Full Year High School English Curriculum: Secondary ELA 9-12 Common Core Aligned

If you are teaching a new high school English course this year, or you're looking to upgrade your current high school English class curriculum, this full year ELA curriculum is for YOU! This Common Core Standards aligned English Language Arts curriculum will help you create meaningful learning experiences for your secondary English students AND protect your time outside of contract hours.

This English curriculum is perfect for you if are looking for...

• creative, effective activities for you and your students with the flexibility to have the final say in what texts you teach
• curriculum that targets the standards AND teaches your students important critical reading and perspective-taking skills
• AP English Literature and Composition prep so your students are ready for the AP exam

Whether you're looking for World Literature, American Literature, or British Literature curriculum (or a combination of), it doesn't matter because this customizable high school English curriculum is for you!

Whether you need:

• 9th grade English Curriculum
• 10th grade English Curriculum
• 11th grade English Curriculum
• 12th grade English Curriculum

Look no further! This is it! Everything you need to teach short stories, poetry, novels and plays, informational text, argument, narratives, research, writing, and speaking & listening is in this secondary English Curriculum!

What this high school English curriculum is:

• a complete plan for the entire school year with a pacing guide, suggestions, options, and unit plans
• an adaptable model that you can "plug and play" any of the works you love or are required for your school
• meaningful, engaging assessments created as acceptable evidence for the CCSS and learning experiences and instruction that meets those standards
• digital and print options to meet your instructional needs
• creative activities your students will love

What this high school English curriculum isn’t:

This Full Year English Curriculum is NOT just a big bundle of resources. Instead, this high school English curriculum was carefully written with a backward design approach using mastery of the CCSS Reading: Literature, Reading: Informational Text, Writing, and Speaking & Listening as the desired result.

What's inside the full year high school English curriculum?

1. Over 30 complete resources/units with over 500 pages of engaging activities, workbooks, lessons, and ideas
2. 9 instructional categories: Introduction to ELA, short stories, poetry, novels and plays, informational text, multi-genre, seasonal, vocabulary, and classroom management
3. BONUS Curriculum-Based Classroom Décor
4. Teacher directions, pacing guides, answer keys, and more!

Here is a breakdown of the instructional categories included in this English Curriculum:

Instructional Category 1: Introduction to ELA

This collection of activities is designed to prepare students for the curriculum by introducing them to key skills and concepts that drive the course.

1. First Day in ELA Stations are a great way to introduce students to your class!
2. Next, the email etiquette lesson provides a great intro activity to set the stage for professional communication via email.
3. Use my close reading and annotation mini-unit to teach students to apply their natural reading strategies for academic purposes. No more mindless highlighting, circling, and underlining!

Instructional Category 2: Short Stories

1. The Elements of Fiction Workbook is a great starting point for your short stories unit. Breaking down the skills by character, setting, structure, narration, and figurative language, students will master the skills necessary for analyzing literature.
2. After you’ve covered the elements of short fiction, you can use the Narrative Workbook to teach students the elements of narrative writing.
3. If you’d like a shorter summative assessment option or you’d like students to do both, students can write their own personal narrative essay with the Personal Narrative Essay Workbook.

Instructional Category 3: Poetry

1. Hook your students for your poetry unit with the song lyric analysis activity.
2. Then, move into analysis with the Analyzing Poetry Mini-Unit. This Poetry Analysis Unit teaches students to analyze poetry by scaffolding three poetry analysis questions.
3. Now that students have learned poetic analysis skills, it’s time for them to learn poetic form through reading and writing with the Poetry Portfolio.
4. The Poetry Café Stations activity is a great option for a culminating activity. Students will choose a poem and work through six analysis tasks to analyze the work from a variety of perspectives.

Instructional Category 4: Novels and Plays

So, what if your school makes you teach Othello, or you just love teaching Pride and Prejudice? It's best practice for English teachers to choose their novel selections based on their students interests (and of course, their own preferences, school stipulations, required reading, etc.) Don’t worry! I have you covered! I have four different ways to tackle ANY novel (or play).

All four resources are different and therefore, tackle different standards and provide a bit of novelty.

You'll get

1. literature circles
2. a novel study unit
3. a literary bullet journal
4. literary bookmarks as an alternative to study guides

Instructional Category 5: Informational Text

1. With the Rhetorical Analysis Unit, teach the rhetorical triangle, the rhetorical situation, and persuasive appeals with success!
2. Then teach your students to evaluate and create strong arguments with the Analyzing Arguments Unit! In this unit, students will evaluate and create claims, evidence, counterarguments, and fallacies.
3. Next, empower students to write strong argumentative and persuasive essays with my Argument Essay Workbook.
4. Just like the fiction version, I've included the Literary Bookmarks for informational texts.
5. Use the Research Paper Workbook to engage your students in the research writing process and meet the Common Core Standards for explanatory - informative writing!

Instructional Category 6: Multi-Genre

This adaptable unit uses a multi-genre approach to teach students analysis from a variety of lenses.

Highlights:

• This is perfect for a multi-genre, thematic unit.
• You also could use this unit as a culminating final for the year.
• It includes the Literary Luminary Project-Based Assessment as a great way to evaluate students’ understanding of a text (of choice or from the unit) and encourage higher-order thinking. It would be perfect for a year-end final!
• In this unit, I will provide teaching ideas and text pairings for each literary theory if you’re looking for ideas.

Instructional Category 7: Seasonal Resources

Fall, winter, spring, and summer resources are included as a way to add new perspectives and opportunities for enrichment and reinforcement.

Instructional Category 8: Vocabulary

Research indicates effective vocabulary instruction should teach students to understand how words are used in nuanced contexts (McKeown, 2019).

Highlights:

• This program does just that! It has everything you need to engage students in a vocabulary study with multiple contexts.
• Students will generate their own word lists based on your chosen texts, and then engage with those in new contexts.
• It can be used over and over again throughout the year with any work you are teaching.

Classroom Management

1. Use my best-selling Class Slides with Timers to pace any lesson or activity in this curriculum.
2. Pair the customizable bell ringer slide to craft your own bell ringers with my yearly Bell Ringer Journal template to keep students organized.
3. As a bonus, you'll also get my visual syllabus templates!

BONUS: Curriculum-Based Classroom Décor

To finish out the curriculum, you can reference and reinforce everything you’re teaching with curriculum-based classroom décor.

This includes

1. Try a New Lens bulletin board
2. Reading Is Your Window to the World interactive bulletin board
3. my Literary Lenses Posters

What your students will love:

• the student-centered approach to learning
• the variety of ways to learn the content and show what they know
• the opportunity for collaboration

What you'll love:

• the hours of time you'll save planning and prepping so you can enjoy your time outside of the classroom
• your students reactions when they are engaged and excited about studying literature
• the customizable options to get exactly what you need

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