Unit 3: Heroes vs Villains

Unit 3: Heroes vs Villains

In this unit, students will explore drama and poetry, analyzing them through dialogue, play scenes, or through words that are critical to the development of the story or message. They will identify and understand connotation, tone, theme, different poetic structures and devices, and create original poems using the forms and structures that most fit with their unique voices and sense of identity. Students will also analyze the use of flashback and how it develops suspense in the reader or listener. Finally, students will choose a genre that they prefer and defend their choice, strengthening their skills at writing arguments. Additionally, students should record their reading for the 25 Book Standards.

STANDARDS

Reading: Literature

ELACC8RL3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

ELACC8RL6: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

ELACC8RL7: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.

Writing: Argumentative

ELACC8W1: Critique and write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence

ELACC8W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

Speaking and Listening: Comprehension and Collaboration

ELACC8SL3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

ELACC8SL4: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

ELACC8L3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. Use verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood to achieve particular effects (e.g., emphasizing the actor or the action; Expressing uncertainty or describing a state contrary to fact).

ELACC8L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meaning.

ELACC8L5 (a): Interpret figures of speech (e.g., verbal irony, puns) in context.

ELACC8L5 (b): Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.

CONTENT: What students should know at the end of this unit?

READING:

· Cite the textual evidence explicitly as well as inferences drawn from text; text structures such as in-text citations

· Archetypes: Hero and The Hero’s Journey

· Inquiries to conduct short research projects

· Themes of literary works

· Examples of allusion/allegory to foundational texts

· Graphic organizers to illustrate connections and distinctions (such as Venn diagrams)

WRITING:

· Construction and Citation of research projects to answer a question

· The Tone and Mood created by Passive Voice, its strengths and weaknesses as a stylistic tool

Multimedia and Visual Displays into presentations

SKILLS: What students should be able to do at the end of this unit?

READING:

· Cite appropriately and avoid plagiarism

· Use a variety of sources to conduct research projects and work to construct background knowledge of major foundational works

· Analyze and make connections between and among individuals including heroes and the hero’s journey

· Use a variety of print and digital resources to conduct research

· Acquire or review basic knowledge of literary periods and major works to determine theme

· Analyze texts of the same topic for conflicting information

· Determine how these texts disagree on fact and interpretation

· Apply the concepts of allusion and allegory

· Clarify understanding with use of graphic organization tools

KEY WORDS/ESSENTIAL UNIT VOCABULARY: Antagonist, Author’s Purpose, Climax, Characterization, Character Conflicts: Character vs. Nature, Character vs. Society, Complications, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Dialogue, Figurative Language, Flashback, Graphic Aids, Historical Fiction, Inference, Internal / External Conflict, Main Idea, Mood, Narrative, Memoir, Organizational, Structure, Patterns of Events, Plot, Point of View, First Person, Narration, Third Person, Narration, Preconceived Notions, Problem, Solution, Protagonist, Resolution, Sensory Details, Sequential, Setting, Split Dialogue, Subplot, Summarize, Supporting Details, Text Features, Theme, Note-taking, Allusion and Allegory Text

POETRY VS PROSE "Poetry Defined"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDo1_71aJ0o