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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
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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
- The Naked Babe and the Cloak
Independent
Learning
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