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Common Quarterly ELA Maps

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The following Common Core Curriculum Maps for English Language Arts were selected by grade-band teams at the August 2012 in-service workshop. Complete maps may be accessed through the Common Core Curriculum Maps website.


Kindergarten  (Even year for combined grade classrooms) 

Q1:     UNIT 1     "A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme"
Q2:     UNIT 2     "Tell a Story, 1-2-3"
Q3:     UNIT 4     "America: Symbols & Celebrations"
Q4:     UNIT 6     "Wonders of Nature: Plants, Bugs, & Frogs"

Grade 1 (Odd year for combined grade classrooms)

Q1:     UNIT 1     "Alphabet Books and Children Who Read Them"
Q2:     UNIT 2     "The Amazing Animal World"
Q3:     UNIT 3     "Life Lessons"
Q4:     UNIT 5     "American Contributions"

Grade 2 (Even year)

Q1:     UNIT 1    "A Season for Chapters"
Q2:     UNIT 3    "Building Bridges with Unlikely Friends"
Q3:     UNIT 4    "A Long Journey to Freedom"
Q4:     UNIT 5    "Hand-Me-Down Tales From Around the World"

Grade 3 (Odd year)

Q1:     UNIT 2    "Inspired by the Sea"
Q2:     UNIT 4    "The People, the Preamble, and the Presidents"
Q3:     UNIT 5    "A Feast of Words on a Planet Called Earth -- and Beyond"
Q4:     UNIT 6     "Fantastic Adventures with Dragons, Gods, and Giants"

Grade 4 (Even year)

Q1:     UNIT 1     "Tales of the Heart"
Q2:     UNIT 2     "Literature Settings: Weather or Not" 
Q3:     UNIT 3     "Animals are Characters, Too: Characters Who Gallop, Bark, and Squeak"
Q4:     UNIT 4     "Revolutionaries from the Past"

Grade 5 (Odd year)

Q1:     UNIT 1    "Playing With Words"
Q2:     UNIT 2    "Renaissance Thinking"
Q3:     UNIT 3    "Clues to a Culture"
Q4:     UNIT 4    "America in Conflict"

Grade 6 (Even year)

Q1:     UNIT 1    "I Won't Grow Up"
Q2:     UNIT 2    "Folklore: A Blast from the Past"
Q3:     UNIT 4    "Courageous Characters"
Q4:     UNIT 6    "Winging It"

Grade 7 (Odd year)

Q1:     UNIT
Q2:     UNIT
Q3:     UNIT
Q4:     UNIT

Grade 8 (Even year)

Q1:     UNIT 1    "Urban Settings in America: 'It Happened in the City'"
Q2:     UNIT 2    "Rural Settings in North America: 'It Happened in the Country'"
Q3:     UNIT 3    "Looking Back on America"
Q4:     UNIT 6    "The Road Not Taken"

Grade 9: Literature and Composition (Odd year)

Q1:     UNIT 1            "Literary Elements and the Short Story"
Q2:     UNIT 2            "The Novel: Honor"
Q3:     UNITS 3 & 4    "Poetry: Beauty" AND "Drama: Fate"     
Q4:     UNIT 6            "Literary Nonfiction: Reflection (The Memoir, the Essay, the Speech"

Grade 10: World Literature (Even year)

Q1:     UNIT 1    "World Literature: Latin & Central America"
Q2:     UNIT 2    "World Literature: Asia"
Q3:     UNIT 3    "World Literature: Africa & the Middle East"
Q4:     UNIT 4    "World Literature: Russia"

Grade 11: American Literature (Odd year)

Q1:     UNIT 3    "American Romanticism"
Q2:     UNIT 4    "A Troubled Young Nation"
Q3:     UNIT 5    "Emerging Modernism"
Q4:     UNIT 6    "Challenges & Successes of the Twentieth Century"

Grade 12: British Literature (Even year)

Q1:     UNIT 2    "European Literature: Renaissance and Reformation"
Q2:     UNIT 3    "European Literature: Seventeenth Century"
Q3:     UNIT 5    "European Literature: Nineteenth Century"
Q4:     UNIT 6    "European Literature: Twentieth Century"
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