Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Learning Coach Guide Contents Welcome Letter Dear Learning Coach, Thank you for partnering with CCA and investing in your learner’s education. This Learning Coach Guide is intended to help you support your learner in their English 11 course. Within this guide, you will find the goals, components, and features of the online course. Please take time to read and review this information so you understand how to help your learner interact with all the course’s elements. The Learning Coach Guide also includes information about each of the units in this course. On each page of unit information, you will discover the following. The Unit Overview will tell you what the focus, content, and skills of the unit will be. The Unit Assessment section is a place for you and your learner to preview the graded work in the course. At the start of each unit, work with your learner to look at the unit in edio and find out which types of graded work are in this unit. Write them in the box and use it as a checklist. You can check off each one as your learner completes it. The Unit Materials section tells you the materials your learner will need to complete the activities in this unit. You will also find the materials list repeated within each lesson so that your learner has exactly what they need at the right time. In the Unit Notables section, you may find optional activities, literature connections, career connections, technology tips, ideas to help your learner if they get stuck, or safety tips. The Unit Discussion Questions are optional questions that you may want to ask your learner during the unit to increase home and school connections about what your learner is studying. CCA wishes you and your learner a terrific school year! Supporting Your Learner Your role as a Learning Coach is very important. Here are a few ways you can help your learner do their very best in the course. Help your learner know what time guided or live class instruction is scheduled for, and prompt them to attend sessions or watch recordings. Remember, it is okay for your learner to get stuck. Learning new material takes time. Encourage them to take breaks, keep trying, and even ask the teacher for help. Help your learner navigate technology. That may mean helping them type information or upload work into edio. Always encourage your learner to do their very best. Review the course syllabus for your learner’s course. Maintain communication with your learner’s teacher. Part B:Course Information Course Goals The English 11 course builds upon the learners’ ability to read and analyze literature written across a variety of time periods. Learners will explore how historical events shape writing. They will examine how historical context shapes writing. Learners analyze diverse texts, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, to continue developing critical thinking and literary analysis skills. The course emphasizes the skills needed to produce well-written works, concentrating on constructing arguments, conducting research, and expressing complex ideas effectively, while exploring elements of style and the choices available to good writers—all preparing learners for advanced academic writing and critical analysis. In English 11, your learner will use the foundations they learned in prior English classes. By the end of the year, your learner will be able to: analyze and interpret complex literary and informational texts from various periods of American literature, evaluating how an author’s choices concerning structure, style, and content contribute to the overall meaning and effectiveness of the work; develop and strengthen writing skills across various modes (informative/explanatory, argumentative, and narrative), with a focus on crafting clear, coherent, and well-structured compositions appropriate to task, purpose, and audience; conduct sustained research projects, synthesizing multiple sources on a subject to demonstrate understanding of the topic under investigation and to support analysis, reflection, and inquiry; evaluate and integrate information presented in diverse media and formats, assessing the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data; develop and refine speaking and listening skills, participating effectively in collaborative discussions and presenting information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly and persuasively; demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, applying this knowledge to understand complex texts and to produce sophisticated writing; analyze foundational works of American literature, examining how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics and how the text draws on and transforms source material; and demonstrate vocabulary knowledge and skills, including the ability to determine or clarify the meaning of unknown words and phrases based on grade 11 reading and content. Course Format This section will help you to understand how your learner’s course is structured in edio. Lesson Components: Each day, your learner will spend approximately 60 minutes completing an English 11 lesson. Some days may take less time, while other days may take a little more time. The lesson does not need to be completed in one sitting. Encourage your learner to take short breaks as they need. Lesson Bundling: In the English 11 course, your learner will engage in lessons, assignments, projects, quizzes, and unit tests. Within some lessons, there are lesson bundles. A lesson bundle is a collection of lessons that stack up to equal one full class period. On some days, learners will see bundles, such as a Knowledge Check and the daily lesson. Within the lesson bundles, there are different components your learner will interact with. These components will not be used every day. 1. Getting Started Lesson: There is one Getting Started lesson in this course. It can be found on Day 1 of Unit 1. This lesson includes important information about the course and contact information for your teacher. 2. Unit Overview: Each unit will include a unit overview. This describes what your learner will learn in the unit and how many assessments the unit will have. 3. Prep for Success: At the beginning of each unit, your learner will find a Prep for Success. This component offers learners tips to be successful in the course, such as study tips, important software information, safety reminders, and more. 4. Knowledge Check: There will be one Knowledge Check in each unit. The Knowledge Check is designed to check prior learning and understanding about key skills and concepts that will be taught in the unit. The Knowledge Check is not a graded assessment. 5. Lesson: English 11 lessons are similar to your learner’s other classes. Each informative lesson includes three parts: Engage, Discover, and Show. Some lessons include an Optional: More to Explore section that provides additional information on that day’s topic. Review the information below to learn what to expect within each of these parts of a lesson. Example of a lesson bundle: Lesson Structure Each lesson has its own components to help guide your learner through the lesson. 1. Lesson Overview: At the beginning of every lesson, your learner will see the lesson overview. This section contains lesson objectives, lesson vocabulary, materials your learner will need for the lesson, and the suggested lesson length. 2. Engage: The first section of the lesson is Engage. In this section, learners will be introduced to the lesson by making a connection to past and present knowledge and will get ready for the lesson’s instruction. 3. Discover: New content and instruction are presented in the Discover section. Your learner will interact with the lesson content through defined vocabulary terms, videos, audio, and Pause and Think activities. Your learner will be able to practice and answer questions as they work through the lesson. 4. Show: Learners will demonstrate what they have learned in the lesson through a series of practice questions. 5. Optional: More to Explore: At the end of some lessons, an Optional: More to Explore activity will appear. This activity will introduce your learner to an extension that includes more information about the day’s lesson topic. Your learner may skip the activity and move directly to the lesson summary. 6. Summary: This section recaps the day’s objectives and prepares learners for a future lesson or assessment. Assessments The course includes assignments and projects. These graded assignments allow your learner to show what they have learned and apply their new skills. All CCA assignments and projects include these components. 1. Assessment Overview: At the beginning of each assessment, your learner will see the assessment overview. This section contains the goals of the assessment, materials your learner will need, the length of the assessment, and directions for completion. 2. Plan: In the Plan section, learners will be introduced to the assignment or project. Learners may be provided with a review of content from previous lessons, strategies for completing the activity, graphic organizers, and grading rubrics. 3. Do: Learners put their plan into action and work to complete the assignment or project successfully. This section also provides the grading expectations and/or rubric the teacher will use to grade the work. 4. Reflect: In Reflect, learners will think back to the work they completed. They will reflect upon the experience and analyze how well they completed the task. These moments of reflection are important and allow learners to think about their learning and their work habits. Course Features The English 11 course is designed to help your learner successfully build upon their foundational skills and deepen their understanding of literature and poetry. Your learner will compose written responses that use text evidence to support their ideas. This course includes and uses unique features such as: English Notebook Texts Projects Assignments Quizzes Tests edioReader Grammar Connection English Notebook: Learners will use their notebook to read texts, take notes, and complete assignments. Your learner will need their notebook every day. Texts: Learners will receive a collection of fiction and nonfiction texts, including informational text, narratives, and poetry. These anchor texts will be used to develop reading, listening, and comprehension skills. Projects: Learners will complete a graded project once per unit. These projects start mid-unit and progress with guided instruction to support learners each step of the way. For example, learners will complete a research paper with step-by-step instructions, including support for planning, editing, and revising before submission. Assignments: Learners will complete assignments in each unit. Assignments contain their own scoring guidelines. Some assignments will relate to a step of developing the project within the unit. Other assignments will be given independent of the unit project. Quizzes: Learners will complete quizzes in each unit. Quizzes are mostly auto-scored, and some contain a short text response. Learners will complete a quiz review prior to completing the quiz. Tests: In unit tests, learners approach texts to apply the skills learned throughout the unit. For example, if the unit involves the skills of analyzing the author’s intent and determining the central idea of a text, the test will present learners with short excerpts of text and a few questions to assess those skills. Learners will complete a test review prior to taking a test. edioReader: Learners can interact with digital texts through edioReader, an eReader application. Embedded directly in the lesson content, edioReader allows learners to read or listen to digital texts. Learners will be able to interact with each text by using features such as a key word search, a zoom function to increase the font size, and the ability to take and store notes, highlight the pages, and bookmark their spot in the text. For long-form texts, your learner will be able to choose to read the paper copy of the book that was sent in the curriculum kit, or they can read the online version in edioReader. Grammar Connection: Some lessons will contain instruction about the application of new grammar concepts that can be found in the nonfiction texts, fiction texts, and poetry the learner reads. Novel and Drama Study: Learners will read both a novel and a play in the course. On a reading day, the edio lesson will include a skill review, specific pages to be read, and walk-throughs of those pages. Learners will complete the reading in small chunks and answer comprehension and analysis questions. Most reading lessons will end with a thought-provoking, open-ended question in the Show section. Part C:Unit Information Viewing History Through Literature Unit Overview In this unit, your learner will be challenged to consider literature’s responsibility to history and its ability to influence social change, focusing on the Civil Rights Movement. Your learner will work on developing analytical reading and writing skills. Your learner will consider the unit question: What is literature’s responsibility to history? Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment __________________ Project ______________________ Exam ________________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions Questions How have historical movements impacted literature over time? How do an author’s tone and word choice affect the meaning of literature or poetry? Unit Notables At the end of this unit, your learner will write a research paper to reflect on how literature has responded to historical struggles and continues to influence perceptions of justice. Kit Materials English Notebook, A Raisin in the Sun, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter Household Materials none Unit Overview In this unit, learners will explore how words can empower individuals and whole movements. As learners work through the unit, they will discover how the right words can make a difference and how to use language to influence the world around them. Your learner will consider the unit question: How can you empower others? Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment __________________ Project ______________________ Exam ________________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions In what ways could you effectively communicate an idea to your family about a change you would like to see? Do you think passive voice and active voice could be used interchangeably? Unit Notables In this unit, your learners will write a speech to persuade an audience. Their reading lessons will teach them about rhetoric and persuasion, which are skills they can apply in their own writing. This connection between the texts and the writing project creates a cohesive learning experience. Kit Materials English Notebook, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter Household Materials none Breaking Free from Disillusionment Unit Overview In this unit, learners will explore how authors use stories and characters to express the tension between hopes and realities. Learners will read and analyze The Great Gatsby to explore how themes of struggle reveal larger social issues. Your learner will consider the unit question: How can disillusionment change your life? Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment __________________ Project ______________________ Exam ________________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions What do you think makes a novel timeless or great? How does The Great Gatsby critique the American Dream? Unit Notables This unit includes a novel study of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the novel study, learners will read a few pages at a time, before pausing and interacting with the text. This structure will give learners a chance to dive deeper into the novel at a slower pace. Kit Materials English Notebook, The Great Gatsby, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter Household Materials none Unit Overview In this unit, learners will explore American literary movements and examine how each influenced the evolution of thought in the United States. They will develop their own narrative inspired by the themes and techniques of the authors they study. Your learner will consider the unit question: How can your perspective change over time? Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment __________________ Project ______________________ Exam ________________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions As you think about the literary movements through American history, which one do you connect with the most? What do you want to learn or read more of? Why? Unit Notables Your learner will explore how perspective can change their feelings about an event. Their narrative writing project asks them to choose an event from their life or write about a fictional event in a character’s life to respond to the unit question. Kit Materials English Notebook, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter Household Materials none
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
