TE 407 Curricular Map Revised: Emily Mullins

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 1: Under the Reading Various 6 weeks
Immigration Same Moon (La Quizzes/Short readings
and Identity Misma Luna) Literary
(film) Analyses Novels (based
on real
Desert Blood: Writing a story situations)
Juarez Murders in the same
by Alicia style as The Film
Gasper de Alba House on
(excerpts) Mango Street Look at
voyages North,
The House on Discussion of Latino and
Mango Street immigrant Chicano
by Sandra identity Literature
Cisneros
Juarez Get involved
Odyssey to the murders- with the
North by Mario discussion of situation of
Bencastro rape, murder, Juarez-website
and violence (maybe raising
against money?)
women.
Power points to
give historical
perspective

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 2: Teen Into the Wild Keep own diary Get to know 8 weeks
Struggles (book and/or about your life- one another
film) can be
whatever you Talking about
The Outsiders want to say, the future
by S.E. Hinton you just have
(book and/or to write Topics of love,
film) loss,
Write a short friendship,
Choose one: story about a family,
Please Don’t person you heartbreak,
Kill the look up to disabilities,
Freshman: A social
Memoir by Zoe Literary divisions, and
Trope analysis class warfare
Or comparing a
Crazy: A Novel novel to the Reading
by Benjamin film aloud/Discussi
Lebert ons
Or Choosing one
Ophelia book or Closer looks at
Speaks: collection of the text
Adolescent short stories,
 Girls Write read and Comparing
about Their create a films and
Search for Self project to best books
Or exemplify what
Real Boys’ you have read Novels/Stories
Voices and how you written by
feel about it teens for teens

Create a Post Society and

Secret self
Postcard

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 3: Written on Short paper- Film 4-5 weeks
Gender and the Body by why do you
self, Jeannette think the Novel
historically Winterson author kept
and currently the narrator Short fiction
“The Other gender-less
Boleyn Girl”, Documentary
a look at the Take effective
Tudors (film) and useful Learning cultural,
notes from a gender, and social
“The Tudors’ video and the issues in the
True Story” documentary. modern world
(film- versus in the
documentary) Research, and historical England
create an oral
report about Digging deeper into
an assigned the lines, finding
aspect of the the true meaning—
video. self discovery, love
found and lost
Synthesize Gender issues in
historical Tudor England in
information the time of Henry
from a variety VIII
of sources.

Express an
understanding
of the King’s
six wives’
lives and the
culture of the
times.

Express a
historical and
cultural
understanding
of the
 Reformation
and Tudor
England.

Create a story
written from
the point of
view of one of
Henry VIII’s
wives.

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals Weeks

Unit 4: The Of Mice and A look into American novels 6 Weeks
influence of Men by John the way life
the Great Steinbeck was at the Media influence
Depression/Ra time of the
ce Relations FDR Fireside Great The power of speech
and Diversity chats Depression,
the onset of Historical context
Harlem by war economy (Race/Class/Social/Ge
Langston nder)
Hughes Leading into
race relations
and racial
inequality

WWII Pop Art,

Video,
Propaganda
(make own
propaganda
poster)

Record own
Fireside Chat
on topic of
own choosing

Reading
quizzes for Of
Mice and Men

Analyzing a
literary work
covered in
this unit
through
 writing or
look at a time
you had a
moral
dilemma, how
did you
handle it?

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 5: Civil Fences by Write a short Plays 4 weeks
Rights/ Speech August Wilson speech
and Public beginning with Speech-Writing
Speaking/ MLK’s “I Have “I Have a and Speaking
Debate a Dream…” Dream…” and
Speech vs. perform in Drama-
Malcom X’s front of the Broadway
God's class (watch)
Judgment of (Memorization)
White America Understand
(The Chickens Defending the the Civil Rights
Come Home to rights and Movement,
Roost) dignity of your segregation
own as well as
Loraine other’s (why Memorization
Hansberry- A was this
Raisin in the movement so Overcoming
Sun (Broadway important?) great obstacles
play) and oppression
What obstacles
Still I Rise- have you Social Art
Maya Angelou overcome in
your life? Write Racism, Race
a short story. relations and
discrimination-
how it still
exists

African
American
 writing-new
perspectives

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 6: Media NY Times Read a current Keep informed 5 weeks
and its event every on current
influence(its Newseum.org week- write times
use and response
technology) Other forms of journals (self Experience a
media: art, assessment of novel, play,
photography, your role in speech in a
music, film, society) creative,
advertising engaging way
(Look at each Using a form of
in the context media/technol Violence,
of the readings ogy to depict a Sexism, and
in past units) novel, play, or similar
speech that messages in
1984 by has been the media
George Orwell covered in any
unit (webpage, The strong
collage, film, social and
write music, cultural impact
etc.) upon society

Reading
quizzes for
1984

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 7: Voices We Are A final project A look at 6 weeks
of War. Soldiers Still: A that will tie exactly what
The tension Journey Back units together, happened in
surrounding to the either Vietnam, a
Vietnam and Battlefields of comparing a country in
the protests Vietnam by text to another uproar, war
that took Harold G. time protests, the
place. Moore and period/historic culture of the
Joseph L. al context, two 60’s, race
Galloway texts from relations.
OR separate units,
We were two authors, Novel
Soldiers etc.
Once...And Films
Young: Ia Discussions of
Drang--The the current war Comparing
Battle That in Iraq and a Vietnam to Iraq
Changed The look at how
War In Vietnam society differed Discussion
by Harold G. or was similar
Moore and during Vietnam
Joseph L.
Galloway Make protest
signs or signs
Across the that display
Universe (film) your feelings
on war
Stop-Loss
(film)