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Course Big Questions Course Big Questions and Expectationsand Expectations

By Ms. BokpeBy Ms. Bokpe

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Course Big Questions:Course Big Questions:

1. What is the difference between 1. What is the difference between appearance and reality?appearance and reality?

2. How does our society view tradition and 2. How does our society view tradition and revolution?revolution?

3. Is rebellion an important act?3. Is rebellion an important act? 4. How does revenge function as 4. How does revenge function as

motivation within literature?motivation within literature?

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Course Big Questions:Course Big Questions:

5. What is the significance of ambition to 5. What is the significance of ambition to characterization?characterization?

6. What is the role of fate and choice?6. What is the role of fate and choice? 7. How do authors represent and critique 7. How do authors represent and critique

gender roles?gender roles? 8. What is the difference between 8. What is the difference between

appearance and reality?appearance and reality?

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Macbeth Unit ExpectationsMacbeth Unit Expectations

Terms:Terms: tragedy, adaptation/modernization, tragedy, adaptation/modernization, theme, motiftheme, motif

Skills:Skills: quote analysis (technique and quote analysis (technique and implication), understanding the impact of implication), understanding the impact of adaptation, creative adaptation, motif and adaptation, creative adaptation, motif and theme tracking, film analysis, theme tracking, film analysis,

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Course Expectations: Reading and Course Expectations: Reading and Literature StudiesLiterature Studies

By the end of this course, students will:By the end of this course, students will: 1. 1. Reading for Meaning:Reading for Meaning: read and demonstrate read and demonstrate

an understanding of a variety of literary, an understanding of a variety of literary, informational, and graphic texts, using a range informational, and graphic texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning; of strategies to construct meaning;

2. 2. Understanding Form and Style:Understanding Form and Style: recognize a recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning; how they help communicate meaning;

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Reading and Literature Studies:Reading and Literature Studies:

3. 3. Reading With Fluency:Reading With Fluency: use knowledge use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read of words and cueing systems to read fluently; fluently;

4. 4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies:Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading. during, and after reading.

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WRITINGWRITING By the end of this course, students will:By the end of this course, students will: 1. 1. Developing and Organizing Content:Developing and Organizing Content:

generate, gather, and organize ideas and generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and information to write for an intended purpose and audience; audience;

2. 2. Using Knowledge of Form and Style:Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary, revise their writing, using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and elements appropriate for the purpose and audience; audience;

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Writing:Writing: 3. 3. Applying Knowledge of Conventions:Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use use

editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively; and present their work effectively;

4. 4. Reflecting on Skills and StrategiesReflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on : reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing most helpful at different stages in the writing process. process.

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ORAL COMMUNICATIONORAL COMMUNICATION By the end of this course, students will:By the end of this course, students will: 1. 1. Listening to UnderstandListening to Understand: listen in order to : listen in order to

understand and respond appropriately in a understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes; variety of situations for a variety of purposes;

2. 2. Speaking to CommunicateSpeaking to Communicate: use speaking : use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes; variety of purposes;

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Oral CommunicationOral Communication

3. 3. Reflecting on Skills and StrategiesReflecting on Skills and Strategies: : reflect on and identify their strengths as reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication found most helpful in oral communication situations. situations.

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Media StudiesMedia Studies By the end of this course, students will:By the end of this course, students will: 1. 1. Understanding Media Texts:Understanding Media Texts:

demonstrate an understanding of a variety demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts; of media texts;

2. 2. Understanding Media Forms, Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques:Conventions, and Techniques: identify identify some media forms and explain how the some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning; with them are used to create meaning;

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Media Studies:Media Studies:

3. 3. Creating Media Texts:Creating Media Texts: create a variety create a variety of media texts for different purposes and of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;conventions, and techniques;

4. 4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies:Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement improvement