Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6-12

Jeanne H. Purcell - Connecticut State Department of Education
Jann H. Leppien - University of Great Falls
Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6-12
August 2009 | 232 pages | Corwin
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"The Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) holds the power to help students and teachers 'see the whole' of what they are learning. We invite practitioners to read more about this model and join us on a professional journey that we believe will yield that joy and wisdom that comes from seeing the whole. To address the varying needs of teachers across the K–12 grade span—as well as different content areas—we decided to create a series of curriculum units, based on PCM, that could be used by practitioners. It is our hope that the lessons not only underscore important and discipline-specific content, but also illuminate the four parallels in unique and enduring ways."
—From the Introduction

Design exemplary language arts lessons based on the Parallel Curriculum Model!

Want to create rigorous learning opportunities for students in language arts based on a deeper understanding of pedagogy and curriculum design? As demonstrated in the best-selling book The Parallel Curriculum, the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) allows teachers to determine student performance levels and design intellectual challenges that help students develop expertise in specific subject areas.

Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6–12 provides sample language arts units written by practicing teachers to demonstrate what high-quality curriculum looks like within a PCM framework. Covering a variety of topics—including narrative voice, literary criticism, and writing original pieces—these field-tested units each contain:

  • Teacher rationales explaining the unit design
  • Connections to concepts, skills, and national or state standards
  • Step-by-step directions for delivering the lessons and unit
  • Modification strategies, assessments, and reproducibles

Use these examples to design your own units and deepen your understanding of how the PCM framework helps tailor curriculum to the abilities, interests, and learning preferences of each learner.

Contents

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Introduction to the Parallel Curriculum Model

  • 1. Understanding and Finding Your Author's Voice: An Intermediate Language Arts Unit (Grades 6-7)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 1.1: The Contributors to Identity
  • Lesson 1.2: Shaping Your Voice
  • Lesson 1.3: The Influences on Mood
  • Lesson 1.4: Analyzing an Author's Voice
  • Lesson 1.5: Finding the Right Voice and Mood for Your Purpose
  • Lesson 1.6: Your Turn
  • 2. The LIttle Napoleon in Us All: Literary Criticism and the Battle for Power (Grade 8)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 2.1: Preassessment/Brainstorming
  • Lesson 2.2: What Is Allegory?
  • Lesson 2.3: Diary of an Author
  • Lesson 2.4: Write a Personal Allegory
  • Lesson 2.5: Character Analysis, Part I
  • Lesson 2.6: Orwell's Responsibility
  • Lesson 2.7: Literary Criticism
  • Lesson 2.8: WRite a Literary Critique of Animal Farm
  • Lesson 2.9: Character Analysis Map, Part II
  • Lesson 2.10: What Is a Classic?
  • Lesson 2.11: Survivor: The Isms
  • Lesson 2.12: Final Assessment
  • 3. Reacting to a Literary Model: Writing Original Pieces (Grades 9-10)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 3.1: Preassessment
  • Lessons 3.2 and 3.3: Setting and Mood
  • Lessons 3.4 and 3.5: Creating Realistic Characters
  • Lessons 3.6 and 3.7: Prejudice, Conflict, and Theme
  • Lesson 3.8: Postassessment
  • 4. You Be the Critic: Understanding, Using, and Writing Literary Criticism (Grades 11-12)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 4.1: Introduction to Literary Criticism
  • Lesson 4.2: Analyzing a Fictional passage for Content
  • Lessons 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5: Character Development and Point of View
  • Lessons 4.6 and 4.7: Understanding Tone
  • Lessons 4.8 and 4.9: What Is Style?
  • Lesson 4.10: Recognizing Style
  • Lesson 4.11: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
  • Lessons 4.12 and 4.13 The Persuasive Essay and the Editorial
  • Lessons 4.14 and 4.15: Writing a Literary Analysis

Index

Index

Description

"The Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) holds the power to help students and teachers 'see the whole' of what they are learning. We invite practitioners to read more about this model and join us on a professional journey that we believe will yield that joy and wisdom that comes from seeing the whole. To address the varying needs of teachers across the K–12 grade span—as well as different content areas—we decided to create a series of curriculum units, based on PCM, that could be used by practitioners. It is our hope that the lessons not only underscore important and discipline-specific content, but also illuminate the four parallels in unique and enduring ways."
—From the Introduction

Design exemplary language arts lessons based on the Parallel Curriculum Model!

Want to create rigorous learning opportunities for students in language arts based on a deeper understanding of pedagogy and curriculum design? As demonstrated in the best-selling book The Parallel Curriculum, the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) allows teachers to determine student performance levels and design intellectual challenges that help students develop expertise in specific subject areas.

Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6–12 provides sample language arts units written by practicing teachers to demonstrate what high-quality curriculum looks like within a PCM framework. Covering a variety of topics—including narrative voice, literary criticism, and writing original pieces—these field-tested units each contain:

  • Teacher rationales explaining the unit design
  • Connections to concepts, skills, and national or state standards
  • Step-by-step directions for delivering the lessons and unit
  • Modification strategies, assessments, and reproducibles

Use these examples to design your own units and deepen your understanding of how the PCM framework helps tailor curriculum to the abilities, interests, and learning preferences of each learner.

Contents

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Introduction to the Parallel Curriculum Model

  • 1. Understanding and Finding Your Author's Voice: An Intermediate Language Arts Unit (Grades 6-7)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 1.1: The Contributors to Identity
  • Lesson 1.2: Shaping Your Voice
  • Lesson 1.3: The Influences on Mood
  • Lesson 1.4: Analyzing an Author's Voice
  • Lesson 1.5: Finding the Right Voice and Mood for Your Purpose
  • Lesson 1.6: Your Turn
  • 2. The LIttle Napoleon in Us All: Literary Criticism and the Battle for Power (Grade 8)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 2.1: Preassessment/Brainstorming
  • Lesson 2.2: What Is Allegory?
  • Lesson 2.3: Diary of an Author
  • Lesson 2.4: Write a Personal Allegory
  • Lesson 2.5: Character Analysis, Part I
  • Lesson 2.6: Orwell's Responsibility
  • Lesson 2.7: Literary Criticism
  • Lesson 2.8: WRite a Literary Critique of Animal Farm
  • Lesson 2.9: Character Analysis Map, Part II
  • Lesson 2.10: What Is a Classic?
  • Lesson 2.11: Survivor: The Isms
  • Lesson 2.12: Final Assessment
  • 3. Reacting to a Literary Model: Writing Original Pieces (Grades 9-10)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 3.1: Preassessment
  • Lessons 3.2 and 3.3: Setting and Mood
  • Lessons 3.4 and 3.5: Creating Realistic Characters
  • Lessons 3.6 and 3.7: Prejudice, Conflict, and Theme
  • Lesson 3.8: Postassessment
  • 4. You Be the Critic: Understanding, Using, and Writing Literary Criticism (Grades 11-12)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 4.1: Introduction to Literary Criticism
  • Lesson 4.2: Analyzing a Fictional passage for Content
  • Lessons 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5: Character Development and Point of View
  • Lessons 4.6 and 4.7: Understanding Tone
  • Lessons 4.8 and 4.9: What Is Style?
  • Lesson 4.10: Recognizing Style
  • Lesson 4.11: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
  • Lessons 4.12 and 4.13 The Persuasive Essay and the Editorial
  • Lessons 4.14 and 4.15: Writing a Literary Analysis

Index

Index

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Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6-12

Jeanne H. Purcell , Jann H. Leppien
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"The Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) holds the power to help students and teachers 'see the whole' of what they are learning. We invite practitioners to read more about this model and join us on a professional journey that we believe will yield that joy and wisdom that comes from seeing the whole. To address the varying needs of teachers across the K–12 grade span—as well as different content areas—we decided to create a series of curriculum units, based on PCM, that could be used by practitioners. It is our hope that the lessons not only underscore important and discipline-specific content, but also illuminate the four parallels in unique and enduring ways."
—From the Introduction

Design exemplary language arts lessons based on the Parallel Curriculum Model!

Want to create rigorous learning opportunities for students in language arts based on a deeper understanding of pedagogy and curriculum design? As demonstrated in the best-selling book The Parallel Curriculum, the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) allows teachers to determine student performance levels and design intellectual challenges that help students develop expertise in specific subject areas.

Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6–12 provides sample language arts units written by practicing teachers to demonstrate what high-quality curriculum looks like within a PCM framework. Covering a variety of topics—including narrative voice, literary criticism, and writing original pieces—these field-tested units each contain:

  • Teacher rationales explaining the unit design
  • Connections to concepts, skills, and national or state standards
  • Step-by-step directions for delivering the lessons and unit
  • Modification strategies, assessments, and reproducibles

Use these examples to design your own units and deepen your understanding of how the PCM framework helps tailor curriculum to the abilities, interests, and learning preferences of each learner.


Table Of Contents:

  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction to the Parallel Curriculum Model
  • 1. Understanding and Finding Your Author's Voice: An Intermediate Language Arts Unit (Grades 6-7)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 1.1: The Contributors to Identity
  • Lesson 1.2: Shaping Your Voice
  • Lesson 1.3: The Influences on Mood
  • Lesson 1.4: Analyzing an Author's Voice
  • Lesson 1.5: Finding the Right Voice and Mood for Your Purpose
  • Lesson 1.6: Your Turn
  • 2. The LIttle Napoleon in Us All: Literary Criticism and the Battle for Power (Grade 8)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 2.1: Preassessment/Brainstorming
  • Lesson 2.2: What Is Allegory?
  • Lesson 2.3: Diary of an Author
  • Lesson 2.4: Write a Personal Allegory
  • Lesson 2.5: Character Analysis, Part I
  • Lesson 2.6: Orwell's Responsibility
  • Lesson 2.7: Literary Criticism
  • Lesson 2.8: WRite a Literary Critique of Animal Farm
  • Lesson 2.9: Character Analysis Map, Part II
  • Lesson 2.10: What Is a Classic?
  • Lesson 2.11: Survivor: The Isms
  • Lesson 2.12: Final Assessment
  • 3. Reacting to a Literary Model: Writing Original Pieces (Grades 9-10)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 3.1: Preassessment
  • Lessons 3.2 and 3.3: Setting and Mood
  • Lessons 3.4 and 3.5: Creating Realistic Characters
  • Lessons 3.6 and 3.7: Prejudice, Conflict, and Theme
  • Lesson 3.8: Postassessment
  • 4. You Be the Critic: Understanding, Using, and Writing Literary Criticism (Grades 11-12)
  • Introduction to the Unit
  • Content Framework
  • Assessments
  • Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
  • Lesson 4.1: Introduction to Literary Criticism
  • Lesson 4.2: Analyzing a Fictional passage for Content
  • Lessons 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5: Character Development and Point of View
  • Lessons 4.6 and 4.7: Understanding Tone
  • Lessons 4.8 and 4.9: What Is Style?
  • Lesson 4.10: Recognizing Style
  • Lesson 4.11: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
  • Lessons 4.12 and 4.13 The Persuasive Essay and the Editorial
  • Lessons 4.14 and 4.15: Writing a Literary Analysis
  • Index

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