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English 3-4 (World Literature)
September
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Assessment English 3-4: World Literature
Essential Questions: Why read
literature? What makes a story interesting? What is “World Literature” (Weltliteratur)?
Students will know…
The different forms of literature (Fiction, Poetry, Plays, Nonfiction)
Key Literary Terms (Protagonist, Antagonist, Symbolism, Metaphor)
The common themes are found in literature worldwide
The elements of a short story/novel (conflict, character, theme, point of view, setting, pattern of action)
Analysis of literature begins with identifying elements of a story and pulling apart those elements.
Compare/Contrast is a form of analysis.
Texts: Summer Reading Books
Writing
(Clarity) #1 To tighten wordy sentences, #2 Active verbs (p. 2-5)
(Grammar) #10 To make subjects & verbs agree (p. 21-25)
(Punctuation) #17 To use the Comma properly (p. 58)
Students will be able to…
Summarize a story or event succinctly and accurately
Read a piece of work critically (analytically) and identify its plot elements
Analyze a piece of literature and correctly identify its themes
Take notes from a lecture using the Cornell Method of Note-Taking
Write a paragraph using a topic sentence, elaboration sentences, & illustrations
Performance Tasks:
Paragraph-length summary of an event
Break down a short story to identify the elements of literature in a concept map (theme, character, plot, structure, setting, point of view, language & style, irony)
They Say, I Say Essay: How are Slam and She went By Gently similar? different? (Formative)
Quizzes on literary terms
Quiz onSubject-Verb Agreement
Quiz on Comma Usage
Quiz on “She Went Gently By”
Content
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Assessment The Literature of Latin America
Magical Realism Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a
Death Foretold (1982)
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Point of View: Journalistic Fiction
The elements of a mystery
Analysis of literature begins with identifying elements of a story and pulling apart those elements.
Themes in Literature: "Sex, Power. Death. The rest are just sub-classifications."
The role of Symbolism & Imagery in a novel
A culture of machismo & "Honor"
in a Colombian town in the early 1900s.
Class & Power.
Fate & Inevitability.
Gender Roles & Sexual Hypocrisy.
How an apparently obvious set of events can possess deep, disturbing truths.
Mechanics, Punctuation, Grammar
The types of sentences in a complete paragraph
Argumentation
The MLA format of essays
The Apostrophe (possessives and
contractions)
The Literature of Asia Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress (2000)
Students will know…
the philosophy, values, &
workings of Communism and
Capitalism
China's Cultural Revolution
Chairman Mao Zedong
How do Communism, Socialism
& Capitalism differ?
Students will be able to…
Summarize a story or event succinctly and accurately
Read a piece of work critically (analytically) and identify its plot elements
Annotate a text
Analyze a piece of literature by studying its elements individually.
Analyze a piece of literature by discovering & discussing its themes
Take notes from a lecture
Compose paragraphs using a topic sentence, context, evidence, commentary, and conclusion sentences
Develop a thesis (response) to literature and support it with facts from Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Support an assertion with evidence
Write an essay using the MLA format
Mechanics, Punctuation, Grammar
Compose paragraphs following
the "Topic Sentence-Context-
Evidence-Commentary-
Concluding Sentence" format
Use the MLA format for essays
and compositions
Use the apostrophe appropriately
Students will be able to…
Explain the differences between
communism, socialism, &
capitalism.
Explain the structure of the social
pyramid: elites, bourgeoisie,
proletariat
Explain what a revolution is.
Performance Tasks
Personal Response Journals--
paragraph-length responses to
chapters of Chronicle of a Death
Foretold following paragraph
format (topic sentence, context, evidence, commentary, and conclusion sentences)
In-Class Free-Response Analysis
Essay
Major Essay #1: What is the key message Gabriel Garcia Marquez is communicating in his novel?
Mechanics, Punctuation, Grammar
Quizzes (fact-based) on the novel
Quizzes on the apostrophe
(possessives and contractions)
Classroom Discussions
A Graphic Organizer depicting
the characteristics of a socialist
society and a capitalist society
Personal Response Journal
paragraphs
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What does it mean to be
"bourgeois" and "reactionary" in
Mao's revolutionary China?
The Study of Literature
What is a "Canon of Literature"?
The Western Canon
The World Canon
October
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Assessment Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Unit Questions
1. How do we establish a balance between individual human freedom
and collective security and welfare?
2. What are the consequences of (political/economic/social/religious)
revolution? 3. What are the different advantages
and disadvantages of living in a liberal
Western state and in a socialist/communist state?
4. When is education liberating, and when is it repressive?
5. What is a "Canon of Literature?"
Brief history of the People’s
Republic of China & Mao
Zedong’s Cultural Revolution
The differences between capitalism and
socialism/communism,
democracy and communism
Key political & cultural
terminology: Western cultural values, bourgeois, proletariat, re-education, propaganda.
The Western Canon (including
Honore Balzac & others) & the
World Canon.
Identify and interpret an
author’s and a character’s Point of View.
Understand and explain literary
Summarize clearly in paragraph
form (using the Topic-Context-
Evidence-Commentary Paragraph
format) Dai Sijie’s opinion about
the impact Mao Zedong’s
revolution had on China.
Summarize in a 100-word
paragraph the Chinese
Revolution 1949-1976.
Read a history text to understand
the historical background of a
novel.
Analyze in classroom discussions
Balzac & the Little Chinese
Seamstress to discern the
author’s purpose and the author’s
message. Develop an argument
(thesis) in a formal composition
with supporting evidence in a 4-5
paragraph essay.
Create a concept map/graphic
organizer
Summative
Summaries of others' ideas in
paragraph-length compositions
Analytical essay based on the
novel's themes and its historical
context.
Structured classroom discussions
Free-Response Essay Exam
Quizzes
Other Evidence (Formative)
Informal Class Discussions
Graphic Organizers (Venn
diagrams, concept maps)
Notebooks
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Assessment techniques of IRONY and
SYMBOLISM.
Elements of a romantic love
story and of a Realist novel.
World literature: Origin Stories & Sacred Texts
Essential Questions:
How have humans sough to understand the meaning of their existence?
What has been gained advantages by the written word?
What is lost when oral traditions are written down?
What does it mean that some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations?
Understandings:
Origin Stories reflect ancient peoples’ attempts to explain the origin and purpose of human existence.
Every civilization, every people, has its own origin stories which reflect their understanding of its place in the universe.
Some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations.
The written word has provided humans with a record of its story, its values, its fears, and its aspirations.
The Library is the repository of a culture. Example: Nineveh’s Library.
The Bible is valuable as literature, as historical source, and as sacred text.
Students will know…
Selected Origin Stories from around the
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Assessment world: Popol Vuh (Maya), The Bible: Genesis 1-3 (Creation and the Fall), Genesis 6-11; Ancient Literary Antecedents: Epic of Gilgamesh (the Flood Story)
Sacred Texts: Confucius, The Analects; The Vedas of the Hindus: The Rig Veda; The Buddha; The Koran; Hebrew Scriptures, The New Testament..
Modernization—TV, film, electronic media, internet-- has led to a homogenization of the world’s stories.
Periodization in Literature: Ancient, Medieval, European Renaissance & Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Magical Realism
The Mystery of the World: Sacred Texts & Origin Stories
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Assessment World Literature: Origin Stories & Sacred
Texts
Essential Questions:
How have humans sough to understand the meaning of their existence?
What has been gained advantages by the written word?
What is lost when oral traditions are written down?
What does it mean that some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations?
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Assessment Understandings:
Origin Stories reflect ancient peoples’ attempts to explain the origin and purpose of human existence.
Every civilization, every people, has its own origin stories which reflect their understanding of its place in the universe.
Some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations.
The written word has provided humans with a record of its story, its values, its fears, and its aspirations.
The Library is the repository of a culture. Example: Nineveh’s Library.
The Bible is valuable as literature, as historical source, and as sacred text.
Students will know…
Selected Origin Stories from around the world: Popol Vuh (Maya), The Bible: Genesis 1-3 (Creation and the Fall), Genesis 6-11; Ancient Literary Antecedents: Epic of Gilgamesh (the Flood Story)
Sacred Texts: Confucius, The Analects; The Vedas of the Hindus: The Rig Veda; The Buddha; The Koran; Hebrew Scriptures, The New Testament..
Modernization—TV, film, electronic media, internet-- has led to a homogenization of the world’s stories.
Periodization in Literature: Ancient, Medieval, European Renaissance & Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Magical Realism
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The Mystery of the World: Sacred Texts & Origin Stories
November
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Assessment Nationalism, Just War, and Terrorism:
Israel & Palestine
Essential Questions:
What is the fairest solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?Is terrorism ever justifiable?Is there such a thing as a “just war”?
Understandings:
Nationalism
The Zionist movement
War has deep, sometimes devastating consequences for combatants and civilians, especially refugees
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
“History presents facts, while fiction can present truth.”
Historical fiction can communicate truths that address broad issues as well as personal ones
Memoirs (nonfiction) provide insights by focusing on the experiences of “average” individuals.
Political conflicts like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict share common causes,
Students will be able to…
Summarize opposing viewpoints and present a convincing argument for either side of the argument.
Analyze a novel’s character using the both the story’s plot and historical facts.
Analyze issues using the PERSIAN approach (Political-Economic-Religious-Social-Intellectual-Artistic)
Write notes summarizing information accurately
Draw a concept map depicting an issue
Write an argumentative essay using literary and historical evidence
Performance Tasks:
An argumentative Essay—taking one side
of three positions on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
Character analysis essay
Concept Maps/Graphic Organizers
depicting the two sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Essay exams on Dawn and Tasting the Sky
Other Evidence:
Reading Comprehension Quizzes
Vocabulary Quizzes
Punctuation Quizzes
Cornell Method of Note-Taking
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Assessment common responses and follow similar patterns.
Students will know…
The history of the birth of Israel and the ensuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Zionism
The Palestinian Diaspora & Arab Nationalism
Political conflicts like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict share common causes, common responses and follow similar patterns.
Fiction can effectively communicate “truth,” sometimes more effectively than history/nonfiction
How a memoir differs from an autobiography
Character analysis
Vocabulary
Punctuation
Reading Guides
December
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Assessment The Importance of Homer: The Iliad
and The Odyssey
Essential Questions: Who was Homer? Why is Homer considered one of the most important writers in the history of the world? Why do teachers of Classics believe “A formal education is impossible without reference to Homer’s work”?
Students will be able to…
Recall key facts in Homer’s works and Homer’s importance to literature
Identify elements of a story’s plot
Identify major themes (in Homer’s
Performance Tasks:
Character Analysis essay: comparing Homer’s characters to other characters in literature
Analysis: identifying parallel plot lines in other great works of literature using
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Understandings:
Iliad & Odyssey are the most influential stories in Western Literature
“A formal education is impossible without reference to Homer’s work.”
The ancient city of Troy existed. The Iliad is a story rooted in at least some historical fact.
Students will know…
The “Biography” of Homer: the tradition of the Bard
Iliad & Odyssey’s legacy in Western Literature: importance to history & literature
Epic poetry as a literary form
Geography of Greece, Asia Minor, & the eastern Mediterranean
The story of the creation of Iliad and Odyssey
Basic plots of Iliad & Odyssey
Key characters in the Iliad: Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, Paris, Helen, Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite
Key characters in the Odyssey: Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope, Athena, Poseidon, Zeus
Themes in the Iliad: Glory of War, Impermanence of Human Life
Themes in the Odyssey: Cunning over Strength, the Danger of Temptation
works)
Explain key characters and their importance to the plot
plot-line maps
Unit exam on the themes, motifs, symbols, and characters in the Iliad & Odyssey
Other Evidence:
Concept Maps of themes & plot lines of Iliad and Odyssey
Fact-Based Quizzes
Classroom discussions/reflection
Preparatory work for Essay (notes, outline, rough draft)
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January
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Assessment Ancient Rome & Shakespeare’s Julius
Caesar
Essential Questions: How does Shakespeare develop his tragic heroic protagonist? How does tragic flaw lead to the character's demise? What are the differences between a productive and an unproductive epiphany? When is ambition a virtue? When is it a vice? How are trust and betrayal key components in an ambitious person’s quest for power?
Understandings:
“A man cannot become a hero until he sees the roots of his own downfall.” –Artisotle
The importance of William Shakespeare to Western and World literature cannot be overstated.
A tragic hero is a character (protagonist) who falls from great height; a flaw in the character of the protagonist brings the protagonist to ruin
Politics (of Ancient Rome) are a mirror for contemporary readers to see their own government’s political power struggles
Shakespeare was a genius.
Shakespeare’s tragedies follow a
Students will be able to…
Read and interpret the language of Shakespeare
Analyze a key character in Julius Caesar
Identify and explain main themes
Identify, explain, and interpret key symbols and motifs
Draw connections between political ambition as portrayed in Julius Caesar and as occurs in our world today
Identify an example of a tragic hero in history using Shakespeare’s tragic hero model as a template
Performance Tasks
Analysis exam (free-write) on characters,
themes, motifs, and symbols in Julius
Caesar
Write an analytical essay about an
actual “tragic hero” in history following Shakespeare’s template
Student visual & oral presentations on famous examples of ambition, rhetoric, power, fate & free will—and the results of those qualities
Other Evidence:
Fact-based quizzes on Ancient Roman
history; on plot and characters of Julius
Caesar; on William Shakespeare; on
Virgil, Cicero, Pliny the Younger
Formative assignments: plot lines,
graphic organizer for characters’
relationships
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Assessment pattern that include key elements
Ancient Rome’s intellectual contributions have informed Western literature, philosophy, & politics for 2,000 years
Students will know…
Biography and importance of William Shakespeare
Background information to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Stages of Shakespeare’s “tragic hero”
The major themes found in Julius Caesar— Fate versus Free Will, Public Self vs Private Self, Misinterpretations & Misreadings, Inflexibility vs Compromise
Importance of analyzing key characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Political Problems of the Roman Republic ca 60-44 BCE
Politics of Ancient Rome served as a metaphor for Shakespeare to highlight Elizabethan England’s own challenges of kingship
The importance of Cicero and Virgil (The Aeneid)
Pliny the Younger, The Eruption of Vesuvius
The cultural and imperial dominance of Ancient Rome (“Pompeii: The Key to Roman Life,” from Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History)
Formative: in-class discussions
Formative: Spoken group performances of excerpts of Julius Caesar
February
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Assessment Overview of Literary Epochs & Classic
Works
Essential Questions: How can each literary era be seen as a reaction to its immediate preceding era? What makes a literary work endure as a classic How does history affect literature? What is the rhetorical effect of satire? Why is the term “Gothic” associated with Romanticism? What makes a work “Realist?” What social & industrial changes inspired the advent of Modernism?
Understandings:
Literary works are categorized as belonging to particular historical eras
The times affect literature, and literature reflects the times.
The world’s great works reflect groundbreaking approaches to literature as well as reveal eternal truths
Students will know…
The European Dark Ages (476-1350) & Song of Roland, Chretien de Troyes - The Grail, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Renaissance (1350–1650): Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, The Inferno, Petrarch, Laura, Cervantes, Don Quixote
Rationalism & the Age of Enlightenment, 1700-1800: John Milton, Paradise Los, Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal (satire)
The Romantic Era, 1790-1850
Sounds of Poetry: Alliteration, Assonance,
Students will be able to…
Identify elements of poetry-- Alliteration, Assonance, Rhythm, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia
Explain the various literary eras in Western and Modern world Literature.
Identify the key major works of World Literature and explain why they are considered classics.
Taking notes (lecture and reading) following the Cornell Method
Performance Tasks:
Collage Encapsulating the Themes, Symbolism, Imagery, and Motifs in All Quiet on the western Front
Short Free-response quizzes
Free-response essay examination
Creation of an original poem using poetic techniques
Other Evidence:
Quizzes
Cornell Method Notes
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Assessment Rhythm, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia
Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven, Annabel Lee
Realism, 1850-1914
The Short Story Form & Character Development: Anton Chekov, “Vanka,” Fyodor Dostyevsky, “The Mysterious Visitor,” from The Brothers Karamazov,
Modernism, 1914-1945
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Modernism & All Quiet on the Western Front
Essential Questions:
What is Modernism?
What characterizes Modernist literature?
What forces created Modernism?
Why was World War I so different from all wars that came before it? How did those factors contribute to the rise of Modernism?
How is All Quiet on the Western Front representative of Modernist literature?
Understandings:
Modernism was a distinct change in thought, behavior, and cultural production beginning sometime in the late nineteenth century and coming to full fruition sometime around the World War II, characterized by the reexamination of existence from every possible angle.
A broad literary & cultural movement that spanned all of the arts & spilled into politics and philosophy. Its roots are in the rapidly changing technology of the late nineteenth century and in the theories of such late nineteenth-century
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Students will be able to…
Identify and analyze elements of modernist literature, poetry, art.
Compose analytical essays in-class
Develop a position and compose a written argument
Apply (Transfer) principles of Modernism to identify and evaluate how those elements are manifested in different art forms.
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Performance Tasks:
Collage: Themes, Symbols, Imagery, Motifs of All Quiet on the Western Front
Analytical compositions (in-class)
Argumentative Essay (in-class)
Compose original free-verse poetry
A Concept Map for Modernism
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The movement’s concerns were with the accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness. The movement’s concerns were with the accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness.
Open form and free verse are distinguishing characteristics of modernist poetry.
“The Jazz Age” (1918-1929) an especially productive period of modernist literature immortalized by Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, which describes the decadence and sexual freedom of the post-World War I generation.
Students will know…
Modernism (1890–1945): the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War I period.
“The Lost Generation”--coined by Gertrude Stein--refers to those artists of the 1920s who had become disillusioned with America and lived as ex-patriates in Europe.
The Roots of Modernism—a reaction against Realism and a reflection of the rapid changes in modern society. Freud, Marx, Nietszche, Einstein.
Modernist Art: new types of paints and other materials, in expressing feelings and ideas, in creating abstractions and fantasies, rather than representing what is real.
Elements of Modernist Literature: radical experiments with form: poets like Pound and Eliot working in free verse, & novelists like Joyce, Woolf, & Stein experimenting with stream of consciousness & elaborate language games; Open form & free verse poetry.
Major Modernist Writers & Poets: T. S. Elliot (The Waste Land), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce (Finnegan’s Wake, Ulysses).
The experiences of soldiers on the Western Front of WWI by reading & studying Erich
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Assessment Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front