11th Calendar
11th GRADE, CLASS OF 2022 CALENDAR
Daily Calendar
11th Grade Calendar Link (Click on link), CLASS OF 2022
Scope and Sequence
11th Grade Scope and Sequence Link for HL DP Language and Literature, Class fo 2022
11th Grade Units
First Semester
Unit 1: Seven Central Concepts/Media Creative option (introduction to Areas of Exploration & Concepts)
Aug-Sept
Unit 2: Media Literacy: Rhetorical Analysis (non-literary texts, editorials)
Paper One(presentation)
Sept-Oct
Unit 3: Great Gatsby (prose fiction, poetry, advertising)
(Interdisciplinary with History) with 20s advertising and poetry with Langston Hughes 🚹Poetry Analysis (free choice)
Oct-Nov
Unit 4: PLA Literary Circle (prose fiction and non-literary texts)
(see list of texts below) PLA ✔️(analyzing author’s craft, paper two prompts)
Nov-Dec
Second Semester
Unit 5: Short Stories (prose fiction)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, short stories from The Thing Around Your Neck (Nigerian author)
Jan
Unit 6: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
non-literary text, focus on argument, defend, challenge, or qualifying arguments
Feb-March
Unit 7: Pygmalion
drama
March - April
Unit 8: Developing Your Own Line of Inquiry, HL Essay (multigenre)
HL Essay (presentation)
May
PLA Literary Circle, 11th Grade (fall)
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez PLA, 🚺
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez PLA, 🚺
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou PLA, 🚺
Purple Hibiscus by by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, PLA, 🚺
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou PLA, 🚺
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen PLA, 🚺
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte PLA, 🚺
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote,PLA🚹
Things They Carried by Truman Capote,PLA🚹
Malgudi Days by RK Narayan, collection of short stories, ,PLA🚹
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,PLA🚹