Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Literature Across Time

Name: Jason Iu

Content Area: English

Grade Level: 12th grade

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Reading Literature 9-10.5
Analyze how an authors choices concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing,
flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Reading Literature 9-10.6
Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Reading Literature 9-10.7
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different
artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Audens Muse des Beaux Arts and Breughels Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
Big Ideas:
How do we communicate with each other? Has this changed over time or has it remained pretty much the same? Telling a good story has long been an important part of how
we connect with one another. As you go through this unit, reflect on this: Can people from different times and cultures understand each other? Do the beliefs we reflect
through our writing reach an audience from a different world?

Unit Goals and Objectives:

By the end of the unit, students will be expected to complete the following objectives:
1. Compare the structure between two pieces of literature, spread hundreds or thousands of years apart.
2. Analyze the core themes of a literature by recreating it in a different artistic medium.
3. Examine how our views of certain subjects have changed over time and across cultures.

Unit Summary:

Have you ever read literature from hundreds or even thousands of years ago and marvel at how differently people used to speak? How differently people used to tell stories?
Well, if you have, you're not alone. In this unit, we will be examining how the art of storytelling has changed across the ages. We will then take a part in showing this change
by portraying classic stories with a modern twist. This includes setting the stories in modern times, or retelling stories in different mediums, including film, music, poetry,
and more. Prepare to use up all that creative energy I know you have in this class!

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: The unit will be introduced by getting the
students to brainstorm on how stories have changed
over time. They will compare modern stories with
ancient tales, and discuss the why such changes may
have occurred.

Formative: Students will take what they learned to

complete a webercise and an online quiz. They will also
make use of their knowledge in a competitive review
game in class.

Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:
Compare the structure
between two pieces of
literature, spread hundreds
or thousands of years apart.

Acceptable Evidence:
Students will accomplish this
by writing their own
literature in two versions one using each of these
structures.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Essay
Group Discussion
Graphic Organizer

Acceptable Evidence:
Students will retell key scenes
of stories using film, music,
poetry, or any other means
they have at their disposal.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Media Project
Project Outline

Acceptable Evidence:
Students will see the morals
and lessons presented in
literature, as well as the
actions of the characters, as
debate on whether they agree
with them.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Lecture
Class Debate

Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:
Analyze the core themes of a
literature by recreating it in a
different artistic medium.

Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:
Examine how our views of
certain subjects have changed
over time and across cultures.

Summative: The class will take a test that

encompasses what we learned in the unit. They will
also be creating a project that involves producing a
piece of media based on classic literature.

Unit Resources:
Textbook
Teacher Site
Handouts

Useful Websites:
No Fear Shakespeare - a modern translation of many of Shakespeare's plays, side-by-side with the original.
E Reading Worksheets - a place to just practice identifying text structures.
Thug Notes - another source for modern interpretations of classic literature.