12 th Grade English: Theme: Winds of Change 15 days From ______ to ______

Unit Summary (What) & Rationale (Why) Analyze and evaluate the evolution of political, social and religious influence on British culture during the 17th and 18th centuries. Theme, Concepts, & Essential Questions
Theme: Winds of Change Concepts:

CC/CCR

Targeted StandardsBased Tasks

Targeted StandardsBased Essential Strategies

Reading for Literature: Modeling

Demonstration of Students Understanding

Diagnostic Assessment(s): Pre-reading of text with constructed responses Formative Assessments: CFUs MSL style quizzes and testlets Summative Assessment(s): -Reading texts with constructed responses and MSL style multiple choice questions

Resources (text complexity and lexile levels)

Anchor Text(s): Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice Supplemental Text(s): Poems by Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Tennyson, Blakeand Wordsworth Diary of Samuel Pepys excerpt

RL: 1,2,3,5,9

Reading for Literature:

Scientific discovery changes society Exploration influences changes in cultures

Essential Questions:

Identify and evaluate romantic and enlightenment texts based on literary characteristics and historical bias
Compare/contrast literary periods

Collaborative Learning Study Guides Anticipation Guides Literacy Strategies (1

Sentence Summary, Q.A.R., content mapping)

How have scientific advances

Class Discussions Graphic Organizers

influenced society? RI: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9 How does European progress during this time affect America? How has exploration shaped Europe and America culturally, religiously, scientifically, etc.? What influence did religion have on the culture of England and greater Europe? How do the beliefs of the W: 3,4,5 Puritans influence modern day society and its beliefs and values? How do spiritual and moral beliefs affect a readers experience with

Reading for Informational Text:

Identify the relationships between scientific/technologi cal advancements and changes in cultures Analyze the impact of religious issues of the enlightenment and romantic periods. Evaluate the impact of political issues on literature, culture, and religion.
Writing:

Reading for Informational Text:

-Presentations Class Projects -Quizzes -Tests

Defoes Journal of the Plague Year excerpt Explicating Donne (Informational) Mayflower Compact Womens Rights are Human Rights by Hilary Clinton

Collaborative Learning Research Study Guides Gallery Walks

Declaration of Independence
Media: Clips from PBS version of Pride and Prejudice History Channel The 19th Amendment Political cartoons

Imitate texts through Writing: the creation of Constructed modern romantic Responses poetry and prose Collaborative Learning Identify satirical Research devices and use them as a model for Graphic writing Organizers Sonnet Writing

The

text? SL:1,3,4,6
Speaking/Listening: Develop listening and communication skills through presentation and group collaboration.

Exit tickets

Speaking/Listeni ng:

L:1,2,3,4,5

Language: Explore the evolution of English from the Renaissance through the Romantic Periods

Collaborative Learning Gallery Walks Class Discussions Graphic Organizers Collaborative Learning (Thinkpair share) Vocabulary context clues

Nightwatch by Rembrandt and the Girl with the Pearl Earring by Vermeer

Language:

Technology:

Use technology such as toondo to create and share original political cartoons.

Technology: Create satire cartoons that lampoon current political issues.

Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary: Content Satire, blank verse, rhyme, meter, iambic pentameter, epic, elegy, sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, allegory, conceit, In medias res, metaphysical poetry, paradox, personification, rationalism Notes: (How will I scaffold learning for student readiness & diversity?)

(Add in code for BRT at each task) Blooms Revised Taxonomy: R=Remembering, U=Understanding, AP=Applying, AN=Analyzing, E=Evaluating, C=Creating