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UNIT INTRODUCTION

PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT

Argument: Response to Literature and TV Commentary

PROMPT:

What is the relationship of human beings to time?

UNIT 3

LAUNCH TEXT

ARGUMENT MODEL

Better Never to Have

Met at All

ESSENTIAL

QUESTION:

How do our attitudes toward the

past and future shape our actions?

COMPARE

SMALL-GROUP

LEARNING

INDEPENDENT

LEARNING

DRAMA

from Oedipus Rex

Sophocles, translated by

David Grene

POETRY COLLECTION 2

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Why Brownlee Left

Paul Muldoon

Man’s Short Life and

Foolish Ambition

Margaret Cavendish,

Duchess of Newcastle

MEDIA: GRAPHIC NOVEL

from Macbeth: The

Graphic Novel

William Shakespeare,

illustrated by John

Haward; script adapted by

John McDonald

LITERARY CRITICISM

from The Naked Babe

and the Cloak of

Manliness

from The Well Wrought Urn

Cleanth Brooks

from Macbeth

from Shakespeare’s Language

Frank Kermode

POETRY COLLECTION 1

Sonnet 12

Sonnet 60

Sonnet 73

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 32

Mary Wroth

Sonnet 75

Edmund Spenser

MEDIA: AUDIO PERFORMANCE

The Tragedy of

Macbeth, Act V,

Scene i

L.A. Theatre

Works

The Tragedy of

Macbeth, Act V,

Scene i

LibriVox

ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA

The Tragedy of

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Act I

MEDIA CONNECTION:

Macbeth’s Early

Motivation

Act II

Act III

Act IV

Act V

MEDIA CONNECTION: The Darkness

in Macbeth’s Human Characters

WHOLE-CLASS

LEARNING

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS:

Write an Argument

PERFORMANCE TASK

SPEAkING AND LISTENING FOCUS:

Present an Argument

PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Evidence for an Argument

SHORT STORY

The Lagoon

Joseph Conrad

SCIENCE ARTICLES

What’s Your Time

Perspective?

Jane Collingwood

Does Time Pass?

Peter Dizikes

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Focus Period:

1485–

Renaissance and

Reformation: A

Changing England

LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Literary History

The Tragedy of Macbeth

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Digital

perspectives Audio Video Document Annotation

Highlights

EL

Highlights

Online

Assessment

How do our attitudes toward

the past and future shape

our actions?

Introduce the Essential Question and point out

that students will respond to related prompts.

•   Whole-Class Learning In what ways does

Macbeth attempt to control the future and to

bury the past?

•   Small-Group Learning Should literature

of the past be rewritten into present-day

language for today’s readers?

•   Performance-Based   Assessment What is the

relationship of human beings to time?

Using Trade Books

Refer to the Teaching with Trade Books

section in this book or online in the Interactive

Teacher’s Edition for suggestions on how to

incorporate the following thematically-related

novels into this unit.

•   Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

•   King Lear by William Shakespeare

Current Perspectives

To increase student engagement, search

online for stories on how our attitudes about

the past and future shape our actions, and

invite your students to recommend stories

they find. Always preview content before

sharing it with your class.

•   Article:    Shakespeare’s   Evolving^

Attitudes   Towards Women   (BBC)

An article about William Shakespeare’s

depictions of female characters

•   Video:  Hip-Hop &   Shakespeare?    Akala^

at  TEDxAldeburgh   (TECxAldeburgh)

A talk about the way that Shakespeare

and hip-hop both are related to language

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Performance-Based

Assessment

Performance

Task

Introduce

Independent

Learning

Introduce

Small-Group

Learning

• Sonnet 12 • Sonnet 60 • Sonnet 73


• Sonnet 32


• Sonnet 75
  
  
  • The Naked Babe and the Cloak
    of Manliness
  
  
  • Macbeth
  
  
  
  

Independent

Learning

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