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- In this Grade 12 Literary Criticism Module, students read and analyze Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon, as they continue to build the skills required to craft strong informative essays and...
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- In this 12th grade module, students read, discuss, and analyze four literary texts, focusing on the development of interrelated central ideas within and across the texts. The mains texts in this...
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- Over the course of Module 12.2, students practice and refine their informative writing and speaking and listening skills through formative assessments, and apply these skills in the Mid-Unit and End-...
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- In the first unit of Module 12.1, students are introduced to the skills, practices, and routines of close reading and evidence-based writing and discussion, and engage regularly in the critical...
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- In this lesson, students analyze the closing section of text from chapter 19 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pages 385–389 (from “Anything I do today, I regard as urgent” to “Only the mistakes...
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- In this lesson, students participate in a jigsaw discussion to analyze 4 sections of text from chapter 11 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. In these passages, Malcolm fully embraces the teachings of...
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- In this lesson, students continue reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, chapters 8–9, pages 148–153 (from “Early evenings when we were laying low” to “the religion of Islam and it completely...
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- In this lesson, students continue their analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and continue to explore techniques of narrative writing. Students read the opening section of chapter 4, pages 59–62...
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- In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary texts, focusing on the authors’ choices in developing and relating textual elements such as character development, point of view, and...
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- In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze literary and informational texts, focusing on how authors use word choice and rhetoric to develop ideas, and advance their points of view and...
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- Students review how both Kurosawa’s hero and Rupert Goold’s Macbeth interact with supernatural powers, exploring the significance of how directorial choices emphasize different elements of a drama.
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- Students view and analyze the 2011 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Macbeth (00:00-14:55) in order to compare the film version of Acts 1.1 through 1.3 to the original text.
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- In this End-of-Unit Assessment, students craft a formal, multi-paragraph essay presenting an argument in response to the question of which character bears the most responsibility for the tragedy of...
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- 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...
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- Students read and analyze Macbeth Act 2.3, in which a drunken Porter opens the gates of the castle to Lennox and Macduff, prompting the discovery of Duncan’s murder and the flight of his sons Malcolm...
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and...
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- In this unit, students engage with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, continuing to build skills for close reading and analysis of nonfiction as well developing their ability to identify and...
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- In this lesson, students reread the scene at Ophelia’s grave in order to analyze how Shakespeare develops his characters through their responses to Ophelia’s death. This lesson integrates RL.11-12.2...
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- In this unit, students continue to develop skills, practices, and routines that will be used on a regular basis in the English Language Arts classroom throughout the year: close reading, annotating...
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- In this lesson, the End-of-Unit Assessment, students engage in an evidence-based discussion of Browning’s choices about introducing and developing the Duke over the course of “My Last Duchess.” This...
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- In the first unit of Module 1, students are introduced to the skills, practices, and routines of close reading, annotating text, and evidence-based discussion and writing, especially through text-...
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- 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...