Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
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 Honors 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.
CCA wishes you and your learner a terrific school year!
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.
The Honors English 11 course builds upon the learners’ ability to read and analyze literature written across a variety of time periods, examining 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 strong writers—all preparing learners for advanced academic writing and critical analysis.
In Honors 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:
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 Honors 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 Honors 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: Honors 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.
The Honors 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:
Honors 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. Learners will have the option to extend projects to dive deeper into concepts.
Assignments: Learners will complete assignments in each unit. Assignments will be graded by a rubric or guidelines given within the lesson. Some assignments will relate to a step of developing the project within the unit. Other assignments will be given independent of the unit project. These will often include options for design and submission.
Quizzes: Learners will complete quizzes in each unit. Learners will complete a quiz review prior to completing the quiz. Quizzes are mostly auto-scored, and some contain a short text response.
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.
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 keyword 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 Honors English 11 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.
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
In what ways have you felt societal pressure?
Why are symbols important in helping you understand literature and themes?
Unit Notables
In this unit, learners will find at least four sources to support their evidence in their thesis paper. Encourage your learner to select a variety of sources that will contribute to their understanding of the historical events, including the suggestion of a personal account source.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish Notebook, A Raisin in the Sun, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter
Household Materials
none
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
In what ways have you felt societal pressure?
Why are symbols important in helping you understand literature and themes?
Unit Notables
In this unit, learners will find at least four sources to support their evidence in their thesis paper. Encourage your learner to select a variety of sources that will contribute to their understanding of the historical events, including the suggestion of a personal account source.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish 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?
Explain.
Unit Notables
Your learner will be writing a speech
in this unit. A key part of this is
understanding and using both active voice and passive voice. They will also use one to two examples of rhetorical strategies and appeals in their speech. To help them, continue to build on their understanding of seeing the opposite perspective of their argument. Provide them with opportunities to give you counterclaims and strategies for refuting them.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish Notebook,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?
Explain.
Unit Notables
Your learner will be writing a speech
in this unit. A key part of this is
understanding and using both active voice and passive voice. They will also use one to two examples of rhetorical strategies and appeals in their speech. To help them, continue to build on their understanding of seeing the opposite perspective of their argument. Provide them with opportunities to give you counterclaims and strategies for refuting them.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish Notebook,sticky notes, pencil, highlighter
Household Materials
none
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
Why do you think an author might choose to question or critique the idea of the American Dream in a novel?
What kinds of characters or situations do you expect to see if a book challenges that idea?
Unit Notables
Your learner will complete a
Character Analysis assignment.
Support your learner during this
assignment by asking them to
discuss the characteristics of each
of the characters. Your learner will also explore the evolution of character development and its effect on the theme of the story.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish Notebook, The Great Gatsby, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter
Household Materials
none
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
Why do you think an author might choose to question or critique the idea of the American Dream in a novel?
What kinds of characters or situations do you expect to see if a book challenges that idea?
Unit Notables
Your learner will complete a
Character Analysis assignment.
Support your learner during this
assignment by asking them to
discuss the characteristics of each
of the characters. Your learner will also explore the evolution of character development and its effect on the theme of the story.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish 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 we get ready to study different literary movements in American history, what are you most curious to learn about the way people wrote or what they wrote about during different time periods? Why?
Why do you think people’s writing styles and topics might have changed over time in America?
Unit Notables
Your learner will complete a narrative writing project that includes at least two literary elements in their work. Support your learner by reviewing narrative elements. You might ask your learner to find literary elements in the sample works that they read.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish Notebook, 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 we get ready to study different literary movements in American history, what are you most curious to learn about the way people wrote or what they wrote about during different time periods? Why?
Why do you think people’s writing styles and topics might have changed over time in America?
Unit Notables
Your learner will complete a narrative writing project that includes at least two literary elements in their work. Support your learner by reviewing narrative elements. You might ask your learner to find literary elements in the sample works that they read.
Kit Materials
HonorsEnglish Notebook, sticky notes, pencil, highlighter
Household Materials
none
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
