Unit 2
Quest for Identity: the Individual defined in Society
Essential Questions:
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Is identity innate or created?
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How does an individual transcend society’s expectations?
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How does social class affect a person’s identity?
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How do authors effectively express a character’s internal conflict?
Resources:
- online texts: Emma (character genealogy), Mayor of Casterbridge, A Tale of Two Cities, Pygmalion, The Taming of the Shrew
Week of 17 August 2009
- tone vocabulary group 2
- thesis statement writing (AP exam thesis MadLibs)
- writers' workshop: colors personality personal narrative drafts (rubric)
- revision workshop: summer reading free-response essays
- Pygmalion introduction (first impressions visual activity, language & appearances pre-reading, Susan Boyle video clip & makeover article from Huffington Post, myth background, character list, Comedic Ladder)
- introduction to Socratic seminar (basic instructions, organizer, rubric)
- reading and analysis of Pygmalion Act 1
Week of 24 August 2009
- discussion of Pygmalion literary responses(assignment instructions); reading and analysis of Acts 2 & 3
- 8/25-26/09 summer reading free-response revisions DUE
- 8/25-26/09 Socratic seminar: summer reading novels (basic instructions, organizer, rubric)
- theme statement writing: summer reading novels (notes, format)
- small-group discussion of classic novel (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)
Week of 31 August 2009
- 8/31/09 & 9/01/09 classic novel analysis DUE (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)
- 8/31/09 & 9/01/09 QUIZ: tone vocabulary groups 1 & 2 (QUIA review games)
- reading and analysis of Pygmalion Acts 3 & 4
- peer review: colors personality personal narrative drafts (rubric)
Week of 7 September 2009
- reading and analysis of Pygmalion Acts 5
- tone vocabulary group 3
- small-group discussion of classic novel (discussion topics; Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)
- introduction to The Taming of the Shrew (characters; Elizabethan theater conventions; literary terminology; thematic concepts; assessment activities instructions)
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew induction
- 9/11 & 14/09 Pygmalion literary responses DUE (assignment instructions)
Week of 14 September 2009
- writing portfolio set-up and reflection on returned summer reading in-class essays
- in-class writing prompt for Pygmalion: "People can become--or, indeed, are--what others think they are or treat them as being." (H. J. Oliver)
- 9/15-16/09 classic novel analysis DUE (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)
- tone vocabulary group 4
- AP exam multiple-choice practice
- discussion of The Taming of the Shrew assessments (instructions)
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew
- 9/17-18/09 colors personality personal narrative drafts DUE (rubric)
Week of 21 September 2009
- discussion of college application essays (Common Application topics)
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew
- lesson on evidence and quotations in analysis (evidence triangle, integrating quotations)
- small-group discussion of classic novel (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)
- 9/25 & 28/09 classic novel analysis DUE (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)
Week of 28 September 2009
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew
- 9/29-30/09 TEST: in-class essays on Pygmalion and literature circle novel
Week of 12 October 2009
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew
- 10/13-14/09 Misanthrope fall break BONUS assignment DUE (instructions; online text)
- introduction to sonnet form
- introduction to Wuthering Heights (character chart, doubles in the novel, literary analysis assignment)
- 10/15-16/09 Pygmalion take-home essays DUE
- tone vocabulary group 5
- drafting of college-application essays (Common Application topics)