
2. to write a poem about an animal
3. to write about a place
3. "Seal," William Jay Smith
Objectives: 1. To understand concrete poetry
2. to write a concrete poem
4. Three Haiku, translated from Japanese by Harry Behn
Three Haiku, by Basho, translated by Daniel C. Buchanan
Objectives: 1. To understand haiku
2. to write a haiku
Part 3: Lyric Poetry Week 5
1. "Washed in Silver," James Stephens "Feelings About Words," Mary O'Niell "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes," Vachel Lindsay
Objectives: 1. To understand the features of lyric poetry
2. to understand connotation
3. to appreciate vivid verbs
4. to write about a lyric poem
2. "The Courage That My Mother Had," Edna St. Vincent Millay "My Mother Pieced Quilts," Teresa Palomo Acosta
Objectives: 1. To understand the features of figurative and literal language
2. to paraphrase a poem
3. to write a lyric poem
Part 4: The Changing Seasons
1. "in Just-," E. E. Cummings "Winter," Nikki Giovanni "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost
Objectives: 1. To understand sensory language
2. to write a poem describing seasonal activities
3. to write an interpretation of a poem
2. "Season at the Shore," Phyllis McGinley
"When the Frost Is on the Punkin," James Whitcomb Riley
Objectives: 1. To understand the use of alliteration in a poem
2. to write a poem in which alliteration is used
3. to understand the use of onomatopoeia in a poem
Part 5: People in Their Variety Week 6
1. "Mother to Son," Langston Hughes "A Song of Greatness," Chippewa Indian Traditional, Mary Austin
" I'm Nobody," Emily Dickinson "Life," Naomi Long Madgett
"Martin Luther King," Raymond Richard Patterson
Objectives: 1. To understand tone in poetry
2. to compare and contrast the tones of different poems
3. to paraphrase the poem
4. to identify the tone of a poem
2. "Father William," Lewis Carroll
Objectives: 1. To understand the features of humorous poetry
2. to write a humorous poem
3. "Two Limericks," Oliver Herford
Objectives: 1. To understand the form of a limerick
2. to write a limerick
4. "Song of Orpheus," from King Henry VIII, William Shakespeare
Objective: 1. To understand the use of myth in poetry
Unit: Myths and Folk Tales Around the World
Part 1: Animal Fables Week 7
1. "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" and "The Fox and the Crow," Aesop
Objectives: 1. To understand fables
2. to write a fable
2. "The Mice That Set Elephants Free," from The Panchatantra, translated by Arthur W. Ryder
Objectives: 1. To understand cultural background
2. to understand poetry in fables
3. "How the Animals Kept the Lions Away," Inea Bushnaq
Objectives: 1. To understand humor in fables
2. to appreciate pattern in fables
3. to compare and contrast characters
4. "The Wicked Weasel," Alan Feinstein
Objectives: 1. To understand motivation in fables
2. to understand clues in fables
Part 2: Tricksters, Rascals, and Fools Week 8
1. "All Stories Are Anansi's," Harold Courlander
Objectives: 1. To understand the trickster in folklore
2. to make inferences about characters in folklore
3. to write a folk tale with animal characters
2. "The Pointing Finger," Carol Kendall and Yaowen Li
Objectives: 1. To understand a folk tale
2. to summarize a folk tale
Part 3: Transformations and Origins
1. "Demeter and Persephone," Anne Terry
Objectives: 1. To understand and appreciate a myth
2. to contrast the function of myth and science
Week 9 : review for the benchmark
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