| 10th Grade English/Language Arts | |||||||
| High School Level Matrix | |||||||
| SASinSchool Correlations to WV CSOs | |||||||
| Janet Benincosa, Harrison County Technology Integration Specialist | |||||||
| Block | /Traditional Schedule | ||||||
| WV CSO | InterActivity | Classroom Activity | Project | Web Inquiry | Web Lesson | ||
| RLA.O.10.1.2 | 2 to 5 | 5 | Social Criticism in The Clouds by Aristophanes | Performing a Noh Play | In what sense is Octavio Paz's poem "Wind and Water and Stone" a commentary on human life and civilization? | Beneath the Shadow of Vesuvius | |
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Exploring the Decameron Web | ||||||
| Infinity and the Unanswerable Question in Labyrinths | Islamic Scholarship | ||||||
| Satire in Voltaire's Candide | |||||||
| Goethe and the Birth of Romanticism | |||||||
| Goodness and Fortune in Machiavelli's The Prince | |||||||
| Imagery and Love in The Stories of Eva Luna | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.1.3 | 1 & 3 to 4 | 5 | Social Criticism in The Clouds by Aristophanes | The Unlikely Hero in the Bible | Exploring Egyptian Mythology | ||
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Love, Loss, Danger, and Self-Discovery in the Odyssey | Goethe and the Birth of Romanticism | |||||
| Initiation in The Dark Child | Judging the Character of Zuleika | ||||||
| Love on the 17th-Century Stage | |||||||
| Marriage and Friendship in So Long a Letter | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.1.4 | 2 to 4 | 5 | Creating a Reading Assessment Portfolio | How does active reading improve reading comprehension? | Reading for Information | ||
| RLA.O.10.1.5 | 1 | 2 | Greek, Latin, and English | Dissecting Medical Terminology | How can an awareness of context clues improve vocabulary and reading comprehension? | Proto-Indo-European and Comparative Linguistics | |
| Reading The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | What is the difference between affect and effect? | Specialized Vocabularies | |||||
| The Romance of Old France | How is hubris revealed in Oedipus Rex? | Two Ancient Chinese Paths | |||||
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Goodness and Fortune in Machiavelli's The Prince | ||||||
| Goethe and the Birth of Romanticism | |||||||
| WV CSO | InterActivity | Classroom Activity | Project | Web Inquiry | Web Lesson | ||
| RLA.O.10.1.6 | 2 to 4 | 4 | Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | The Unlikely Hero in the Bible | In what ways does Canto 1 of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy reflect the theology of the medieval period? | Beneath the Shadow of Vesuvius | |
| Conflict and Honor in The Cid | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | What are the characteristics of the Persian poetic form called a ghazal? | Exploring the Decameron Web | ||||
| Interior Landscapes in French Poetry | Satire in Voltaire's Candide | ||||||
| Lyrical Tragedy in Blood Wedding and Yerma | Goethe and the Birth of Romanticism | ||||||
| Initiation in The Dark Child | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.1.7 | 2 to 4 | 4 | Reading for Decision-Making | The Unlikely Hero in the Bible | How does active reading improve reading comprehension? | Beneath the Shadow of Vesuvius | |
| Social Criticism in The Clouds by Aristophanes | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | In what ways does Canto 1 of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy reflect the theology of the medieval period? | Two Ancient Chinese Paths | ||||
| The Divine Child of Hinduism | The Cherry Orchard and European Modernism | In what ways is Don Quixote a satire of medieval chivalry? | Exploring the Decameron Web | ||||
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Satire in Voltaire's Candide | ||||||
| Epic Theater in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.1.8 | 2 | 4 | Interior Landscapes in French Poetry | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | What function do epithets and apostrophes serve in "The Great Hymn to the Aten"? | Islamic Scholarship | |
| Lyrical Tragedy in Blood Wedding and Yerma | Writing a Volume of Poetry | How does Li Po's poetry reflect the Chinese shih poetic form? | Transforming Words into Poetry | ||||
| A Common Theme in a Korean Story and Poem | Why do poets use established stanza forms? | Image and Theme in French African Poetry | |||||
| What are some common characteristics of African proverbs? | |||||||
| In what sense is Octavio Paz's poem "Wind and Water and Stone" a commentary on human life and civilization? | |||||||
| Why do poets use established stanza forms? | Transforming Words into Poetry | ||||||
| WV CSO | InterActivity | Classroom Activity | Project | Web Inquiry | Web Lesson | ||
| RLA.O.10.1.9 | 2 & 4 | 5 | Social Criticism in The Clouds by Aristophanes | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | What is a logical fallacy? | Beneath the Shadow of Vesuvius | |
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Love on the 17th-Century Stage | ||||||
| Conflict and Honor in The Cid | From Romanticism to Realism | ||||||
| RLA.O.10.1.11 | 1 & 4 | 4 | Greek, Latin, and English | Dissecting Medical Terminology | Specialized Vocabularies | ||
| RLA.O.10.1.12 | 1 | 1 | Greek, Latin, and English | Dissecting Medical Terminology | Specialized Vocabularies | ||
| RLA.O.10.2.1 | 2 | 1 | Reading for Decision-Making | Critical Thinking about Multicultural Perspectives | Two Ancient Chinese Paths | ||
| Writing an Introduction | Love, Loss, Danger, and Self-Discovery in the Odyssey | Goodness and Fortune in Machiavelli's The Prince | |||||
| The Divine Child of Hinduism | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | Goethe and the Birth of Romanticism | |||||
| The Romance of Old France | From Romanticism to Realism | ||||||
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | ||||||
| Judging the Character of Zuleika | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.2 | 2 | 2 | Prewriting Strategies | ||||
| RLA.O.10.2.3 | 2 | 3 | Ask a Question, Take a Quest | Creating an Original Fictional World | Beneath the Shadow of Vesuvius | ||
| Reading for Decision-Making | The Writing Process and the Rhetorical Modes | The Father of Modern Chinese Literature | |||||
| Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Love, Loss, Danger, and Self-Discovery in the Odyssey | Beneath the Shadow of Vesuvius | |||||
| Initiation in The Dark Child | Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | Islamic Scholarship | |||||
| Ask a Question, Take a Quest | Creating an Original Fictional World | ||||||
| Reading for Decision-Making | The Writing Process and the Rhetorical Modes | ||||||
| Love, Loss, Danger, and Self-Discovery in the Odyssey | |||||||
| Verse Selections from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.4 | 2 | 4 | Writing an Introduction | Defining and Assessing Argumentation | Prewriting Strategies | ||
| My Modest Proposal | Paragraph Structure in the Academic Essay | ||||||
| WV CSO | InterActivity | Classroom Activity | Project | Web Inquiry | Web Lesson | ||
| RLA.O.10.2.5 | 2 & 3 to 5 | 2 | Ambiguity, Limits, and Contradiction in Montaigne's Essays | Defining and Assessing Argumentation | How would you organize a comparison of two short poems by using the point method and the block method? | The Father of Modern Chinese Literature | |
| Conflict and Honor in The Cid | What is a logical fallacy? | Islamic Scholarship | |||||
| Initiation in The Dark Child | How is hubris revealed in Oedipus Rex? | ||||||
| How does Li Po's poetry reflect the Chinese shih poetic form? | |||||||
| What revolutionary views on education and government did Rousseau contribute to the Enlightenment? | |||||||
| What is the "superman theory" in Crime and Punishment? | |||||||
| How is hubris revealed in Oedipus Rex? | |||||||
| How does Li Po's poetry reflect the Chinese shih poetic form? | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.6 | 2 | 2 | Writing an Introduction | ||||
| Using Connectives | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.7 | 2 | 2 | Sentence Choices | Mastering Sentence Correctness through Structure | A Stylistic Makeover | What are rhetorical devices, and how can they make sentences more persuasive? | Sentence Combining |
| Varying Sentence Patterns | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.8 | 2 | 2 | Sentence Sense | Understanding Idioms | Verbs: Heart of the Sentence | ||
| Sentence Choices | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.9 | 2 & 4 to 5 | 3 | Word Classes | Revising, editing, and proofing-what's the difference? | Coordination and Subordination | ||
| Sentence Structure | |||||||
| Sentence Sense | |||||||
| Sentence Boundaries | |||||||
| Sentence Choices | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.10 | 3 | 3 | Reading for Decision-Making | Assessing and Documenting Internet Sources | |||
| The Internet and the Academic Essay | |||||||
| WV CSO | InterActivity | Classroom Activity | Project | Web Inquiry | Web Lesson | ||
| RLA.O.10.2.11 | 3 | 4 | The Divine Child of Hinduism | Defining and Assessing Argumentation | How does Li Po's poetry reflect the Chinese shih poetic form? | Reading for Information | |
| The Divine Child of Hinduism | The Colloquies of Erasmus | In what ways is Don Quixote a satire of medieval chivalry? | Exploring Egyptian Mythology | ||||
| Defining and Assessing Argumentation | How does Li Po's poetry reflect the Chinese shih poetic form? | Exploring the Decameron Web | |||||
| Reading for Information | |||||||
| Exploring Egyptian Mythology | |||||||
| Islamic Scholarship | |||||||
| Exploring the Decameron Web | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.12 | 3 | 4 | What are strategies for avoiding plagiarism? | Assessing and Documenting Internet Sources | |||
| RLA.O.10.2.13 | 3 to 4 | 4 | Ask a Question, Take a Quest | From Idea Webs to Web Essays | In what sense is Octavio Paz's poem "Wind and Water and Stone" a commentary on human life and civilization? | Prewriting Strategies | |
| Infinity and the Unanswerable Question in Labyrinths | Positions of Power | What are some common characteristics of African proverbs? | Imagery and Love in The Stories of Eva Luna | ||||
| How did traditional Japanese culture influence Yasunari Kawabata's writings? | Image and Theme in French African Poetry | ||||||
| Islamic Scholarship | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.14 | 3 to 4 | 4 | Assessing and Documenting Internet Sources | ||||
| RLA.O.10.2.15 | 3 | 4 | Greek, Latin, and English | How are phonetics, phonemics, and speech production related? | |||
| RLA.O.10.2.16 | 3 | 1 | Word Classes | Using Connectives | Using Structural Signals to Recognize Parts of Speech | What are the principles of correct pronoun usage? | Verbs: Heart of the Sentence |
| The Structural Linguist at Work | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.17 | 1 | 1 | Sentence Structure | Mastering Sentence Correctness through Structure | Sentence Structure Scrapbook | What are the six basic simple sentence patterns? | Understanding Phrases |
| RLA.O.10.2.18 | 1 | 2 | Word Classes | ||||
| Sentence Structure | |||||||
| Sentence Sense | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.2.19 | 1 | 5 | Sentence Sense | Verbs: Heart of the Sentence | |||
| RLA.O.10.2.20 | 1 | 5 | Sentence Sense | Memorable Dangling Modifiers | Sentence Structure Scrapbook | Fixing Fragments | |
| Sentence Structure | |||||||
| RLA.O.10.3.1 | x | 1 | Testing Listening Skills | ||||
| RLA.O.10.3.2 | x | 1 | Active Listening | ||||
| WV CSO | InterActivity | Classroom Activity | Project | Web Inquiry | Web Lesson | ||
| RLA.O.10.3.3 | 1 | 5 | Analyzing Public Speaking | What are the most important elements of an effective speech? | |||
| RLA.O.10.3.4 | 1 | 1 | Sentence Choices | American and Global English Dialects | |||
| RLA.O.10.3.5 | x | 1 | Analyzing Public Speaking | ||||