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)
- Pygmalion
- The Taming of the Shrew
Week of 9 August
- introduction to Emma (analysis assignment)
- tone vocabulary group 2
Week of 16 August
- tone vocabulary group 3
- 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)
- reading and discussion of Pygmalion Act 1
- 8/19-20/10 poetry response 1 DUE (poetry packet, poems for printing, instructions)
Week of 23 August
- reading and discussion of Pygmalion Act 1
- 8/24-25/10 colors personality personal narrative draft 2 DUE & peer review (instructions)
- tone vocabulary group 4
- 8/24-25/10 Emma chapters 1-14 DUE (analysis assignment)
- discussion of Emma chapters 1-14
- discussion of returned summer reading free-response essays; revision assigned (rubric for timed AP essays)
- reading and discussion of Pygmalion Acts 2 & 3
- 8/26-27/10 vocabulary 1-4 QUIZ
- 8/26-27/10 colors personality personal narrative final draft DUE (instructions, rubric)
Week of 30 August
- tone vocabulary group 5
- reading and discussion of Pygmalion Acts 4 & 5
- 9/1-2/10 Emma chapters 15-28 DUE (analysis assignment)
- 9/2-3/10 poetry response 2 DUE (poetry packet, poems for printing, instructions)
Week of 6 September
- tone vocabulary group 6
- 9/9-10/10 Emma chapters 29-42 DUE (analysis assignment)
- work on Pygmalion assessment (project options)
- introduction to The Taming of the Shrew (characters; Elizabethan theater conventions; literary terminology; thematic concepts)
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew induction
Week of 13 September
- reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew induction
- discussion of persuasive writing strategies
- 9/15-16/10 vocabulary 1-6 QUIZ (tone vocabulary)
- 9/15-16/10 timed-writing essay: SAT prompt
Week of 20 September
- 9/20-21/10 Emma chapters 43-55 DUE (analysis assignment)
- tone vocabulary group 7
- viewing and discussion of The Taming of the Shrew Acts 1-3
- work on Pygmalion assessment (project options)
- 9/23-24/10 poetry response 3 DUE (poetry packet, poems for printing, instructions)
Week of 26 September
- 9/26-27/10 Pygmalion assessment DUE (project options)
- viewing and discussion of The Taming of the Shrew Acts 4 & 5
- discussion of assessment options for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
- discussion of fall break bonus assignment (instructions & rubric, AP Exam open prompts, sample analysis with commentary)
Week of 11 October
- independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
- tone vocabulary group 8
- 10/13-14/10 fall break bonus assignment DUE (instructions & rubric, AP Exam open prompts, sample analysis with commentary)
- introduction to Wuthering Heights (character chart, reading & diction log assignment)
- workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question
Week of 18 October
- workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question
- 10/19-20/10 essays for Unit 1 DUE: two in-class, one take-home (instructions & prompts)
- 10/21-22/10 assessment for The Taming of the Shrew DUE (instructions)
- vocabulary review game: Taboo (instructions)