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Pacing Plan

WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING

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OVERVIEW: SMALL-GROUP LEARNING

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How do our attitudes toward the

past and future shape our actions?

As you read these selections, work with your group to explore this question.

From Text to Topic Renaissance writers, whose works span the fourteenth

to the seventeenth centuries, shared a passionate interest in ancient cultures

and civilizations. This interest bore fruit in writings that explored a multitude of

questions related to how human beings should govern themselves and what their

relationship should be with the natural world, two issues seen in The Tragedy of

Macbeth. Amid dramatic shifts in leadership, religion, and worldview, Renaissance

writers such as William Shakespeare created exciting literary works that challenged

readers’ established ideas. Centuries later, critics Cleanth Brooks and Frank Kermode

explored how Shakespeare and his contemporaries shaped the past to meet their

dramatic needs. As you read, consider what these selections show about how

attitudes toward the past and the future shape how we act in the present.

Small-Group Learning Strategies

Throughout your life, in school, in your community, and in your career, you will

continue to develop strategies when you work in teams. Use these strategies during

Small-Group Learning. Add ideas of your own for each step.

STRATEGY ACTION PLAN

Prepare • Complete your assignments so that you are prepared for group work.

• Organize your thinking so that you can contribute to your group’s discussions.


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Participate fully • Make eye contact to signal that you are listening and taking in what is being said.

• Use text evidence when making a point.


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Support others • Build off ideas from others in your group.

• Invite others who have not yet spoken to do so.


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Clarify • Paraphrase the ideas of others to ensure that your understanding is correct.

• Ask follow-up questions.


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OVERVIEW

SMALL-GROUP LEARNING

How do our attitudes toward

the past and future shape our

actions?

Engage students in discussion about why

Shakespeare’s works are still famous even though

they were written over hundreds of years ago.

During Small-Group Learning, students will read

selections from Renaissance writers about how

the past and future affect our actions.

Small-Group Learning

Strategies

Review the Learning Strategies with students and

explain that as they work through Small-Group

Learning they will develop strategies to work in

small-group environments.

• Have students watch the video on Small-Group
  Learning Strategies.


• A video on this topic is available online in the
  Professional Development Center.
  You may wish to discuss some action items to add
  to the chart as a class before students complete it
  on their own. For example, for “Participate fully,”
  you might solicit the following from students:


• Offer suggestions to help your group.


• Compare notes with others in your group.

Block Scheduling

Each day in this Pacing Plan represents a

40–50 minute class period. Teachers using

block scheduling may combine days to reflect

their class schedule. In addition, teachers may

revise pacing to differentiate and support core

instruction by integrating components and

resources as students require.

Unit

Introduction

Historical

Perspectives

The Tragedy of

Macbeth, Act I

The Tragedy of

Macbeth, Act II

The Tragedy of

Macbeth, Act IV

The Tragedy of

Macbeth, Act V

Media: The

Tragedy of

Macbeth,

Act V, Scene i

The Tragedy

of Macbeth,

Act III

Introduce

Whole-Class

Learning

Performance Task

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