Unit 3
Destiny: the Individual shaped by Heredity and Environment
Essential Questions:
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Is a person's identity limited by birth and experiences of the past?
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Does the world around a person determine identity?
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What force has a greater effect on the creation of identity: nature or nurture?
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How do authors convey the impact of external conflict on internal conflict?
Resources:
- online texts: The Taming of the Shrew & Wuthering Heights
Week of 19 October 2009
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew
- reading and analysis of sonnets
- analysis and outlining of 2008 AP exam poetry prompt
- AP exam multiple-choice practice with sonnets
- 10/22-23/09 Writers Workshop of college-application essays (Common Application topics)
Week of 26 October 2009
- tone vocabulary group 6
- 10/26-27/09 Wuthering Heights chapters 1-10 literary analysis DUE (instructions)
- 10/28-29/09 in-class writing prompt for The Taming of the Shrew DUE: "Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding." (Emerson, "Worship" from The Conduct of Life, 1860)
- 10/30/09 & 11/2/09 peer review of college-application essays (Common Application topics)
Week of 2 November 2009
- tone vocabulary group 7
- 11/3-4/09 The Taming of the Shrew assessments DUE (instructions)
- 11/5-6/09 group sonnet comparison assignment DUE (instructions, Bloom's Taxonomy chart)
Week of 9 November 2009
- 11/9-10/09 Much Ado About Nothing BONUS assignment (instructions)
- 11/9-10/09 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 literary analysis DUE (instructions)
- Wuthering Heights multiple-choice practice
- 11/11-12/09 style and diction practice DUE (instructions, vocabulary list)
- introduction to Song of Solomon (character chart, quotations for discussion, protagonist analysis assignment)
- 11/13 & 16/09 My Losing Season style analysis DUE (excerpt, instructions, What is Style?)
Week of 16 November 2009
- tone vocabulary group 8
- 11/17-18/09 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 literary analysis DUE (instructions)
- discussion of Song of Solomon motifs and chapter 1
- Wuthering Heights multiple-choice practice
- 11/19-20/09 Wuthering Heights in-class essay TEST
Week of 30 November 2009
- 11/30/09 & 12/1/09 Fences Express-Thanks-for-Yet-Another-Bonus-Opportunity Assignment (instructions)
- 11/30/09 & 12/1/09 Wuthering Heights take-home essay DUE
- tone vocabulary group 9
- reading and preparation of notes for Song of Solomon chapters 1-9 discussion
- 12/2-3/09 discussion of Song of Solomon chapters 1-9 DUE (6th period essential questions, 7th period essential questions, quotations for discussion)
- 12/4 & 7/09 college application essays DUE (Common Application topics)
Week of 7 December 2009
- tone vocabulary group 10
- 12/8-9/09 discussion of Song of Solomon chapters 10-15 DUE (quotations for discussion, essential questions for Socratic seminar)
- 2/10-11/09 Song of Solomon in-class essay TEST
Week of 14 December 2009
- 12/14-15/09 Song of Solomon protagonist & motif assignment DUE (instructions)
- W 12/16/09 FINAL EXAMS (3rd, 5th, 7th periods): exam review sheet, take-home poetry prompt, sonnet comparison essay outline samples
- Th 12/17/09 FINAL EXAMS (2nd, 4th, 6th periods): exam review sheet, take-home poetry prompt, sonnet comparison essay outline samples
- F 12/18/09 FINAL EXAMS (1st and 8th periods)