Hale Center ISD

HONORS ENGLISH II

First Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Dystopian Societies

Research Lesson:  Animal Farm and George Orwell

Research Project:  Web quest:  Russian/Bolshevik Revolution

Primary Fiction:  Animal Farm  by George Orwell

Primary Grammar:  Parts of the Sentence/Phrases

Primary Writing Lesson:  Expository Writing Level I

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over novel

Second Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Inside the Nightmare

Primary Fiction:  1984 by George Orwell

Other Fiction:  “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Where is Here?”

Primary Nonfiction:  Principles of Newspeak and Afterword (this goes with the novel 1984)

Group Activities:  Socratic Seminars over 1984

Primary Writing:  Argumentative Writing Level I

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over Edgar Allan Poe’s works

Third Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Virtue and Vengeance

STAAR Benchmark

STAAR Practices for Reading and Writing

Primary Fiction:  Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Primary Grammar:  Clauses and Sentence Structure

Primary Writing Lesson:  Expository/Argumentative Writing Level II

Performance Based Assessment:  Expository/Argumentative Essays (preparing for STAAR)

Fourth Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Outsiders and Outcasts

Primary Fiction:  The Grapes of Wrath

Primary Nonfiction:  Documentary:   Stories from the Dust Bowl

STAAR Lessons to prepare for the test

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over Grapes of Wrath