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Performance-Based

Assessment

Independent

Learning

Performance Task

Performance Task

Sonnet 12,

Sonnet 60, Sonnet

73 / Sonnet 32 /

Sonnet 75

from The

Naked Babe

and the Cloak

of Manliness /

from MacBeth

Introduce

Small-Group Learning

Macbeth Act V media

Introduce

Independent Learning

TRADE BOOKS

Julius Caesar: Act 5

King Lear: Act 5

TRADE BOOKS

Julius Caesar: Acts 3–4

King Lear: Acts 3–4

Suggested Trade Books

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Lexile: 1320

Roman senators, driven both by fear of tyranny and by ambition,

assassinate Julius Caesar and attempt to survive the aftermath.

Connection to Essential Question

Brutus’s reverence for an ancestor who defeated the tyrant

Tarquin is among the reasons he decides he must slay Caesar

before it is too late. Caesar, meanwhile, ignores a prophecy of his

assassination. These characters are often driven by motivations

that resonate with the Essential Question: How do our attitudes

towards the past and future shape our actions?

King Lear

William Shakespeare

Lexile: 1330

The elderly king tries to divide his kingdom among his daughters,

and misunderstands which of them truly love him; tragedy

ensues.

Connection to Essential Question

Regan and Goneril care little about what someone has done

in the past if he can do nothing for them in the future. Both

of them cruelly turn out their own father, disconnecting their

actions from the past entirely, an unusual and vicious attitude

that helps highlight the importance of the Essential Question:

How do our attitudes towards the past and future shape our

actions?

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