Hale Center ISD

HONORS ENGLISH I

First Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Journeys of Transformation

Primary Fiction:  Novel:  The Hobbit

Other Fiction:  The Odyssey Parts 1 & 2

Primary Nonfiction:  from The Hero’s Adventure

Primary Grammar:  Nouns/Verbs

Primary Writing Lesson:  Expository Writing

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over The Hobbit

Second Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Survival

Primary Fiction:  Novel of choice with approval

Other Fiction: “Through the Tunnel,” “The Seventh Man,” “The Most Dangerous Game”

Primary Nonfiction:  The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt

Primary Grammar:  Parts of the Sentence/ Prepositional and Participial Phrases

Performance Based Assessment:  Activities for the novel of choice

Third Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Crazy, Stupid Love

STAAR Benchmark

STAAR Practices for Reading and Writing

Primary Fiction:  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Primary Nonfiction:  What’s the Rush?  Young Brains Cause Doomed Love

Primary Grammar:  Clauses and Sentence Structure

Primary Writing Lesson:  Expository Writing

Performance Based Assessment:  Expository Essays (preparing for STAAR)

Fourth Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  World’s End

STAAR Practice leading to the test

Research Project:  Web Quest over Animal Farm

Primary Fiction:  Animal Farm by George Orwell

Other Fiction: “There Shall Come Soft Rains” & “By the Waters of Babylon”

Primary Nonfiction: Preparedness 101: The Zombie Apocalypse/A Visit to the Doomsday Vault

Group Activities:  Socratic Seminars over Animal Farm

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over novel