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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Below are the RRT Modules for English 11 that are available should a district not provide their own scope and sequence for a custom curriculum developed from our bank of standards-aligned lessons. These standards-aligned lessons can be reconfigured from the extended text curriculum, short text curriculum, and the Common Core grammar curriculum. Lessons listed below in the modules follow New York Common Core adopted standards for the Reading and Writing. In addition, as Grammar is decided at the local level as far as alignment for modules, you will find the available Grammar lessons in the Grammar curriculum listed at the end of the English descriptions. In a base RRT course, these will be interspersed unless a scope and sequence is shared by the district. Lessons are designed using a best practice model that includes scaffolding, vocabulary, guided practice, independent practice, and written response opportunities for students to evaluate, debate, and summarize.

CHAPTERS

Module A
Short Texts
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Excerpt from Society and Solitude
Goblin Market
The Minister’s Black Veil
Excerpt from Democracy in America
Extended Text
Hamlet
Research Project
Research Project: Grade 11 Module A

Module B
Short Texts
The Middle Passage
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A Modest Proposal
My Last Duchess
Extended Text
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Research Project
Research Project: Grade 11 Module B

Module C
Short Texts
Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXIX
The Gettysburg Address
The Blue and the Gray
Excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels
Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union
Extended Text
The Crucible
Research Project
Research Project: Grade 11 Module C

Module D
Short Texts
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Cherry Orchard
Brown v. Board of Education
Excerpt from The Trial
Extended Text
The Great Gatsby
Research Project
Research Project: Grade 11 Module D