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How does literature reflect culture and society?
How does literature reflect culture and society?
Why this unit and assessment?
Why this unit and assessment?
This quarter will provide students a common experience around a classic text: Romeo & Juliet. Students will get to apply their reading skills to a more archaic form of literature and write a literary analysis essay on this famous work. It will also provide the opportunity explore addition genres like poetry, drama, and film adaptation. Students will begin this unit by studying a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets and learning about his influence on the world of drama, literature, and pop culture. Once students become more acclimated to Shakespearian language, they will study Romeo and Juliet through close readings, discussions, in-class performances, and film viewings.
Why this time of year?
Why this time of year?
In this final quarter of the curriculum, we will be circling back to quarter 1 and 2 skills and applying them to more challenging texts. Students have already practiced determining the theme short stories and contemporary texts. Now, they will be asked to analyze the theme of a more complex classic piece of literature. At the end of the unit, students will write a literary analysis essay, using the writing methods and skills that they have been developing throughout the school year.
Unit 4 Reading Standards
Unit 4 Reading Standards
Understand the literary definition of theme
Differentiate between topic and thematic statement.
Identify examples and non-examples of thematic statements.
Determine theme/central idea
Construct a thematic statement that explains what the work says about a topic.
Analyze development of theme
Explain how the author conveys the theme through characters, plot, setting, etc.
Cite multiple examples from all parts of the text that support how the theme is developed over the course of the story.
Provide objective summary of text
Include key details about characters, setting, plot, etc.
Include inferences about why or how events happen based on concrete detail.
Unit 4 Writing Standards
Unit 4 Writing Standards
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Introduce precise claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among claims, evidence, and reasons.
Develop claims fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns.
Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion.
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
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