Freshman+English+Units+of+Study

= = = Course Essential Questions =


 * 1) What defines good literature?
 * 2) What qualities define an epic hero? What constitutes the epic heroic journey?
 * 3) How can the concept of the epic journey be applied to our life experience?
 * 4) How are loyalty, prejudice, oppression and love examined in a variety of literary genres?
 * 5) Why is it important to consider the consequences of our choices?
 * 6) How do the themes in the literature of any era help us to understand ourselves and to interpret our world?

= Units of Instruction =

**Text:** //The Odyssey// by Homer, //Antigone// by Sophocles, //The Myths of Greece and Rome// by Guerber, poetry based on Greek mythology.
 * [[image:http://www.theopenroadtheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Odyssey-ORT-Website-poster.jpg width="218" height="279" align="left"]]Greek Mythology //and The Odyssey// **


 * Enduring Understandings: ** (Students will understand how...)
 * Human beings values, concerns and desires are similar throughout time.
 * The Greek and Roman myths helped the Greeks and Romans understand their world.
 * Allusions to Greek and Roman myths are present in our culture.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A culture’s beliefs and values are revealed through stories and literature.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Experiences shape a person’s character and reveal the character of a person.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Loyalty and family are important throughout time.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The actions, decisions and experiences reveal the qualities of an epic hero and a tragic hero.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The qualities of a hero reflect the culture and values of a hero.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The myths, The Odyssey and the contemporary poems convey important lessons about life and values.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Essential Questions: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How do the myths and stories of Ancient Greece and Rome reflect the values of Ancient Greece and Rome?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Why were the Greek and Roman myths important to these societies?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Why is the study of mythology relevant to our world today?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How are the gods and goddesses and humans of Ancient Greece and Rome similar to us?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How do Odysseus’ experience affect and shape his character?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What qualities define an epic hero? How does Odysseus exemplify these qualities?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What is the role of loyalty and family in The Odyssey?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What qualities define a tragic hero? Who is the tragic hero in Antigone?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How does the tragic hero exemplify the qualities of the tragic hero?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How do myths, epic poems and poems convey meaning?


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">God and goddess electronic poster project with class presentation
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Active reading of myths, The Odyssey, Antigone: post it notes, storyboards, guided reading questions
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Odyssey map project
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tragic Hero essay
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Theme essay
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">View segments of Clash of the Gods- complete listening activity
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read nonfiction article on The Odyssey
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Introduction to Poetry reading: SOAPSTone
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Analyze contemporary poems based on The Odyssey understand its relevance and purpose

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Possible Texts:** “The Circuit” “Lamb to the Slaughter” “What I Want To Be When I Grow Up” “The Veldt” “The Scarlet Ibis” “Rough Touch” Of Mice and Men
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[[image:http://www.teenreads.com/sites/default/files/the-circuit-by-francisco-jimenez.jpg width="190" height="309" align="left"]]Short Stories and the Novella **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Enduring Understandings:** (Students will understand how…)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Writers use literary devices such as foreshadowing, irony, symbolism and imagery to enhance the stories they tell.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A theme is what the author conveys about life through the story.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The setting of a story influences the characters’ perspective and the events of the story
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The characters and the events in the story help the reader understand people and life.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Essential Questions: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How does the writer use literary devices to enhance the story and to create meaning?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How is the setting of a story significant?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How is the theme of the story revealed?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How are characters developed?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What do the stories reveal about life and people?


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Socratic seminar
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Theme essay
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Literature circle roles
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Great Depression and Dust Bowl blog entries
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Poems related to the depression
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Poems “Oranges”
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Visual Great Depression images poetry project

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Possible Texts:** Follet The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare; side by side text
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[[image:http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/upload/yuiupload/811614123.jpg width="467" height="469" align="left"]]Plays- //The Tragedy of Julius Caesar// **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Enduring Understandings** (Students will understand how…)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Shakespeare’s work is relevant today
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">there are different points of view for every situation.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">rhetorical devices, strategies and appeals are effectively employed
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">situations can be viewed from different perspectives.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">determining whom to trust can be difficult.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Actions, decisions and experiences reveal the characteristics of a tragic hero.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Actions have consequences


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Essential Questions **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How is Shakespeare’s work relevant to our lives today?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What is rhetoric?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How are rhetorical devices and strategies effectively employed?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How do different characters view the same circumstance or situation differently?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What are the characteristics of friendship?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What are the characteristics of a hero?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How does a character fulfill the characteristics of a tragic hero?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What consequences do the characters face for their actions.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Storyboards
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Acting
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quote explications
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Research on Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, the Globe Theater
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Audio scene voice thread project
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Character mask project
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quizzes on each act of the play

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Texts-** //To Kill a Mockingbird// by Harper Lee
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51grMGCKivL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg align="left"]]The Novel **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Enduring Understanding** (Students will understand how…)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Racism and prejudice are destructive and inhumane/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">People have different perspectives of the same situation.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Loyalty and courage take many forms.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">People must face the consequences of their behavior and actions.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Essential Questions **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How are racism and prejudice destructive?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What is loyalty?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What is courage?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Why is it important to consider the consequences of our choices?


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Great Depression photo analysis and poetry writing assignment
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Map of Maycomb close reading assignment
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Trial Analysis Handout
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Rhetorical Analysis of Atticus' closing arguments
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">To Kill a Mockingbird film
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading Quizzes
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Theme Visual Project

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Text:** //Power Plus Vocabulary 1//
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Vocabulary -SAT/PSAT practice- Grammar instruction [[image:http://i43.tower.com/images/mm109307996/vocabulary-power-plus-for-new-sat-book-1-daniel-a-reed-paperback-cover-art.jpg align="right"]] **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Enduring Understanding (Students will understand how...) **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">reading comprehension is enhanced with the acquisition of an advanced vocabulary
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">to use vocabulary words
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">strategies will reading comprehension and performance on multiple choice reading comprehension exercises based on SAT/PSAT style reading comprehension exercises
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> grammar rules


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Essential Questions **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How does comprehension of vocabulary help with understanding of high school level readings?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How can vocabulary increase?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What reading strategies are helpful when completing SAT and PSAT style reading comprehension multiple choice exercises?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How can grammar and usage errors be avoided in writing and speaking?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How can performance on SAT and PSAT grammar sections improve through the study and review of grammar rules?


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Activities **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Complete exercises in the Power Plus SAT Vocabulary Level 1 book
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Participate in group vocabulary activities
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Practice vocabulary with the online tools provided through the vocabulary book
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Take quizzes on the vocabulary, reading comprehension and grammar skills

ASSIGNMENTS AND RESOURCES- Freshman CP English = =