Daily Calendar

11th Grade Calendar Link (Click on link), CLASS OF 2023

Scope and Sequence

11th Grade Scope and Sequence Link for HL DP Language and Literature, Class of 2023

Syllabus

11th Grade Syllabus 2021-2022 for HL DP Language and Literature, Class of 2023

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🚹

Testing

If a student is expected to turn in a test or a project for which they had work time that class and they turn in nothing, then the teacher can assign a required tutorial or SOS for the student to complete and turn in the work (the teacher will email the parent to notify them). If the student does not attend, then the work will not be accepted.