Unit 3

Relationships: Torments and Triumphs of Love

• Esssential Questions:

  Why do human bonds bring both pleasure and pain?  How do authors portray the complex nature of relationships?  What are the boundaries of love and sacrifice, and where does one draw the line between them?

• Resources and texts: "The Nun's Priest's Tale", "The Knight's Tale", "The Wife of Bath's Tale", Othello, Relationship Unit poems

Week of 4 January 2010

• writing and reading portfolio
• My Semester in Review (instructions)
• composing spring semester resolutions (instructions)
• vocabulary lesson 9
• reading and analysis General Prologue from The Canterbury Tales (Chivalric Code, comparison chart)

Week of 11 January 2010

• reading and analysis marriage tales ["The Knight's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Tale," "The Nun's Priest's Tale"] from The Canterbury Tales (Chivalric Code, comparison chart)
• vocabulary lesson 10
• explanation of Poetry Out Loud explication and recitation assignment (instructions, POL website)

Week of 18 January 2010

• 01/20-21/10 Work Ready Test (Georgia Work Ready website)
• 01/20-21/10 vocabulary lessons 9 & 10 QUIZ
• 01/22 & 25/10 Work Ready Test (Georgia Work Ready website)

Week of 25 January 2010

• vocabulary lesson 11
• 01/26-27/09 comparison of marriage tales from The Canterbury Tales DUE (comparison chart)
• viewing and discussion of animated Canterbury Tales marriage tales
• reading and analysis of sonnets
• theme statement workshop (What Is Theme, How To Write a Theme Statement)
• 01/28-29/10 sonnet theme statement DUE (What Is Theme, How To Write a Theme Statement)
• work on Poetry Out Loud explication and recitation assignment (instructions, POL website)

Week of 1 February 2010

• vocabulary lesson 12
• 02/01-02/10 Poetry Out Loud poem theme statement DUE (What Is Theme, How To Write a Theme Statement)
• work on Poetry Out Loud explication and recitation assignment (instructions, POL website, How to Explicate a Poem, tone chart, Lofton sample, Mahmud sample, Papallo sample)
• 02/03-04/10 Poetry Out Loud recitations DUE (instructions, POL website)
• reading and analysis of pastoral poetry (poems, analysis chart, pastoral elements)
• discussion of pastoral poetry imitation assignment (instructions)

Week of 8  February 2010

• work on Poetry Out Loud explication and recitation assignment (instructions, POL website, How to Explicate a Poem, tone chart, Lofton sample, Mahmud sample, Papallo sample)
• 02/09-10/09 vocabulary lessons 11 & 12 QUIZ
• 02/10/10 Poetry Out Loud school competition 
• 02/10-11/09 Poetry Out Loud expilcations DUE (instructions, POL website, How to Explicate a Poem, tone chart, Lofton sample, Mahmud sample, Papallo sample)
• 02/11-12/10 pastoral poetry analysis DUE (analysis chart, pastoral elements)
• work on pastoral poetry imitation assignment (instructions)

Week of 22  February 2010

• 02/22/10 Vocabualry Workshop lesson 13 partner activity DUE at end of class (instructions)
• work on pastoral poetry imitation assignment (instructions, online rhyming dictionary, Echols sample, Harris sample, Jones sample, Lee sample, Moseley sample, Wood sample)
• introduction to Othello (background on the Moors, character map, literary terminology, literary context, Othello online text, significant quotations) 
• viewing and reading of Othello (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• 02/26/10 pastoral poetry imitation draft DUE (instructions, self-analysis of draft, online rhyming dictionary, Echols sample, Harris sample, Jones sample, Lee sample, Moseley sample, Wood sample)

Week of 1 March 2010

• 03/01/10 pastoral poetry imitation draft DUE (instructions, self-analysis of draft, online rhyming dictionary, Echols sample, Harris sample, Jones sample, Lee sample, Moseley sample, Wood sample)
• Vocabualry Workshop lesson 14
• writers' workshop of pastoral poetry imitation drafts (instructions, online rhyming dictionary, Echols sample, Harris sample, Jones sample, Lee sample, Moseley sample, Wood sample)
• viewing and reading of Othello (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• 03/04-05/10 Othello Act 1 quotation analysis DUE (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)

Week of 8 March 2010

• 03/08-09/10 peer review (speed-dating style) of pastoral poetry imitation assignment DUE (peer review instructions, peer review chart)
• 03/10-11/09 pastoral poetry imitation assignment DUE (instructions, online rhyming dictionary)
• 03/10-11/10 Othello Act 2 quotation analysis DUE (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• viewing and reading of Othello (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• 03/12 & 15/09 vocabulary lessons 13 & 14 QUIZ
• 03/12 & 15/09 reading and analysis of "Marriage is a Private Affair" DUE(questions)

Week of 15 March 2010

• Vocabualry Workshop lesson 15
• viewing and reading of Othello (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• 03/18 & 22/10 Othello Act 3 quotation analysis DUE (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• reading and analysis of Carpe Diem poems & "When I Was One-and-Twenty" (Carpe Diem PPT, "To the Virgins" poem, "When I Was One-and-Twenty" questions") 

Week of 22 March 2010

• Vocabualry Workshop lesson 16
• 03/23/10 after-school review session for Unit 3 (midterm) TEST (review sheet, literary terms flashcards)
• 03/23-25/10 Othello Act 4 & 5 quotation analysis DUE (online text, character map, synopsis, literary terminology, motifs, significant quotations)
• review and preparation for Unit 3 (midterm) TEST (review sheet, literary terms flashcards, Relationship Unit poems) 

Week of 29 March 2010 

• 03/29-30/10 Unit 3 (midterm) TEST: multiple-choice section (review sheet, literary terms flashcards, Relationship Unit poems)
• 03/30/10 after-school workshop for Unit 3 (midterm) TEST writing section (topic, rubric, Relationship Unit poems)
• 03/31/10 & 04/01/10 Unit 3 (midterm) TEST: writing section (review sheet, Relationship Unit poems, topic, rubric)