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Assessment Plan
Units/Strands and Big Ideas/Essential Skills
Unit 1: EssaysStrands: Writing
Unit 2: Short FictionStrands: Reading
Unit 3: Literature CirclesStrands: Reading, Oral, Writing *
Unit 4: PoetryReading, Media
Unit 5: HamletReading, Media
Unit 6: CCA
Big Ideas/Essential Skills:1. What is the relationship
between
audience and purpose andcontent and form in
non-fictionwriting?
Developing and OrganizingContent
Using Knowledge of Form
and Style
Understanding Form and
Style
Applying Knowledge of
Conventions
Reflecting on Skills and
Strategies
Big Ideas/Essential Skills:1. How do different critical
lensesaffect the ways in which we interpretliterature?
Reading for Meaning Understanding Form and
Style
Reading with Fluency
Reflecting on Skills and
Strategies
Big Ideas/Essential Skills:1. How do we find meaning through
literature?2. What is the role of literature within
society?
Listening to Understand Speaking to Communicate
Reading for Meaning
Understanding Form and Style
Reading with Fluency
Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
Developing and Organizing
Content
Big Ideas/Essential Skills:1. What kinds of insight can
poetry
reveal that other text forms cantreveal?
2. How do you create an effective
media text?
Reading for Meaning
Understanding Form and Style
Understanding Media Texts
Understanding Media Forms
Conventions and Techniques
Creating Media Texts
Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
Big Ideas/Essential Skills:1. What is the relevance of
classic
texts for a modern audience?
Understanding Media Texts
Understanding Media FormsConventions and Techniques
Creating Media Texts
Reflecting on Skills and Strategies
Reading for Meaning
Understanding Form and Style
Reading with Fluency
Big Ideas/Essential Skills:1. How do you effectivelycommunicate
insight gained bycomparing two literary texts?
*Although the Literature Circle Unit is technically the third
unit, you need to start it early in the course. It overlaps with
Unit 1 and 2. The culminating task for this unit is the CCA for the
course and is wo10% of their overall mark.
Summative Assessments
Title/description: Essay (throughoutthe unit, students will
create outlinesfor different types of essays. They willtake one of
these outlines tocompletion.
Title/description: Short Storypresentation: in small
groupsstudents will apply one school ofliterary criticism to a new
short storyTest
Title/description: Readers Journals:throughout the unit students
willprepare reading response journals.Their best set of journals
for eachbook will be assessed.
Title/description: Poetry Anthology:students create a multimedia
poetryanthology based on a particulartheme or author. Includes
Venndiagram and poetry explication
Title/description: Multimedia projectStudents will create a
thesis andchoose a presentation format basedon one of the key ideas
in the play.
Title/description: Comparative Ess
Specific ExpectationsW 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4,
2.6,2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7R 1.1, 1.2, 3.1M 1.1
Specific ExpectationsR 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7,
2.3,3.3,O 1.9 , 2.4, 2.6, 2.7
Specific ExpectationsO 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1,
2.2,2.3,R 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.3,3.2, 3.3
Specific ExpectationsR 1.1M 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4W1.3, 1.4, 3.6,
3.7
Specific ExpectationsR 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7,
1.8,2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2,M 1.1, 1.5, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2
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*Although the Literature Circle Unit is technically the third
unit, you need to start it early in the course. It overlaps with
Unit 1 and 2. The culminating task for this unit is the CCA for the
course and is wo10% of their overall mark.
Formative Assessments
Title/description: Reading Diagnostic:Essay Sojourners
Title/description: Elements of FictionReview: Students will
create afoldable organizer of elements offiction and common
literary devices(done in small groups as jigsaw orgive one/get
one)
Title/description: Novel Selection:Students choose eitherLife of
PiandHaroun and the Sea of Stories orThree Day Roadand The
StoneCarvers
Title/description: Intro to Poetry:note and reflective
journal
Title/description: Key Ideas inHamletBackground lecture
usingbackchannel discussion:www.todaysmeet.com
Title/description: Grammar Review:sentence types
(compound/complex),active vs passive voice, parallelstructure,
apositives, comma, semicolon. Spread throughout unit.
Seehttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/
Title/description: How to Keep aReaders Journal Students do
apractice set of readers journals forThings That Fly as preparation
forLiterature Circle Readers Journals
Title/Description: DiscussionQuestion Concept Attainment andQ
chart
Title/description: Practice PoetryExplication: This is A
Photograph ofMe model poetry explication
Title/description: Brevity is the Soulof (T)wit: Students are
assigned rolesand tweet throughout the playreflecting on the ways
in which t heactions and events affect theircharacter (discussions
are assessedrather than tweets)
Title/description: Academic Citationand MLA format: label and
annotatean academic essay in MLA format.Students write a mini essay
(one page)demonstrating proper academic citationand grammar but not
content.
Title/description: Introduction toLiterary Criticism: Begin
withReader Response note: apply toThings That Fly and
DiscussionQuestions
Title/description: Literature CircleMeetings (3 per book).
Discussionquestions and oral communicationassessed.
Title/description: Poetry Explication:Dulce et Decorum Est
Studentscreate a set of notes with a partner.Then the next day they
write thepoetry explication (using their ownnotes)
individually.
Title/description: Content quizzes
Title/description: The Narrative EssayNote on Narrative
EssayRead April Fools on Polar CircusAnalyze essayCreate outline
for own personal essay.
Title/description: Archetypal LiteraryCriticism: note and apply
to ThingsThat FlyLook at Joseph Campbellsmonomyth in relation to
pop culture
Title/description: Reflective BlogpostsAfter each meeting,
studentsare given a series of prompts tochoose from to construct a
responsethat consolidates ideas from literaturecircle meeting
Title/description: Poetic Devices Flipbook: similar to flip book
from shortstory unit
Title/description: Theme Journals:For a given act students
choose oneof the themes from the Key Ideas inHamlet note and
explain how thetheme has been developed. (Do two,mark the best
one)
Title/description: The PersuasiveEssay: Note on Persuasive
EssayRead Liking is for Cowards orScience and Beauty
Analyze essayCreate outline for own persuasiveessay
Title/description: Marxist LiteraryCriticism: Read Transients
inArcadia, discuss level of language.Pop song lyric rewrite
Note on Marxist literary criticismApply to Transients
Title/description: Rhythm and meter:teacher models poetry
scansion forthe class then students working inpairs complete the
poetry scansion.
Title/description: Discussionquestions: Hand some in. Useothers
for more informal classdiscussions.
Title/description: The Essay ofArgument: Note on Essay of
ArgumentRead Politics and the EnglishLanguageAnalyze essayNote on
logical thinkingCreate outline for own essay ofargument
Title/description: Formalist LiteraryCriticism: Read On the
Rainy RiverJournal response on story truthNote on FormalismApply to
On the Rainy River
Title/description: Venn Diagramcomparison of two Poems
Classsplit in half. Each half reads andanalyzes a different poem
and thenhas to teach it to a partner. Thenindividually create a
venn diagram tocompare them. Late Landing andBecause I could not
stop for Death
Title/description: Small group scenepresentations (if time
permits)Students present a scene and explainhow it furthers plot,
develops theme,character, conflict, etc.
Title/description: The DescriptiveEssay Note on Descriptive
EssayRead On the Road to BerlinAnalyze essayCreate outline for own
descriptiveessay
Title/description: StructuralistLiterary Criticism: Note
onStructuralist literary criticismApply to On the Rainy River
Title/description: Small groupanalysis/presentation of
essaysabout Hamlet.
Title/description: Feminist LiteraryCriticism: Note on Feminist
literarycriticismRead The Yellow WallpaperApply Feminist literary
criticism toThe Yellow Wallpaper
Title/description: Literary CriticismConcept Map
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