Literature Syllabus/Scope & Sequence

(actual classroom performance and/or scheduled holidays may affect timeline)

Intro  Unit: The Power of Ideas Genres Workshop

Unit 2: TAWS Character & Point of View; The Scholarship Jacket

Unit 2: The Scholarship Jacket cont.; Unit 3:TAWS Understanding Theme; Amigo Bros.
Unit 3: Amigo Bros. Cont.
Unit 4: TAWS Mood & Style
Unit 4: Dark They Were

Unit 5: TAWS Appreciating Poetry; Unit 5: The Names
Unit 5: The Names cont.

LITERATURE STUDY: THE TALE OF DESPERAUX

Unit 6: TAWS myths! Legends, Epics & Tales
Unit 6: Promethus/Orpheus
Unit 7: TAWS Biographies & Autobiographies

Unit 7: E. Roosevelt
Unit 7: Read for Info : A First Lady Speaks Out
LITERATURE STUDY: BUD, NOT BUDDY

Unit 1: Riki-Tikki-Tavi;

Unit 1: Casey at the Bat

Unit 4: Breaking the Ice

YEAR 2:

Unit 8: TAWS Reading for Info
Unit 8: Sharks
Unit 9: Reading Strategies wrks: Looking for Information; Unit 9: Writing wrks: Research Paper
Unit 9: Writing wrks: Research Paper cont.
Unit9:  Writing wrks: Research Paper; Unit 1: The Last Dog
Unit 1:The Last Dog

Unit 2: Dirk the Protector 
Unit 3: The War of the Wall
Unit 4: A Day's Wait

Unit 4: Reading for Info: How Hemmingway Wrote

Unit 5: The Earth...

LITERATURE STUDY: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Unit 6: Icarus & Daedalus/ Phaetheon
Unit 7: Names/ Nombres

Unit 8: Great White Sharks;
Unit 2: It Was a Long Time Before/Abulito Who
Unit 3: A Crush
Unit 4: The People Could Fly

Unit 5: Jabberwocky/ Sarah...Garbage/Two Limericks
Unit 6: Beowulf; Unit 7: The Noble Experiment
Unit 7: The Noble Experiment cont.
LITERATURE STUDY: THE OUTSIDERS
Unit 7: Read for Info: Jackie Robinson Makes Headlines

Unit 7: Media Study: Jackie Robinson
Unit 8: Like Black Smoke/ A World Turned cont.;
Unit 3: The Giver;
Unit 5: The Dlight Song/Four Skinny Trees

Unit 6: Young Arthur
Unit 6: Young Arthur

Unit 7: Clara Barton
Unit 1: Media Study: Back to the Future; Unit 2:*
Unit 2:* 

Unit 3: Read for Info: Homeless;

Unit 5: Media Study: A Christmas Carol