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Performance-Based

Assessment

Independent

Learning

Performance Task

On Seeing

England for the

First Time

XXIII from

Midsummer

Media: Passenger

Manifest for the MV

Empire Windrush

Shakespeare’s

Sister

from The Worms of the Earth

Against the Lions

Introduce

Independent Learning

TRADE BOOKS

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s

Court: Chapters 40–

The Importance of Being Earnest: Act 3

Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 56–

TRADE BOOKS

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s

Court: Chapters 26–

The Importance of Being Earnest: Act 2

Pride and Prejudice: Chapters 36–

Suggested Trade Books

A Connecticut Yankee in

King Arthur’s Court

Mark Twain

Lexile: 1080

An engineer is transported back in time

to medieval England, where he attempts

to reform their society with modern

science and ideas.

Connection to

Essential Question

Hank realizes that he cannot simply

convince people that the superstitions

they have known all their lives are

wrong. Instead, he exploits these beliefs.

However, he begins to secretly educate

people in science, hoping to change

society gradually from within. The story

presents one answer to the Essential

Question: How do people come to have

different views of society?

The Importance of Being

Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Lexile: 1390

In this comedy of manners two young

gentlemen attempt to marry their loved

ones and are held back by lies they’ve

told.

Connection to

Essential Question

The play’s rich characters have leeway to

develop ideas that would be extremely

peculiar to ordinary people. Their idleness

provides an answer to the Essential

Question: How do people come to have

different views of society?

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Lexile: 1100

The Bennets attempt to get their

daughters married off—particularly the

witty and acid-tongued Elizabeth.

Connection to

Essential Question

Austen’s biting, clever social commentary

took English society of the time down

a peg—and has resounded ever since.

Not only does the text discuss the values

and ideas about society of the time, it

considers the Essential Question: How do

people come to have different views of

societ y?

Introduce

Small-Group

Learning

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