Jan 26, 2016 - Students read excerpts from Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince. Students use the skills, practices, and routines that they have developed throughout the year to identify central...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students view and analyze Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film adaptation of Macbeth, in order to compare Kurosawa’s presentation of the opening scenes (the first 20:09 minutes of the film) to...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 5.2 and 5.3, in which the thanes desert Macbeth, who seeks assurances in the Witches’ prophecy and who receives updates from the Doctor on Lady Macbeth’s illness...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 2.1, in which Macbeth and Banquo agree to discuss their encounter with the witches at a later date and Macbeth prepares to kill Duncan. 

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 1.5, in which Lady Macbeth begins to consider murdering Duncan after receiving a letter from her husband about his encounter with the Witches. 

Jan 26, 2016 - Students develop these close reading skills as they examine Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They also continue to develop their oral presentation and argument writing skills through a series of activities...

Jan 26, 2016 - Students read E. B. White’s personal essay “Death of a Pig.” Students analyze how White unfolds and draws connections between key events and ideas in the text while developing and refining his...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this End-of-Unit Assessment, students demonstrate their cumulative understanding of the arguments presented in all three of the unit texts. Students first delineate the argument of each text and...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this first lesson of the unit, students read and analyze the Preamble and Articles 1–10 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to identify the document’s purpose and the basic human rights...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read and analyze paragraphs 20–22 of “A Genetics of Justice, in which Alvarez elaborates on her description of her mother’s enduring terror of the Trujillo regime and the “...

Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students read “Women,” a poem by the contemporary writer, Alice Walker. Students work in pairs to analyze Walker’s poem before working in small groups to consider how the poem...