Unit 2 

Quest for Identity: the Individual defined in Society

Essential Questions:

• Is identity innate or created?

• How does an individual transcend society’s expectations?

• How does social class affect a person’s identity?

• 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)