Unit 1: Tenacity and Futility

Assessments for Unit 1

Extended Literary Texts: 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

• online text; audiobook with full text; LitCharts notes on background, plot, characters, themes, and analysis; character chart
•  vocabulary BONUS, literary work review BONUS 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• online text; audiobook; LitCharts notes on background, plot, characters, themes, and analysis; character chart; tragedy & comedy PPT; soliloquy, monologue, aside PPT; stichomythia PPT; allusion PP; revenge tragedy PPT; Ophelia's flowers PPT; significance of flowers
• vocabulary BONUS, literary work review BONUS 
• PBS Shakespeare Uncovered: Hamlet with David Tennant
• Standard Deviants videos: the plot, mystery, Hamlet's character, philosophy, revenge, tragedy, Shakespeare's use of language
• Akala (of the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company) at TEDxAdelburgh: Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? 

Weeks of AUGUST 18 & 25

Monday/Tuesday

• DIAGNOSTIC: AP Exam poetry multiple-choice, answers submitted via Socrative
• MINI-LESSON: Vanitas and Dutch Masters art (text excerpts, PowerPoint)
• CLOSE-READING, ANNOTATION, DISCUSSION: Vanitas text excerpts 
• CLOSE-READING & ANNOTATION: thematically-related poetry (poetry packet)

Wednesday/Thursday

• SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT DUE (instructions) 
• GUIDED MC ANALYSIS: role of structure in Jay Wright's "The Albuquerque Graveyard" (instructions)
• MINI-LESSON: frame narrative (PPT, effects of frame narrative)
• GUIDED CLOSE-READING: Wuthering Heights chapter 1 (online text)
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: characterization and setting analysis with graphic organizer

Friday/Monday

• DIFFERENTIATION (groups determined by diagnostic MC score): written analysis of correct answer to one AP Exam poetry multiple-choice question (instructions), paragraphs submitted via Socrative
• MINI-LESSON: tragedy (Tragedy vs. Comedy PPT, literary terms for Hamlet)
• GUIDED CLOSE-READING, VIEWING, & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 1, Scenes 1-2  
• HOMEWORK:  Hamlet Act 1 AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation of thematically-related poetry with graphic organizer   

Tuesday/Wednesday

• MINI-LESSON: stichomythia (PPT, Beatrice & Benedick's battle and word play in Much Ado About Nothing) 
• MINI-LESSON: soliloquy, monologue, aside (PPT, Iago divulging his  character in Othello)  
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 1, Scenes 2-5 
• HOMEWORK: Hamlet Act 1 AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions 
• DIFFERENTIATION (groups determined by diagnostic Socratic seminar scores):  Harkness discussion groups of thematically-related poetry (poetry packet)
• MINI-LESSON: setting (PPT, elements of setting YouTube video)
• HOMEWORK: prepare for Socratic seminars on role of setting in Wuthering Heights (graphic organizer) and thematically-related poetry (graphic organizer, poetry packet)     

Thursday/Friday

• READING DUE: Wuthering Heights chapters 1-7
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Wuthering Heights AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions, answers submitted via Socrative  
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Socratic seminar about role of setting in Wuthering Heights (graphic organizer) 
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Socratic seminar about thematically-related poetry (graphic organizer, poetry packet)  

Weeks of SEPTEMBER 1 & 8

Monday/Tuesday

• LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
• PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR TEACHERS 

Wednesday/Thursday

• Henry County Schools SLO PRE-ASSESSMENT
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Hamlet Act 1 AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions, answers submitted via Socrative  
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 2, Scenes 1-2  
• HOMEWORK: Hamlet Act 2 AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions

Friday/Monday

• ANNOTATION & ANALYSIS:  AP Literature Exam 2009 poetry FRQ (Cardinal Wolsey soliloquy from Shakespeare's Henry VIII Act 3, Scene 2) [prompt]
• MINI-LESSON: AP Exam poetry FRQ essay outline (outline template, graphic organizer with essay overlay, annotated prompt) 
• SMALL-GROUP ANALYSIS: highlighting of AP Literature Exam 2009 poetry FRQ samples essays (YELLOW analysis, BLUE literary devices, PINK textual evidence, GREEN precise diction) 
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 (selected scenes)
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT:  Hamlet Act 2 AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions, answers submitted via Socrative   

Tuesday/Wednesday

• ASSESSMENT 1: AP Exam Free-Response Question 1 (poetry analysis essay)
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: AP Exam multiple-choice about Shakespearean soliloquy, answers submitted via Socrative 
• READING DUE: Wuthering Heights chapters 8-14 

Thursday/Friday

• DIFFERENTIATION: Harkness discussion groups of character development and conflict in Wuthering Heights chapters 8-14 (discussion questions)
• MINI-LESSON: Elizabethan familiar pronouns (PPT, "Thou, Thee, Thy, and Thine" from What's It All About, Shakespeare? blog)
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 2, Scenes 1-2 & Act 3, Scenes 1-4 (selected scenes)
• CLOSE-READING: revenge allusion in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 (PPT slide)
• EXTENSION ACTIVITY: "A Small Rewrite" (Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson for Comic Relief) 
• HOMEWORK: Wuthering Heights AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation (syntax, pronoun use, and stichomythia) in Hamlet & Gertrude’s confrontation in Act 3, Scene 4 (text and instructions) 

Weeks of SEPTEMBER 15 & 22

Monday/Tuesday

• DIFFERENTIATION & SMALL-GROUP WORK:  analysis of correct answer to one AP Exam Shakespeare soliloquy multiple-choice question (instructions)
• SMALL-GROUP DISCUSSION (Harkness Method): close-reading analysis (syntax, pronoun use, and stichomythia) in Hamlet & Gertrude’s confrontation in Act 3, Scene 4 (text and instructions)   
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 1-2 (selected scenes)
• HOMEWORK:  Hamlet Act 3 reading and AP Exam-style multiple-choice questions 
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation of “Of Revenge” (Sir Francis Bacon) with graphic organizer   

Wednesday/Thursday

• ASSESSMENT 2: analysis paragraph of correct answer to AP Exam multiple-choice question about Shakespearean soliloquy   

Friday/Monday

• READING DUE: Wuthering Heights chapters 15-21
• CLASS DISCUSSION: complex character adjectives for Heathcliff and Catherine from Wuthering Heights chapters 1-14
• MINI-LESSON: revenge tragedy (YouTube montage of Inigo Montoya from Princess Bride, "Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy" from Shakespeare Online, "The Key to Success? Grit": Angela Lee Duckworth's April 2013 TED Talk) 
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 3, Scenes 2-4 (selected scenes) 
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation of “Of Revenge” (Sir Francis Bacon) with graphic organizer   
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation of Hamlet's soliloquies from Hamlet 

Tuesday/Wednesday

• SELF-REFLECTION: analysis of SLO poetry FRQ and Assessment 1 poetry FRQ 
• MINI-LESSON: wise fools ("Shakespearean Fools: Their Modern Equivalents" from BBC News)
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 4, Scenes 1-4 
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation of “Of Revenge” (Sir Francis Bacon) 
• HOMEWORK: close-reading and annotation of Hamlet's soliloquies from Hamlet 

Thursday/Friday

• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT (Socratic seminar practice): rhetorical analysis of “Of Revenge” (Sir Francis Bacon) with graphic organizer  
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: internal conflict, revenge, tragedy (Hamlet's soliloquies from Hamlet) 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: ASSESSMENT 1 revision preparation poetry close-reading, annotation, theme, thesis composition, and outline creation (outline template, graphic organizer with essay overlay, annotated prompt, theme)

Weeks of SEPTEMBER 29 & OCTOBER 13

Monday/Tuesday

• READING DUE: Wuthering Heights chapters 22-28
• DIFFERENTIATION: small-group work on characterization in Wuthering Heights (complex character adjectives and integrating supporting evidence into analysis)   
• ASSESSMENT 3a: AP Exam Free-Response Question 1 (verse analysis essay of soliloquy from Hamlet)  

Wednesday/Thursday

• COUNSELOR VISIT: graduation requirements, GPA, HOPE scholarship, college admissions
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 4, Scenes 5-7 (Ophelia's flowers PPT)

Friday/Monday

• MINI-LESSON: comic relief 
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 5, Scenes 1-2 
• DIFFERENTIATION: theme statement workshop (theme template) 

Tuesday/Wednesday

• READING DUE: Wuthering Heights chapters 29-34
• VIEWING & ANALYSIS: Hamlet Act 5, Scene 2  
• DIFFERENTIATION: genre and theme workshop (genre prompt, theme template) 
• GUIDED WRITING LESSON: small-group work on characterization in Wuthering Heights (complex character adjectives and integrating supporting evidence into analysis) [group paragraph drafts] 
• SMALL-GROUP WORK: complex characterization analysis for Hareton Earnshaw and Catherine Linton Heathcliff Earnshaw 

Thursday/Friday

• ASSESSMENT 3b: AP Exam Free-Response Question 2 (characterization analysis essay, passage from Wuthering Heights) 
• Socratic seminar preparation with graphic organizer 

Week of OCTOBER 20

Monday/Tuesday

• Socratic seminar preparation with graphic organizer 
• preparation for Assessment 4: AP Exam Free-Response Question 3 (thematic analysis essay with student choice of text for support) [potential essay topics]  

Wednesday/Thursday

• ASSESSMENT 4: AP Exam Free-Response Question 3 (thematic analysis essay with student choice of text for support) [potential essay topics] 
• Socratic seminar preparation with graphic organizer 

Friday/Monday

• ASSESSMENT 5: Socratic seminar discussion (graphic organizer) 
• introduction to unit 2: theme of veracity and facade