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English 3-4 (World Literature)

September

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Assessment English 3-4: World Literature

Essential Questions: Why read

literature? What makes a story interesting? What is “World Literature” (Weltliteratur)?

Students will know…

The different forms of literature (Fiction, Poetry, Plays, Nonfiction)

Key Literary Terms (Protagonist, Antagonist, Symbolism, Metaphor)

The common themes are found in literature worldwide

The elements of a short story/novel (conflict, character, theme, point of view, setting, pattern of action)

Analysis of literature begins with identifying elements of a story and pulling apart those elements.

Compare/Contrast is a form of analysis.

Texts: Summer Reading Books

Writing

(Clarity) #1 To tighten wordy sentences, #2 Active verbs (p. 2-5)

(Grammar) #10 To make subjects & verbs agree (p. 21-25)

(Punctuation) #17 To use the Comma properly (p. 58)

Students will be able to…

Summarize a story or event succinctly and accurately

Read a piece of work critically (analytically) and identify its plot elements

Analyze a piece of literature and correctly identify its themes

Take notes from a lecture using the Cornell Method of Note-Taking

Write a paragraph using a topic sentence, elaboration sentences, & illustrations

Performance Tasks:

Paragraph-length summary of an event

Break down a short story to identify the elements of literature in a concept map (theme, character, plot, structure, setting, point of view, language & style, irony)

They Say, I Say Essay: How are Slam and She went By Gently similar? different? (Formative)

Quizzes on literary terms

Quiz onSubject-Verb Agreement

Quiz on Comma Usage

Quiz on “She Went Gently By”

Content

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Assessment The Literature of Latin America

Magical Realism Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a

Death Foretold (1982)

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Assessment Students will know…

Point of View: Journalistic Fiction

The elements of a mystery

Analysis of literature begins with identifying elements of a story and pulling apart those elements.

Themes in Literature: "Sex, Power. Death. The rest are just sub-classifications."

The role of Symbolism & Imagery in a novel

A culture of machismo & "Honor"

in a Colombian town in the early 1900s.

Class & Power.

Fate & Inevitability.

Gender Roles & Sexual Hypocrisy.

How an apparently obvious set of events can possess deep, disturbing truths.

Mechanics, Punctuation, Grammar

The types of sentences in a complete paragraph

Argumentation

The MLA format of essays

The Apostrophe (possessives and

contractions)

The Literature of Asia Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese

Seamstress (2000)


the philosophy, values, &

workings of Communism and

Capitalism

China's Cultural Revolution

Chairman Mao Zedong

How do Communism, Socialism

& Capitalism differ?


Summarize a story or event succinctly and accurately

Read a piece of work critically (analytically) and identify its plot elements

Annotate a text

Analyze a piece of literature by studying its elements individually.

Analyze a piece of literature by discovering & discussing its themes

Take notes from a lecture

Compose paragraphs using a topic sentence, context, evidence, commentary, and conclusion sentences

Develop a thesis (response) to literature and support it with facts from Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Support an assertion with evidence

Write an essay using the MLA format


Compose paragraphs following

the "Topic Sentence-Context-

Evidence-Commentary-

Concluding Sentence" format

Use the MLA format for essays

and compositions

Use the apostrophe appropriately


Explain the differences between

communism, socialism, &

capitalism.

Explain the structure of the social

pyramid: elites, bourgeoisie,

proletariat

Explain what a revolution is.

Performance Tasks

Personal Response Journals--

paragraph-length responses to

chapters of Chronicle of a Death

Foretold following paragraph

format (topic sentence, context, evidence, commentary, and conclusion sentences)

In-Class Free-Response Analysis

Essay

Major Essay #1: What is the key message Gabriel Garcia Marquez is communicating in his novel?


Quizzes (fact-based) on the novel

Quizzes on the apostrophe

(possessives and contractions)

Classroom Discussions

A Graphic Organizer depicting

the characteristics of a socialist

society and a capitalist society

Personal Response Journal

paragraphs



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Assessment

What does it mean to be

"bourgeois" and "reactionary" in

Mao's revolutionary China?

The Study of Literature

What is a "Canon of Literature"?

The Western Canon

The World Canon

October

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Assessment Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Unit Questions

1. How do we establish a balance between individual human freedom

and collective security and welfare?

2. What are the consequences of (political/economic/social/religious)

revolution? 3. What are the different advantages

and disadvantages of living in a liberal

Western state and in a socialist/communist state?

4. When is education liberating, and when is it repressive?

5. What is a "Canon of Literature?"

Brief history of the People’s

Republic of China & Mao

Zedong’s Cultural Revolution

The differences between capitalism and

socialism/communism,

democracy and communism

Key political & cultural

terminology: Western cultural values, bourgeois, proletariat, re-education, propaganda.

The Western Canon (including

Honore Balzac & others) & the

World Canon.

Identify and interpret an

author’s and a character’s Point of View.

Understand and explain literary

Summarize clearly in paragraph

form (using the Topic-Context-

Evidence-Commentary Paragraph

format) Dai Sijie’s opinion about

the impact Mao Zedong’s

revolution had on China.

Summarize in a 100-word

paragraph the Chinese

Revolution 1949-1976.

Read a history text to understand

the historical background of a

novel.

Analyze in classroom discussions

Balzac & the Little Chinese

Seamstress to discern the

author’s purpose and the author’s

message. Develop an argument

(thesis) in a formal composition

with supporting evidence in a 4-5

paragraph essay.

Create a concept map/graphic

organizer

Summative

Summaries of others' ideas in

paragraph-length compositions

Analytical essay based on the

novel's themes and its historical

context.

Structured classroom discussions

Free-Response Essay Exam

Quizzes

Other Evidence (Formative)

Informal Class Discussions

Graphic Organizers (Venn

diagrams, concept maps)

Notebooks



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Assessment techniques of IRONY and

SYMBOLISM.

Elements of a romantic love

story and of a Realist novel.

World literature: Origin Stories & Sacred Texts

Essential Questions:

How have humans sough to understand the meaning of their existence?

What has been gained advantages by the written word?

What is lost when oral traditions are written down?

What does it mean that some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations?

Understandings:

Origin Stories reflect ancient peoples’ attempts to explain the origin and purpose of human existence.

Every civilization, every people, has its own origin stories which reflect their understanding of its place in the universe.

Some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations.

The written word has provided humans with a record of its story, its values, its fears, and its aspirations.

The Library is the repository of a culture. Example: Nineveh’s Library.

The Bible is valuable as literature, as historical source, and as sacred text.


Selected Origin Stories from around the



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Assessment world: Popol Vuh (Maya), The Bible: Genesis 1-3 (Creation and the Fall), Genesis 6-11; Ancient Literary Antecedents: Epic of Gilgamesh (the Flood Story)

Sacred Texts: Confucius, The Analects; The Vedas of the Hindus: The Rig Veda; The Buddha; The Koran; Hebrew Scriptures, The New Testament..

Modernization—TV, film, electronic media, internet-- has led to a homogenization of the world’s stories.

Periodization in Literature: Ancient, Medieval, European Renaissance & Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Magical Realism

The Mystery of the World: Sacred Texts & Origin Stories

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Assessment World Literature: Origin Stories & Sacred

Texts


How have humans sough to understand the meaning of their existence?

What has been gained advantages by the written word?

What is lost when oral traditions are written down?

What does it mean that some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations?



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Assessment Understandings:

Origin Stories reflect ancient peoples’ attempts to explain the origin and purpose of human existence.

Every civilization, every people, has its own origin stories which reflect their understanding of its place in the universe.

Some sacred texts have been borrowed from older civilizations.

The written word has provided humans with a record of its story, its values, its fears, and its aspirations.

The Library is the repository of a culture. Example: Nineveh’s Library.

The Bible is valuable as literature, as historical source, and as sacred text.


Selected Origin Stories from around the world: Popol Vuh (Maya), The Bible: Genesis 1-3 (Creation and the Fall), Genesis 6-11; Ancient Literary Antecedents: Epic of Gilgamesh (the Flood Story)

Sacred Texts: Confucius, The Analects; The Vedas of the Hindus: The Rig Veda; The Buddha; The Koran; Hebrew Scriptures, The New Testament..

Modernization—TV, film, electronic media, internet-- has led to a homogenization of the world’s stories.

Periodization in Literature: Ancient, Medieval, European Renaissance & Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Magical Realism



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The Mystery of the World: Sacred Texts & Origin Stories

November

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Assessment Nationalism, Just War, and Terrorism:

Israel & Palestine


What is the fairest solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?Is terrorism ever justifiable?Is there such a thing as a “just war”?

Understandings:

Nationalism

The Zionist movement

War has deep, sometimes devastating consequences for combatants and civilians, especially refugees

“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”

“History presents facts, while fiction can present truth.”

Historical fiction can communicate truths that address broad issues as well as personal ones

Memoirs (nonfiction) provide insights by focusing on the experiences of “average” individuals.

Political conflicts like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict share common causes,


Summarize opposing viewpoints and present a convincing argument for either side of the argument.

Analyze a novel’s character using the both the story’s plot and historical facts.

Analyze issues using the PERSIAN approach (Political-Economic-Religious-Social-Intellectual-Artistic)

Write notes summarizing information accurately

Draw a concept map depicting an issue

Write an argumentative essay using literary and historical evidence

Performance Tasks:

An argumentative Essay—taking one side

of three positions on the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict.

Character analysis essay

Concept Maps/Graphic Organizers

depicting the two sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Essay exams on Dawn and Tasting the Sky

Other Evidence:

Reading Comprehension Quizzes

Vocabulary Quizzes

Punctuation Quizzes

Cornell Method of Note-Taking



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Assessment common responses and follow similar patterns.


The history of the birth of Israel and the ensuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Zionism

The Palestinian Diaspora & Arab Nationalism

Political conflicts like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict share common causes, common responses and follow similar patterns.

Fiction can effectively communicate “truth,” sometimes more effectively than history/nonfiction

How a memoir differs from an autobiography

Character analysis

Vocabulary

Punctuation

Reading Guides

December

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Assessment The Importance of Homer: The Iliad

and The Odyssey

Essential Questions: Who was Homer? Why is Homer considered one of the most important writers in the history of the world? Why do teachers of Classics believe “A formal education is impossible without reference to Homer’s work”?


Recall key facts in Homer’s works and Homer’s importance to literature

Identify elements of a story’s plot

Identify major themes (in Homer’s

Performance Tasks:

Character Analysis essay: comparing Homer’s characters to other characters in literature

Analysis: identifying parallel plot lines in other great works of literature using



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Understandings:

Iliad & Odyssey are the most influential stories in Western Literature

“A formal education is impossible without reference to Homer’s work.”

The ancient city of Troy existed. The Iliad is a story rooted in at least some historical fact.


The “Biography” of Homer: the tradition of the Bard

Iliad & Odyssey’s legacy in Western Literature: importance to history & literature

Epic poetry as a literary form

Geography of Greece, Asia Minor, & the eastern Mediterranean

The story of the creation of Iliad and Odyssey

Basic plots of Iliad & Odyssey

Key characters in the Iliad: Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, Paris, Helen, Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite

Key characters in the Odyssey: Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope, Athena, Poseidon, Zeus

Themes in the Iliad: Glory of War, Impermanence of Human Life

Themes in the Odyssey: Cunning over Strength, the Danger of Temptation

works)

Explain key characters and their importance to the plot

plot-line maps

Unit exam on the themes, motifs, symbols, and characters in the Iliad & Odyssey

Other Evidence:

Concept Maps of themes & plot lines of Iliad and Odyssey

Fact-Based Quizzes

Classroom discussions/reflection

Preparatory work for Essay (notes, outline, rough draft)



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January

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Assessment Ancient Rome & Shakespeare’s Julius

Caesar

Essential Questions: How does Shakespeare develop his tragic heroic protagonist? How does tragic flaw lead to the character's demise? What are the differences between a productive and an unproductive epiphany? When is ambition a virtue? When is it a vice? How are trust and betrayal key components in an ambitious person’s quest for power?

Understandings:

“A man cannot become a hero until he sees the roots of his own downfall.” –Artisotle

The importance of William Shakespeare to Western and World literature cannot be overstated.

A tragic hero is a character (protagonist) who falls from great height; a flaw in the character of the protagonist brings the protagonist to ruin

Politics (of Ancient Rome) are a mirror for contemporary readers to see their own government’s political power struggles

Shakespeare was a genius.

Shakespeare’s tragedies follow a


Read and interpret the language of Shakespeare

Analyze a key character in Julius Caesar

Identify and explain main themes

Identify, explain, and interpret key symbols and motifs

Draw connections between political ambition as portrayed in Julius Caesar and as occurs in our world today

Identify an example of a tragic hero in history using Shakespeare’s tragic hero model as a template

Performance Tasks

Analysis exam (free-write) on characters,

themes, motifs, and symbols in Julius

Caesar

Write an analytical essay about an

actual “tragic hero” in history following Shakespeare’s template

Student visual & oral presentations on famous examples of ambition, rhetoric, power, fate & free will—and the results of those qualities

Other Evidence:

Fact-based quizzes on Ancient Roman

history; on plot and characters of Julius

Caesar; on William Shakespeare; on

Virgil, Cicero, Pliny the Younger

Formative assignments: plot lines,

graphic organizer for characters’

relationships



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Assessment pattern that include key elements

Ancient Rome’s intellectual contributions have informed Western literature, philosophy, & politics for 2,000 years


Biography and importance of William Shakespeare

Background information to The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Stages of Shakespeare’s “tragic hero”

The major themes found in Julius Caesar— Fate versus Free Will, Public Self vs Private Self, Misinterpretations & Misreadings, Inflexibility vs Compromise

Importance of analyzing key characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Political Problems of the Roman Republic ca 60-44 BCE

Politics of Ancient Rome served as a metaphor for Shakespeare to highlight Elizabethan England’s own challenges of kingship

The importance of Cicero and Virgil (The Aeneid)

Pliny the Younger, The Eruption of Vesuvius

The cultural and imperial dominance of Ancient Rome (“Pompeii: The Key to Roman Life,” from Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History)

Formative: in-class discussions

Formative: Spoken group performances of excerpts of Julius Caesar

February



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Assessment Overview of Literary Epochs & Classic

Works

Essential Questions: How can each literary era be seen as a reaction to its immediate preceding era? What makes a literary work endure as a classic How does history affect literature? What is the rhetorical effect of satire? Why is the term “Gothic” associated with Romanticism? What makes a work “Realist?” What social & industrial changes inspired the advent of Modernism?

Understandings:

Literary works are categorized as belonging to particular historical eras

The times affect literature, and literature reflects the times.

The world’s great works reflect groundbreaking approaches to literature as well as reveal eternal truths


The European Dark Ages (476-1350) & Song of Roland, Chretien de Troyes - The Grail, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Renaissance (1350–1650): Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, The Inferno, Petrarch, Laura, Cervantes, Don Quixote

Rationalism & the Age of Enlightenment, 1700-1800: John Milton, Paradise Los, Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal (satire)

The Romantic Era, 1790-1850

Sounds of Poetry: Alliteration, Assonance,


Identify elements of poetry-- Alliteration, Assonance, Rhythm, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia

Explain the various literary eras in Western and Modern world Literature.

Identify the key major works of World Literature and explain why they are considered classics.

Taking notes (lecture and reading) following the Cornell Method

Performance Tasks:

Collage Encapsulating the Themes, Symbolism, Imagery, and Motifs in All Quiet on the western Front

Short Free-response quizzes

Free-response essay examination

Creation of an original poem using poetic techniques

Other Evidence:

Quizzes

Cornell Method Notes



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Assessment Rhythm, Rhyme, Onomatopoeia

Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven, Annabel Lee

Realism, 1850-1914

The Short Story Form & Character Development: Anton Chekov, “Vanka,” Fyodor Dostyevsky, “The Mysterious Visitor,” from The Brothers Karamazov,

Modernism, 1914-1945

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Modernism & All Quiet on the Western Front


What is Modernism?

What characterizes Modernist literature?

What forces created Modernism?

Why was World War I so different from all wars that came before it? How did those factors contribute to the rise of Modernism?

How is All Quiet on the Western Front representative of Modernist literature?

Understandings:

Modernism was a distinct change in thought, behavior, and cultural production beginning sometime in the late nineteenth century and coming to full fruition sometime around the World War II, characterized by the reexamination of existence from every possible angle.

A broad literary & cultural movement that spanned all of the arts & spilled into politics and philosophy. Its roots are in the rapidly changing technology of the late nineteenth century and in the theories of such late nineteenth-century

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Identify and analyze elements of modernist literature, poetry, art.

Compose analytical essays in-class

Develop a position and compose a written argument

Apply (Transfer) principles of Modernism to identify and evaluate how those elements are manifested in different art forms.

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Performance Tasks:

Collage: Themes, Symbols, Imagery, Motifs of All Quiet on the Western Front

Analytical compositions (in-class)

Argumentative Essay (in-class)

Compose original free-verse poetry

A Concept Map for Modernism



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Assessment thinkers as Freud, Marx, Darwin, & Nietzsche.

The movement’s concerns were with the accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness. The movement’s concerns were with the accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness.

Open form and free verse are distinguishing characteristics of modernist poetry.

“The Jazz Age” (1918-1929) an especially productive period of modernist literature immortalized by Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, which describes the decadence and sexual freedom of the post-World War I generation.


Modernism (1890–1945): the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War I period.

“The Lost Generation”--coined by Gertrude Stein--refers to those artists of the 1920s who had become disillusioned with America and lived as ex-patriates in Europe.

The Roots of Modernism—a reaction against Realism and a reflection of the rapid changes in modern society. Freud, Marx, Nietszche, Einstein.

Modernist Art: new types of paints and other materials, in expressing feelings and ideas, in creating abstractions and fantasies, rather than representing what is real.

Elements of Modernist Literature: radical experiments with form: poets like Pound and Eliot working in free verse, & novelists like Joyce, Woolf, & Stein experimenting with stream of consciousness & elaborate language games; Open form & free verse poetry.

Major Modernist Writers & Poets: T. S. Elliot (The Waste Land), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce (Finnegan’s Wake, Ulysses).

The experiences of soldiers on the Western Front of WWI by reading & studying Erich

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Assessment Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front

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