Embedded Files
How we Choose to act
How we Choose to act
Instructional Context
Instructional Context
In this unit, students explore a range of contemporary and classic poems, monologues, and dialogues to refine their understanding of how writers use language for effect. Students learn how to take their understanding of the written word and express meaning through vocal and visual delivery. Students have worked on collaboration skills all year, and in this unit they will collaborate to perform an original monologue as well as selected scenes from the comedy Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
In the first half of the unit, students study a variety of poems and monologues to deepen their understanding of how to use language for effect, to generate ideas for original monologues, and to make the connection between words on paper and oral performance. This work prepares students to write and deliver an original monologue in Embedded Assessment 1, and it sets the foundation for Embedded Assessment 2.
In the second half of the unit, students learn to think like actors and directors as they study Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night. Students continue to refine their vocal delivery and learn the importance of visual delivery, staging, and theatrical elements. Embedded Assessment 2 builds on this learning by asking students to analyze, plan, and deliver a performance of dialogue from Shakespeare’s play.
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