NORDHEIM HIGH SCHOOL
500 N. BROADWAY
Nordheim, TX 78141
MRS. MOY---English III---11th‎ grade
1st six weeks’ syllabus (08/‎13/ý2025-09/19/2025)

Unit 1-The American Story Begins
"Totally Free?" (mentor text-argument)
*Word Network
*Quick write (What makes a nation?)

"A New Nation" (timeline 1700-1800)

*Causes and Effects of the American Revolution
*Graph

"Hiawatha the Unifier" (an Iroquois myth retold from Victorian sources)
*Reading Comprehension Questions
*Close Read (multiple choice)
*Composition (Literary Analysis)
*Author's Craft (tone, diction, and syntax)

"Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson
*Vocabulary (Ethos, Logos, and Pathos)
*Questions
*Literary/Text Elements
 (argumentative text, audience, structure and thesis)

"Speech in the Convention" by Benjamin Franklin
*Analysis Questions
* Concept Vocabulary 
*Writing (Argumentative Essay)

"Speech in the Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry
*Comprehension Questions
*Literary/Text Elements
*Concept Vocabulary
*Writing to Compare (Speeches)

"The American Revolution: Political Imagery" 
*Analysis and Discussion
*Concept Vocabulary

Major Writing Assignment (Argumentative)

 from "America's Constitution: A Biography" by Grayson Schaffer
*Questions
*Vocabulary
*Literary/Text Elements (Numerical data, Historical details, Examples, and Direct Quotations
*Author's Craft

from " Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano
*Comprehension Questions
*About the Author
*Author's Purpose, Audience, and Message
*Writing (Personal Correspondence)

Poetry
"Voyage" by Carmen Tafolla
"Englishmen's Footprints" by Cheryl Savageau
"Old South Meeting House" by January Gill O'Neal
*Analysis and Discussion
*Poetry Reading
Video Presentation-(Major Test)
"Pearl Harbor" 
*Notes
*Character Analysis

1st Novel--- “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

*Twelve Daily Grades per six weeks
*Two Major Test Grades per six weeks
*Quizzes (anytime)

Contact Information
Mrs. Dawn Moy
email- dmoy@nordheimisd.org
phone- (361) 938-5211 
 Ext. 303

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