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Life of Galileo UBD

Essential Questions:

How do we communicate?Can literature serve as a vehicle for social change?

To what extent does power or lack of power impact people?

Enduring Understandings:

Authorship is an important way to make your voice heard and influence society.

People who feel powerless often find a way to make a difference.

Content Skills

Literary Elements Prewriting-outlining

-Theme Using Evidence from text-Characterization Comparison & contrast of events in

-Plot Structure history & today

Scientific Revolution Descriptive LanguageEnlightennment Reading informational text, adapting

French Revolution it into a narrative

Latin American RevolutionsBrecht's life

Materials

Cuban Blogger/ Juan of the Dead.

Video of play being performed

Audio of play being performed

Copernic and Ptolemaic models of Uverse

Performance Task

Students will adapt a historical event into a narrative that makes an argument about a current issue.

___________________________________________________________________________________Learning Activities

Content

used

Learning goal Learning Activity Assessment

Before we

read

Articulate opinion on what it takes

to have your voice heard, and the

impact of new ideas on society.

Anticipation guide,

graded discussion on

themes of play.

Discussion response

sheet using evidence

from class talk.

First 5 pages Analyze how Brecht characterizesGalileo and Andrea

Read aloud think aloud . Double entry diary withquotes from characters,

and what it says about

them.

Galileo'sspeech

Determine the theme of a work andanalyze how the author reveals the

theme: power of new ideas,

Study & highlightGalileo's speech. Read

aloud. Spirit read parts

Journal entry: Whatthemes does Gallileo

touch on in his speech?

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importance of having voice heard. students underlined. What does he feel is

important? How doesthe author begin to

reveal the theme of the

play?

Galileo

explain themodel

Analyze a theme of Life of Galileo:

The power of new ideas.

Warm up: Journal

prompt. Is it hard toteach someone a new

idea? Have you ever

been forced to thinkdifferently by new

information? How do

people react to newideas?

Watch video of Galileo

explaining models of

systems to Andrea.Follow along with play,

identify when Andreagets it by underlining.

Journal: How did

different characters reactto Galileo's new idea?

What does that tell you

about these characters?Why would Brecht use

these specific characters

to be the people reactingto this new idea?

Ludovico/curator intro

the

inquisition,

Evaluate how context plays a partin developing the argument of a

work of historical fiction.

Read aloud threat ofinquisition. Video clip

about the inquisition.

Students will makecontext charts about

the Spanish inquisition,

listing facts about theinquisition and

evaluating how it relates

to a theme of the play.

Intro Brecht/Mccartheyis

m

Compare & contrast historicalevents from two different time

periods.

Mini lessonvideo/reading on

Mccarthyism in

America.

T chart on similarities

and differences between

Mccarthyism and theInquisition.

Miniature thematicessay using the

information on T chart

to compare and contrastwork.

Intro to

performancetask

Determine what themes could

emerge from writing aboutdifferent content.

Students will break into

groups to look atinformation on 4

different historicalevents. They should

summarize the event

and list one theme thatthey could write about

using this event and

why.

They will send an

expert to the othergroups to teach the other

groups about their event.The expert must also be

taught about what the

other groups did. Theexperts will then rotate.

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