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__“It’s Not Just M____e”: Dealing with Conflict in Self and Others__

Big Idea: Conflict

Imtiaz Alam Uriah Renzetti

SECTION 1: TITLE AND RATIONALE Many themes exist when considering the breadth of texts we have selected for our unit plan. Hamlet has countless themes, while Thirteen Reasons Why and Vanish have more specific, definite themes. Keeping our student profile from Lancaster Catholic High School at the forefront, we wanted to emphasize how each student has a different background story about their life. Most of these stories surrounded their family live and how it affected their school, social life, and plans for the future. For example, Cecilio appears to have parental support for the future, but he does not care about academics or trying to make something of his athletic talent on the basketball court. For more, see Section 2: Class Profiles and Introductory Week. Backgrounds like this prompted us to focus on the idea of family relationships. Our big idea, conflict, can be found almost anywhere. What does conflict look like within the context of each student’s personal life? We attempt to tackle that kind of question in our unit plan. We found a common theme in our classroom and translated it directly into our unit plan. This is how we make our themes relevant to the lives of our students.
 * Themes **

Another theme we decided to focus on for the unit plan was revenge. In keeping with our big idea of conflict, we wanted to tie together Hamlet with Thirteen Reasons Why, which are the two main texts for our unit plan. In doing so, we are drawing connections between the texts that dive into the character depth of Hamlet and Hannah, respectively. We will discuss how revenge typically starts with a conflict that rubs someone the wrong way. Typically, someone needs to be betrayed in order for revenge to take place. Then, revenge festers in the mind and is somehow acted upon. We will use details and examples from both texts and allow our students to grapple with their own ideas of revenge. Juniors in high school are still working on practicing self control. It is our hope that we can use Hamlet and Hannah as models for demonstrating how revenge can be acted upon in different ways, while still emphasizing that students can make their own decisions.

We understand that with a text as rich and full as Hamlet we cannot “cover” everything. But that is not our goal. We believe Hamlet is an important text for students to interact with by exploring a few areas. We chose conflict as our big idea because it is a universal experience. Since literature reflects life, conflict is the heart of narratives. With this perspective, we chose to explore revenge and relationships as areas of conflict in life and Hamlet. Conflict involves at least two people. We will focus on the characters in Hamlet and Thirteen Reasons Why and how their personalities and motivations act and react to conflict. If we understand those persons whom we are in conflict, resolution may come sooner. Because we feel strongly about bringing students to this understanding, we have created the Hamlet character blog project. Through this project, students will put themselves in the figurative shoes of a character and hopefully see more than one side to the story.
 * Big Understandings **

Because Shakespeare can be a horror to some students for a variety of reasons, we crafted a few understandings that will give students the confidence to tackle a sometimes difficult area of the high school English curriculum. First, we want students to be able to read and understand Elizabethan language. That is our first and possibly toughest goal. To help us in this goal, we are giving students many opportunities to act out the language of Shakespeare. This performance-based approach to learning Shakespeare has been proven effective and fun. For those students who are not engaged or are struggling readers, we have provided different forms of Hamlet to scaffold learning. This includes a graphic novel and film versions. Students need to understand how the medium changes the text. This will expand students’ perception of Shakespeare, and it will show them the universal and timeless core of the play. To act as a hook and comparative text, Thirteen Reasons Why will act as a companion text that will reinforce, enhance, and broaden the class’s learning of these understandings.

 Hamlet - William Shakespeare  Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher  Hamlet - Kenneth Branaugh film (excerpts)  Hamlet - No Fear Shakespeare graphic novel  “Vanish” - Evan Ratliff
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**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our Big Idea revolves around dealing with conflict within ourselves and others. The conflicts we will focus on relate to revenge and family relationships. We will explore how these three themes are encountered within humans as individuals. How we encounter these themes as individuals directly affects how we interact with them in relation to others. Our perceptions of themes can conflict with the perceptions of others. With our themes in mind, we will show how conflict starts in us and moves out of us. For example, revenge requires a person to be hurt or wronged in order to react.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the thematic focus of the unit (the “Big Idea”)? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The big idea and essential understandings are inherently issues that students can relate to their own lives. Students are living with families when they leave school for the day, so they are certainly dealing with siblings and parents on a regular basis. Students can use the plot and characters in Hamlet as a basis for their everyday lives. We will also dive into the idea of revenge. Teenagers in high school are continuously learning about social settings and how to operate within them. In doing so, they often hurt one another intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes, a reaction is to seek revenge. Our unit plan and lesson plans on Hamlet will explore where revenge comes from and how thoughts turn into action. Students will transfer the understandings and big ideas from Hamlet into their own lives. By relating these two understandings to their own lives, they will find interest, worth, and relevance in our Hamlet unit plan. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are trying to instill in our students a way to critically think about the world around them. In doing so, there is a high probability that our students will discuss their important, life decisions with their family. If there is not explicit discussion, students are implicitly thinking about their family’s reactions to their direction in life. Through our lesson plans, we will make it clear that conflict (our big idea) is not necessarily a “bad” thing. Often, we need to struggle through a situation in order to learn, grow, and achieve something greater. Taking risks improves character and our students’ own morality. Students will be interested in our understandings and themes because we will show them how taking risks, making the not-so-common decisions, and paving their road for their own future are not only encouraged, but often necessary in order to achieve their own definition of success in the future.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why will students be interested? (T) **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sherry, our female student from LCHS, spends almost all of her time outside of school taking care of her siblings. Her father is in and out of jail. While we do not have details on the relationship she has with her father, Sherry can likely relate with Hamlet on not having a father at times. Material from our Unit Plan has a direct correlation with her life. It will be our job to gauge her interest through Hamlet’s life. While Hamlet was slow and methodical, he took risks of his own. In Paul Tough’s New York Times article titled, “What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?” he references Dominic Randolph, the headmaster of Riverdale Country School (an elite private school in the Bronx), “Randolph wants his students to succeed, of course — it’s just that he believes that in order to do so, they first need to learn how to fail.” Of course, we do not hope to set up our students for failure; however, as Tough states, “we all know — on some level, at least — that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.” Hamlet is a character that exhibits hardship and struggles to overcome his problems. Students will undoubtedly experience a difficult life decision in their future. Students will be interested in our Unit Plan because we will help them think about their own life decisions and how their families will help them achieve their goals (or sometimes inhibit them from achieving their goals). Hopefully all of our students will be able to put themselves in Hamlet’s shoes, but specifically there is room for Hamlet to hit deep down with Sherry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not uncommon for high school students to read one play by Shakespeare each year. Hamlet is no exception. Regardless of its popularity or seemingly eternal place in the Literature canon, the universal and timeless big ideas and themes are worth exploring. Some students may intellectually shutdown, claiming reading a play by a "dead white guy" is not worth their time. We will combat this mindset by utilizing a contemporary young adult companion text (Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher) to expand our thematic perspectives. We will also look at visual adaptations of Hamlet, including film and graphic novels. Not only will this hook students into the world of Shakespeare, but it will give us an opportunity to equip our students with the necessary tools, skills, and strategies to increase their media literacy. Students will be able to not only consume media texts, but to critique and create them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do students need to study this? (U) **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eleventh graders are at a cross roads. They are half-way through high school and some are already thinking of what they will do after graduation. They are still teenagers, but they try to think and act like adults at times. At this age, they are “socially minded.” They come to school to hang out with friends, not to learn. Our choice of essential understandings and big idea is driven by what our students are going through right now. Amy Christen’s article titled Transforming the Classroom for Collaborative Learning in the 21st Century discusses ways to connect with students who are products of a new, capricious generation,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why teach this now? (T) **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sitting quietly and passively while taking lecture notes does not come naturally to a student population accustomed to a virtual world of instant messaging, pervasive Internet access and online social networking. If these connected students are to excel in education, their learning environment should mirror the ways in which they engage the world...Instruction must be synchronized more closely with the ways students live and interact outside the classroom.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will aim to make all interaction with students an encounter that engages learning. We will be teaching our unit plan knowing that our students learn best when they feel connected. Not in the sense of smart-phone connected, but connected to the classroom during critical moments of group discussion, presentations, and debate. We owe it to our students to use their time wisely, especially when there are constant distractions in our increasingly technological world.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conflict’s existence is as certain as the sun rising in the east every morning. Our students need to learn how to deal with internal conflicts, as they form their identities as humans, students, siblings, children, etc. They also need to understand positive ways of handling conflict with others. Our unit plan will tackle this idea of conflict in multiple ways. The understandings surrounding revenge and family relationships encompass issues that students are dealing with today. For instance, Cecilio from LCHS has issues with his family. Apparently, Cecilio has a family life that he should not be running from, yet he does not respond well to his parents. It filters into the classroom as he lets Martin, the “ringleader,” dictate how much, if at all, his group of friends will engage in learning activities. Stemming back to his family, Cecilio can use anecdotes and lessons from Hamlet and 13 Reasons Why to relate to his own life. We teach this now because after this year, the dynamic of Cecilio’s family life will change. Will Cecilio stay at home and try to find a job? It is evident he will not use his basketball skills to further his education. His family will play a larger part in his life than he probably expects. Cecilio’s English teacher is not optimistic that he will graduate. Shakespeare is universal, relevant, and timeless. Students will be pleasantly surprised when they are able to apply lessons from English class to their own lives.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 2: CLASS PROFILES AND INTRODUCTORY WEEK

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Profiles

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(U) Sherry is an eleventh grade girl who is on the brink of not graduating. She nearly has all the credits required, but has failed two classes that put her in jeopardy of not moving on. She has taken one or two online classes to catch up. She has no plans for the future. At home she is the primary caregiver for her two younger brothers. This takes up most of her time. Her father has been in and out of jail and her mom works during the evenings. She believes that she will continue the same routine after she graduates high school.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(U) Tanner is an eleventh grade boy who is gifted in math. He enjoys it enough to tutor fellow classmates in calculus. He is willing to help in class. He does well in English and is generally a well-rounded, achieving student. Home life is positive. Both parents have well-paying jobs. He has plans to go to college to study mechanical engineering.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(T) Cecilio is a senior boy who has a slim chance of graduating from high school. He is of Hispanic origin and plays basketball for his high school. His plans for the future are uncertain and his current academic achievement is less than desirable. Also, he is not utilizing his talents as a basketball player to help him move beyond high school. His friends tease him in class, “how are you going to speak on a job interview when you can’t even talk to a college coach about basketball?” His family life is surprisingly stable. Both of his parents appear to show support for his progress in school and beyond; however, Cecilio does not view school as a priority.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(T) Martin is a senior boy who acts as the “ring leader” for his group of friends. His friends are notoriously known in school as “the bad kids.” Martin does not have plans for after high school. This past summer, Martin left his home and roamed the streets of Lancaster, sleeping on friend’s couches. In class, he is constantly talking and interrupting his teachers. One teacher suggested to Martin’s mother that Martin be tested for ADHD. Martin was prescribed medication for ADHD, but stopped taking it after a few doses. His mother does not ask him or make him take his medication because, “Martin does not want to.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 3: UNIT GOALS AND UNDERSTANDINGS

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Idea: Conflict **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Understandings **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand how the process of revenge can play out in their personal lives. Conflict, either inner or from the external environment, can be a catalyst for revenge. The idea of revenge begins in the mind and can sometimes be expressed in a self-detrimental or outwardly harmful fashion. For example, Hamlet is an extreme introvert. During his contemplative acts/scenes in the play, he is stewing over the idea of revenge. This can serve as a teachable moment surrounding revenge and the crossroads humans come to when working through inner and outer conflict. In conjunction with Hamlet’s quest for revenge, Hannah from 13 Reasons Why begins with her own version of revenge through suicide. Hannah states at the beginning of the book, “I hope you’re ready, because I’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you’re listening to these tapes, you’re one of the reasons why.” While the stories are inversely told (In Hamlet, we start with the conflict and work toward revenge. In 13 Reasons Why, we start with revenge and work backwards to determine the conflict), the idea of initial conflict playing out as revenge are evident. Hannah says, “When you’re done listening to all thirteen sides....rewind the tapes, put them back in the box, and pass them on to whoever follows your little tale. And you lucky number thirteen, you can take the tapes straight to hell. Depending on your religion, maybe I’ll see you there.” First and foremost, we see revenge being dealt from Hannah. Both Hamlet and 13 Reasons Why provide the foundation for students understanding revenge and how it relates to our Big Idea of Conflict.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand the importance of defining and framing boundaries with family relationships. When dealing with family members and making decisions about one’s own life, often times our own expectations differ from our parents and siblings. We have many examples that we can pull from our unit plan texts, but we need to emphasize the importance of family relationship dynamics in the context of students’ own lives. Inherently, there is an external conflict when a student has a disagreement regarding a life decision. For example, deciding on which college he or she should attend can be a source of frustration and irritation for parents and students alike. While Hamlet may not have decided on which college he should attend during the play, he did have to make difficult decisions that went against decisions his mother would have approved. Actually, he felt so betrayed by his mother that he plotted against his own family. The point of evidencing Hamlet’s difficult decisions will serve as a gateway to let students think about their personal boundaries with family members. For better or worse, the saying, “you can’t choose your family” holds weight. Students will be ahead of the curve in dealing with family members in the future if they can start framing their own relationships with them during high school.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(U) Students will understand how the medium changes the text. Each medium (in our case novels, plays, films, graphic novels) has its own conventions, rules, and approaches to the content. By looking at various adaptations of Hamlet, students will analyze/critique the effects of the medium on the text.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(T) Students will be able to empathize with and understand characters from our main texts at a level where they can write as one of them. After students are given the chance to work through difficult areas in Shakespeare (Elizabethan language, plot structure, character depth, etc.), students will figuratively need to put themselves into the shoes of a Hamlet character. When students begin to write through a character, their personal interpretation of the character will be evidenced. The goal is to use characters from the text and let our students relate and expand upon details, examples, and character depth as it relates to their own lives. A concrete example of our goal to have students write as a character is through the web journal project. We are asking students to tap into their creative outlet and select a different setting for their selected character. In doing so, they must transfer knowledge from the original text, use their own knowledge about our themes, and translate their new understandings through the web journal.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(U) SWBAT understand that acting is a part of everyday life and not limited to theatrical performances. Students act a certain way in front of different groups of people for specific reasons.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(T) Students will be able to read and understand Elizabethan language through Shakespeare. This will be significant for students to understand because they will need to interpret details from Hamlet constantly throughout our unit. Time will be given to provide comparisons between modern language and Elizabethan language. In doing so, students have the opportunity to create their own cues and reminders to help them grasp Shakespeare’s written word. Understanding the language must take place prior to understanding the plot, characters, setting, etc. Our unit may be the first time students will read Shakespeare. We will need to delicately introduce them to the seemingly “foreign” language. Once this hurdle has been leaped, we can dive into further understandings. Understanding the language is a stepping stone for progress with Shakespeare.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential Questions **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the effects of revenge? How does the process start? Who is affected by it?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do family relationships influence decisions in other parts of our lives? What guidelines, principles, values do we consider when making decisions with our families?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What preconceived notions do we have about “what families should look like?”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the “ties that bind” our family relationships? What keeps them together? What would tear them apart?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we understand Elizabethan language? How does reading or watching Shakespeare on film deepen our understanding of Elizabethan language?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Main Texts: Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supplementary Texts: We will use select clips from Kenneth Branaugh’s film adaptation of Hamlet as well as the No Fear Shakespeare graphic novel version. “Vanish”, a short story by Evan Ratliff will bring some of the questions from Hamlet to the technologically saturated 21st century.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 3: ASSESSMENT PLAN

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students usually learn about Shakespeare in its own intellectual box. “Shakespeare should only be read and analyzed to death” is a usually mantra. We’d like to combat this by approaching Shakespeare differently. Hamlet was produced for the stage. Audiences came to see actors recite the Bard’s memorable lines. We should do the same in the classroom. Students will not only read Hamlet, but act it out. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shakespeare is also usually studied on its own. Shakespeare’s plays are still read and produced today because of their timeless themes. We have chosen to connect Hamlet to a young adult contemporary novel to show students how the core ideas of both texts are universal.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand how the process of revenge can play out in their personal lives. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand that acting is a part of everyday life and not limited to theatrical performances. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will frame family relationships in their own lives and also evidence understanding of how revenge can play out in their lives as well. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand and discern a character’s inner conflict, usually by soliloquy. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand how the medium changes the text. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will frame family relationships in their own lives and also evidence understanding of how revenge can play out in their lives as well. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will frame family relationships in their own lives and also evidence understanding of how revenge can play out in their lives as well. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand how the process of revenge can play out in their personal lives. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connection to Goals ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Discussions || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand the importance of defining and framing boundaries with family relationships.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hamlet In Your Own Words || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will be able to read and understand Elizabethan language through Shakespeare. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal Entries / Web Journals || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand how the medium changes the text.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand how the medium changes the text. (We will never assess our students from a drama/performance arts perspective, but we would like to see them bring words to life through acting. We hope to see students making an effort here). ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Map || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will be able to empathize with and understand characters from our main texts at a level where they can write as one of them. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Voicing the Argument || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand that acting is a part of everyday life and not limited to theatrical performances.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Blog / Reflection on Character Blog || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will be able to empathize with and understand characters from our main texts at a level where they can write as one of them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Exit Card || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will be able to read and understand Elizabethan language through Shakespeare.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA Presentation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will be able to empathize with and understand characters from our main texts at a level where they can write as one of them.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“To Be or Not To Be”: Using Web Journals to Explore Characterization ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hamlet Character Journal/Blog Project (U, Summative Assessment 1) **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher Handout **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Title: “To Be or Not to Be”: Using Web Journals to Explore Characterization

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Goals/Objectives: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Develop fiction writing craft <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Show mastery of blogging <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Relate to and understand characters by creatively writing as them

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Common Core Standards: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 11-12 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">where the text leaves matters uncertain. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as well as other authors.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">understatement). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Writing Standards, Grades 11-12 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(b) Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (d) Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including new arguments or information. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Description: To accompany their reading of Hamlet, students will create an online character journal via Wordpress.com. Students will assume the role and create a blog responding to the events of the play. After choosing a character, students will determine which setting they will put him/her. For example, a student could make Hamlet a goth teenager living in New York in the 1990s. The visual content of the blog (font, color scheme, layout, pictures) will also be included in this character development task. Students’ writings will expand the character described in the play by getting in his/her head. Shakespeare only provides dialogue. Students can explore setting and character through their blog posts. They will analyze the original text and create an interpretation. At the end of the unit, students will write a rationale for their online journal.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Plan: During the first or second week of the Hamlet unit, the teacher will introduce the blog journal project to the students. The teacher will walk the students through the Student Handout and check that they understand what is required. The proposal will be due the next day. The teacher will look at the blogs throughout the unit and may post comments if needed. One period in the middle of the unit will be used to go to the computer lab to provide students time to complete their peer review. A few days after the due date for all blog entries, students will turn in their rationale essay. The teacher can give specific feedback on what may be interesting to share in the student’s presentation. Around this time, the teacher will model the presentation and answer questions students have about the creation of theirs. Students will have already acted in front of the class and exercised their “drama muscles” so they should be more comfortable when giving their dramatic reading. The teacher will use the rubric provided below (also included in the student handout) for the project grade.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubric

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing shows significant improvement over time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author writes a few creative “gaps” to the character’s story. The style generally matches the char. and setting. Writing shows improvement over time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author writes “gaps” that partly work with the character, setting, and story. Writing shows little improvement over time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author’s entries lack “gaps” and the character, setting, and story are not cohesive. Writing lacks improvement over time. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CATEGORY || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EXCELLENT (3) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GOOD (2) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (1) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NOT PRESENT (0) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Development || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character has depth and interacts with the setting. He/She shows growth over the course of entries. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character has some depth. He/She fits well in the setting. Char. shows some growth throughout. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character only developed at surface level and/or does not fit in setting. Lacks growth. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character is flat. Existence in setting is not appropriate. No growth shown. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting is well suited for the char. The author uses it to enhance him/her. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting is appropriate for the char. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting lacks connection to char., story, and may appear out of place. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting is inappropriate to character/story and/or lacks depth. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blog Design || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design enhances character. All elements unite to “dress” the char. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design fits the character. Most elements unite to “dress” the char. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design does not fit the character well and/or the elements to not act as a fitting “costume.” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design is unsuitable for character. The elements from a conflicting “costume.” ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Growth/Style || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author writes many creative “gaps” to the character’s story. The style consistently matches the char. and setting.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar, etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog is free of grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog has 1-3 grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog has 4-7 grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog has frequent grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer Review || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students give and receive substantial, thoughtful feedback. The revised entry shows significant improvement and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students give and receive thoughtful feedback. The revised entry shows improvement. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students give and receive little feedback. The revised entry shows little improvement. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students do not exchange feedback. The revised entry lacks improvement or is not posted. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale (x2) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay clearly answers the required questions (#5). The author presents his/her creative thought process in detail. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay answers the required questions (#5). The author presents his/her creative thought process in general terms. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay answers some of the required questions (#5). The author shows parts of his/her creative thought process. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay fails to answer the required questions and/or does not show the author’s creative thought process. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation (Rationale) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student confidently and succinctly shares his/her creative process in time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student confidently and/or succinctly shares his/her creative process, but may go too short/long. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student shares creative process. Nervousness may get the better of him/her. May lack time management. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student lacks clarity and confidence in presentation. Uses time poorly. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation (Reading) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student gives engaging, emotional performance of a well-chosen excerpt on time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student gives engaging and/or emotional performance of a well-chosen excerpt on time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student gives mostly flat performance that has little emotion. Reading may be too long or short. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student fails to give dramatic reading and come prepared. ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Total _/30

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Handout ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shakespeare wrote theatrical plays. His genius was in writing dialogue. It is through that that we learn about characters. To say his characters are fully developed is a stretch. That’s where you come in. As we read Hamlet, you will “fill in the blanks” of one character’s thoughts, emotions, and actions by creating your character’s journal.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the creative writing project, you will <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Choose a character (from the list below) and put him/her in a new setting (time and place) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Create a online journal (via Wordpress.com) for the character and write as him/her <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Do a peer review of a classmate’s blog <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Write a rationale detailing your choice of character, setting, blog appearance, writing style, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Present your blog to the class and give a dramatic reading of one of your entries <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Directions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With this project, you will not only develop your fiction writing craft, but you will also analyze the original text and interpret a character based on the setting you place him/her in. Develop the character’s voice that is based on the Shakespearean dialogue but reflects the setting. Each post should orient readers to when the character is writing in relation to the events of the play. For example, “Last night, I saw my father’s ghost.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character List: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Prince Hamlet <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Ophelia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Claudius <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Gertrude <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Requirements: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Write a brief proposal including your choice of character and the setting in which you will put him/her. Describe your interpretation of the character and his/her place in the setting. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. After receiving teacher approval of your proposal, create an online journal for your character on a Wordpress.com blog. Design the look of your site accordingly. Think of your blog design as your character’s costume. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Write at least 5 entries as your character. Your first entry must introduce the reader to your character and describe the catalyst for why you began writing this journal. The entries should be spaced out throughout the story. (That means you can’t write 5 entries all from Act I and be finished.) Each post should be at least 500 words long. You must get into the character’s head and write with depth and emotion. Go beyond what Shakespeare wrote. Points will be taken off for writing fluff. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. You will be paired with a classmate who has the same character in order to conduct a peer review. First, share your rationales. Then, read each other’s blog and post comments on at least 2 entries. After the review, make a revision of one of the posts your peer commented on. Make sure to create a new entry for this revision; do not simply edit the original. Put “Peer Revision” in the title. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. After reading Hamlet and completing your blog entries, write a 3-5 page reflection on the creation of your blog. Provide a rationale for your choice of character, setting, voice, writing style, and blog design. Explain why it was important for your character to write about what he/she did. Justify why your choice of setting helps the reader learn more about the character. Also share your reflections on the writing experience. What considerations did you have to take into account when writing as a Shakespearean character? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. To conclude our unit, you will give a 2-3 minute presentation showing the class your blog. Briefly discuss your character, setting, and blog design. Then choose an excerpt of a blog post and read it aloud. I expect that you have rehearsed your presentation and that you will balance your time with your blog tour and reading. Hamlet is a dramatic play. Your reading must be dramatic as well! Your voice, face, and body should project emotion. You have a captive audience; engage us! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Important Notes: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. When creating your Wordpress.com blog, make sure to set it as private. Your peer reviewer and I are the only two people who should be able to access your blog. You must give me permission to access your blog when you set it up. Once you have a peer reviewer, make sure to provide him/her access. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. If you would like to add pictures to your blog, do not upload any with people in them. Make sure to show picture source. Use public domain photos. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. When choosing a setting, pick one that you have a solid understanding of and are interested in. The setting should work with the play, not vice versa. Your adaptation should make sense and be believable and appropriate. We are using the blog as a fun and accessible tool for our writing. Do not limit your setting to the 21st century, when blogging is a commonly used technology. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. In the world of Hamlet, you are the only one who has access to this blog. It’s like a digital version of those small paper journals with lock and key. Do not write as if another character can read the blog. For example, Hamlet does not have to worry about blogging his revenge plans for fear of Claudius sneaking in and reading them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Have a print copy of your dramatic reading on your presentation day. You will fail this presentation if you try to give a dramatic reading of the projection screen!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubric

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing shows significant improvement over time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author writes a few creative “gaps” to the character’s story. The style generally matches the char. and setting. Writing shows improvement over time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author writes “gaps” that partly work with the character, setting, and story. Writing shows little improvement over time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author’s entries lack “gaps” and the character, setting, and story are not cohesive. Writing lacks improvement over time. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CATEGORY || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EXCELLENT (3) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GOOD (2) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (1) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NOT PRESENT (0) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Development || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character has depth and interacts with the setting. He/She shows growth over the course of entries. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character has some depth. He/She fits well in the setting. Char. shows some growth throughout. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character only developed at surface level and/or does not fit in setting. Lacks growth. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character is flat. Existence in setting is not appropriate. No growth shown. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting is well suited for the char. The author uses it to enhance him/her. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting is appropriate for the char. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting lacks connection to char., story, and may appear out of place. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Setting is inappropriate to character/story and/or lacks depth. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blog Design || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design enhances character. All elements unite to “dress” the char. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design fits the character. Most elements unite to “dress” the char. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design does not fit the character well and/or the elements to not act as a fitting “costume.” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design is unsuitable for character. The elements from a conflicting “costume.” ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Growth/Style || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The author writes many creative “gaps” to the character’s story. The style consistently matches the char. and setting.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar, etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog is free of grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog has 1-3 grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog has 4-7 grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blog has frequent grammatical, spelling, and conventional errors. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer Review || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students give and receive substantial, thoughtful feedback. The revised entry shows significant improvement and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students give and receive thoughtful feedback. The revised entry shows improvement. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students give and receive little feedback. The revised entry shows little improvement. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students do not exchange feedback. The revised entry lacks improvement or is not posted. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale (x2) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay clearly answers the required questions (#5). The author presents his/her creative thought process in detail. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay answers the required questions (#5). The author presents his/her creative thought process in general terms. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay answers some of the required questions (#5). The author shows parts of his/her creative thought process. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The essay fails to answer the required questions and/or does not show the author’s creative thought process. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation (Rationale) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student confidently and succinctly shares his/her creative process in time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student confidently and/or succinctly shares his/her creative process, but may go too short/long. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student shares creative process. Nervousness may get the better of him/her. May lack time management. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student lacks clarity and confidence in presentation. Uses time poorly. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation (Reading) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student gives engaging, emotional performance of a well-chosen excerpt on time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student gives engaging and/or emotional performance of a well-chosen excerpt on time. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student gives mostly flat performance that has little emotion. Reading may be too long or short. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student fails to give dramatic reading and come prepared. ||

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**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“One Reason Why”: Suicide Prevention PSA Project ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(U, Summative Assessment 2) **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher Handout ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Title: One Reason Why: Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Goals/Objectives: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Develop writing skills for audio/video project script <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Show mastery of creating a short audio/video clip <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Relate to and understand characters by creatively acting and/or speaking as them

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Common Core Standards: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Reading Standards for Literature, Grades 11-12 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">where the text leaves matters uncertain. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as well as other authors.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">understatement). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Writing Standards, Grades 11-12 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(b) Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (d) Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including new arguments or information. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Description: Suicide is a controversial topic today. Too many high schoolers end their lives because of bullying, racism, depression, etc. Some students might not know how to deal with friends who have suicidal tendencies. They probably want to help, but are not properly equipped to do so. This PSA project will help students be prepared for helping people in their sphere of influence. Students will work in groups to produce a radio or TV PSA. It should last approximately 30 seconds. Using 13 Reasons Why as the background for their presentation, students will act as a few of the characters from the novel. They will share where they went wrong in influencing Hannah to commit suicide. They will implore listeners/viewers to not make the same mistakes they did and are encouraged to mention at least one tip from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to make a positive difference. Creating a catch phrase (ex. “Don’t let her get away”) is encouraged. Students will then present their completed PSAs to the class and receive feedback. They will also submit the script along with their PSA file.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment Plan: With two weeks before the end of the unit, the teacher will introduce the PSA project to the students. By this time, the class will have finished reading Thirteen Reasons Why. The teacher will walk the students through the Student Handout and check that they understand what is required. On that day, the teacher will hand out index cards for students to write their top three choices for which character they would like to use for their project. From those results, the teacher will create the groups. It is not important that all thirteen characters are presented; in fact, this is not possible with typical class sizes. Instead, there should be some variety across groups. You may have more than one group working with the same character. Multiple interpretations are catalysts for great discussions! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The next day, the teacher will announce the groups. During this period, the teacher will instruct the group members to come up with a plan. This will include the responsibilities of each member (ex. camera/computer operator, actor, script writer/editor). They will also write a brief (one paragraph) proposal for how they will approach their character and final product. The teacher will monitor the groups’ work in class, answer questions, give feedback, and approval of group proposals. Students will have one or two class periods to work on their PSAs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Each student will be required to create a short one-page handout/guide for the class about suicide prevention. This will be an informal writing project. As per the student handout, this guide should be written to appeal to high-school-aged children. A works cited page must be included with the handout. Students may choose which topic or aspect of the suicide issue they would like to focus on for their handout. Examples may include: how to talk to someone about suicide; the connection between depression and suicide; common misconceptions of suicide; and how to spot the warning signs of suicide. Students will have one class period in the computer lab to research websites and articles for their guide. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> During the last week of the unit, students will present their PSA projects to the class. Students will be expected to give thoughtful feedback to each group and ask questions. Each group will turn in their script and each student will submit his/her suicide research handout. Each student will also turn in a Group Evaluation Form (see Student Handout below). Since the teacher cannot observe every minute of each group’s work, this form will act as a check for equal, meaningful participation among all group members. It will have an affect on the students’ grades. Depending on the class, the teacher may conduct a vote for the top 5 exemplary presentations to post on the class website or other secure online location.

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CATEGORY || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EXCELLENT (3) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GOOD (2) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (1) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NOT PRESENT (0) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Understanding || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows deep understanding of character. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows solid understanding of character. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows surface understanding of character. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows little or no understanding of character. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Acting/Presentation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) fully present char. with emotion, depth, and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) present char. with emotion and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) present char. with some emotion and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) present char. with little or no emotion and thought. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script is properly formatted, free of errors, and uses web tip well. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script is properly formatted, with 1-3 errors, and uses web tip. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script’s format and content have several errors, and poorly uses web tip. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script’s format and content is poor and lacking substance and web tip. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page includes several resources. PSA shows evidence of research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page includes several resources. PSA shows some evidence of research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page includes a few resources. PSA shows little evidence of research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page is absent. PSA shows no sign of research. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Evaluation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student worked well with group members and completed a fair amount of work. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student worked well with group members and completed some of the work. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student did not work well with group members and/or did not complete appropriate amount of work. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student did not work well with group members and did not complete appropriate amount of work. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suicide Handout (Writing) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is tailored to its audience. It is appealing, insightful, easy to read, and has no more than two errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is appropriate for its audience. It is generally easy to read and has 2-4 errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is not written for its audience or has several errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is poorly written and is not suited for the audience. It has several errors. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suicide Handout (Research) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout shows understanding and depth of research. Sources are used well and Works Cited page is properly formatted. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout shows understanding of research. Sources are generally fitting and Works Cited page as only a few errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout shows little understanding of research or lacks sufficient sources. Works Cited page has many errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout lacks understanding of research or lacks sources. Works Cited pages is not formatted and/or does not exist. ||

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">** Student Handout ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduction <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suicide is the core issue of Thirteen Reasons Why. With this problem facing more and more high-schoolers each year, the chances of someone you know dealing with thoughts of suicide are greater. To prepare you for a situation like this, you will prepare a 30 second radio or TV public service announcement (PSA) with a group. You will also create a one-page handout that will act as a brief guide to educating your classmates on various topics and issues related to suicide.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For this PSA project, you will <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Choose a character (other than Clay Jensen) from Thirteen Reasons Why and present him/her in your PSA sharing a tip about suicide prevention (group). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Write a production script for your PSA (group). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Present your final PSA to the class (group). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Submit a Group Evaluation Form (individual). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Write a brief, one-page handout for your class that will give them an overview of a particular issue or question about suicide (individual). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Directions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With this project, you and your group will put yourselves in the shoes of one of the characters from Thirteen Reasons Why. From this perspective, you will write and produce a radio or TV PSA that has this character share his/her reactions to Hannah’s death, what he/she learned, and what the audience should do to prevent others from committing suicide. To accompany this, each of you will create a go-to guide for your class about a particular topic or issue related to suicide. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Requirements: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. On an index card, write your top three choices for which character you would like to use for your PSA. Remember, you may not choose Clay Jensen. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. You will be placed in a group of 3-4 other students who showed interest in this character. As a group, write a short (one paragraph) proposal sharing how you will approach the character and the project. The teacher will come around to approve each group’s proposal. When you have received approval, discuss how each of your will contribute an equal amount to the project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. As a group, you will need to write a script that includes the speech the character gives, along with production notes such as setting, costume, and acting directions/cues. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Rehearse and record your radio or TV PSA. You will have one or two periods to do this in class, but you should plan to spend some time out of class to polish your presentation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Research a specific topic or issue related to suicide. Create a one-page handout for your classmates that will give them an overview of the topic and some tips they can use if they are interacting with someone who may be suicidal. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Submit the Group Evaluation Form to your teacher. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. As a group, present your PSA to the class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Important Notes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· The following are due on the day of your presentation: script, group evaluation form, and suicide handout. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Your PSA should be appropriate for our classroom audience. Any inappropriate content will result in an automatic failing grade for the entire project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· If you are having major issues with your group even after trying to resolve it between yourselves, please come and see me so that it can have the least impact on your project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Since the PSA is a group project, you are expected to contribute equally to its success. Those who are found not to be contributing will lose points. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Your PSA should be approximately 30 seconds long. You have 5 seconds of “wiggle room.” Points will be deducted if the length is outside of those limits. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· I encourage you to pick a topic that interests you for your suicide handout. Is there a question about suicide that you would like to explore? What do you think interests your friends? What would be helpful to them? If you are stuck, please let me know. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Plagiarism is a grave offense. Stealing content from your sources without properly citing them is unacceptable and will result in consequences per school policy.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Evaluation Form <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Place a checkmark in the box for each part.
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Always || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Often || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rarely || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Never ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I worked well with each of my group members ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I contributed an appropriate amount of work to the project ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each of my group members contributed equally to all parts of the project ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CATEGORY || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EXCELLENT (3) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GOOD (2) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (1) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NOT PRESENT (0) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Understanding || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows deep understanding of character. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows solid understanding of character. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows surface understanding of character. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PSA shows little or no understanding of character. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Character Acting/Presentation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) fully present char. with emotion, depth, and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) present char. with emotion and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) present char. with some emotion and thought. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor(s) present char. with little or no emotion and thought. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script is properly formatted, free of errors, and uses web tip well. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script is properly formatted, with 1-3 errors, and uses web tip. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script’s format and content have several errors, and poorly uses web tip. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script’s format and content is poor and lacking substance and web tip. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page includes several resources. PSA shows evidence of research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page includes several resources. PSA shows some evidence of research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page includes a few resources. PSA shows little evidence of research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Works Cited page is absent. PSA shows no sign of research. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Evaluation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student worked well with group members and completed a fair amount of work. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student worked well with group members and completed some of the work. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student did not work well with group members and/or did not complete appropriate amount of work. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student did not work well with group members and did not complete appropriate amount of work. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suicide Handout (Writing) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is tailored to its audience. It is appealing, insightful, easy to read, and has no more than two errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is appropriate for its audience. It is generally easy to read and has 2-4 errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is not written for its audience or has several errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout is poorly written and is not suited for the audience. It has several errors. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suicide Handout (Research) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout shows understanding and depth of research. Sources are used well and Works Cited page is properly formatted. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout shows understanding of research. Sources are generally fitting and Works Cited page as only a few errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout shows little understanding of research or lacks sufficient sources. Works Cited page has many errors. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handout lacks understanding of research or lacks sources. Works Cited pages is not formatted and/or does not exist. ||

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 4: LEARNING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCES

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through multiple student enterprises, our classroom will evidence understanding of our Unit Plan’s essential questions, enduring understandings, and big idea. The largest student enterprise is the Big Project where students use web journals to explore characterization. The project allows students to grapple with character traits and enforce their own understanding of how this character would operate in a different setting. During our lesson plans, student enterprises include engaged discussion about family relationships from Vanishand Hamlet. Students will initially work through a Socratic Seminar on details from both stories as they pertain to family relationships. We will be certain the discussion is framed around how students will interact and make decisions with their families after leaving high school.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In coordination with our understandings on revenge and family relationships, our students will be thinking through deep plots and character ideas. Engaged Learning states, “students can’t see us think, but we can still model thinking” (page 54). We will serve as guides to foster academic thinking, “I turn the problem around in my head, consider many perspectives; poke at it with mental probes, trying out a few avenues of exploration; form tentative hypotheses; try out the hypotheses; get feedback, and refine them” (page 55). The teaching experience of modeling thinking will prove vital when teaching our students to critically think.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WHERETO Model:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">W - The unit begins with a combination of understanding the Elizabethan language with acting out scenes from the play. The unit then moves toward our themes of family relationships and revenge. It progresses in this fashion because students must have a surface-level understanding of Shakespeare prior to embarking on learning the deeper issues.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">H - Students will be hooked during our introductory week because we will be building a community in the classroom that fosters open communication about personal issues. If we expect our students to be open about their personal experiences either verbally or written, we need to set the appropriate tone during the first week. Our students will remain hooked because we will always relate material to their lives throughout the unit.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E - Students will be equipped for our unit because we will guide them through assignments and projects at an appropriate pace. Our lesson plan on Family Relationships (see below) evidences the differentiated instruction we plan to implement for our classroom. This way, all of our students will be on the same page when tackling the essential questions and understandings of our unit.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">R - The key to reflection and revisiting of material lies in our understandings and essential questions. Throughout our unit, we have tied our lesson plans and assessments with our understandings and essential questions to be certain students are fully absorbing the deep points of our unit plan. While almost all of our time spent on Thirteen Reasons Why occurs during Week 1, we will revisit it throughout our journey through Hamlet when we discover thematic and character connections.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E - Students are able to evaluate progress throughout the unit by receiving feedback from us. Our formative assessment in the first two weeks of the unit plan are crucial.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">T - This unit is designed for a unique classroom from our experiences at Lancaster Catholic High School as well as course material from our class. While this unit is made for a particular classroom, it can also be tailored to any classroom with appropriate changes.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O - Our unit is organized logically with the UbD model serving as the foundation. We have created our essential questions, enduring understandings, lesson plans, and assessments to align throughout the unit.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 5: LESSON PLANS <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Outline: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intro Week: We begin our unit by introducing our students to the world of Shakespeare. These lessons will focus on the language of Hamlet and performance-based learning of Shakespeare. While students will not have Shakespeare-related homework this week, we will have them begin reading 13RW. They will have seven days to read the novel. Note: We will allow some give to our reading schedule if necessary. At the latest, the class will finish the book by the end of Week 1/Day 10.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Intro Week__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 1: This icebreaker of a lesson will start our Hamlet unit by having students perform Shakespeare. Students will conduct a “read around” of [1.1.1-80] and then get in groups and act it out (SSF #2). Assign 13RW reading: “Yesterday” and Cassette 1 (pgs. 1-53) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 2: “Students will demonstrate their ability to understand the text by performing it, and they will use mime to visualize the action described in the First Player’s speeches. Then we will give students the language and experience to analyze text by demonstrating how Shakespeare uses three classical language tricks: double entendre, pun, and classical allusion.” [2.2.187-574] (SSF #8). Assing 13RW reading: Cassette 2 (54-92). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 3: Bard’s Language (T, see below) Assign 13RW reading: Cassette 3 (93-148). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 4: Relationships (T, see below) Assign 13RW reading: Cassette 4 (149-193). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 5: Film Viewing Intro (U, see below) Assign 13RW reading: Cassette 5 (194-231).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Week 1__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 6: We will conduct the first comparative film workshop on the “O, What a Rouge” soliloquy. [2.2.576-634] (SSF #9) We will also introduce the Hamlet Character Blog Project. Assign 13RW reading: Cassette 6 (232-267). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 7: 13RW Assign 13RW reading: Cassette 7 and “Next Day” (268-288). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 8: 13RW Character Map: Each tape is about a different character. Students will describe the character’s major flaw, a good characteristic, and finally describe howother characters from the book view that character. This sets up the web journal project which comes later in the unit because it gets students thinking about deep character attributes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 9: 13RW Literature Circle: Allow students to pose questions in a literature circle. Questions and subsequent discussion should tie into our themes. For example, “Where was Hannah’s family as a support system?” Or, “Should Clay have been on the tapes? Were his actions as harmful as the others that Hannah should have included him in her mass attempt at revenge?” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 10: Wrap up discussion on 13RW and introduce PSA Project

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Week 2__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 11: “Voicing the Argument.” [3.1.64-96] This lesson focuses on the “To Be or Not to Be” speech. The lesson turns this into a debate where two students read Hamlet’s lines that show is conflicting thoughts. Hopefully, students will be able to distinguish the mental arguments that Hannah went through when considering suicide. (SSF #10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 12: “To deepen their understanding of subtext and motivation, students will do the “nunnery” scene [3.1.99-175] several times, using different subtexts and objectives.” (SSF #11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 13: Today we will follow up with Day 12’s lesson and observe and critique the subtexts and objectives of this scene from about two different film versions. (SSF #12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 14: “Acting the Mousetrap” [3.2.96-317] This is another acting lesson that explores the reasons why Hamlet is rude and the Claudius’ reaction to the play-within-a-play. (SSF #13) We will divide the class into three groups and have them prepare a physicalized version of one of three soliloquies. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 15: “The Closet Scene” [3.4] In this lesson, we discuss the textual and film versions of this memorable scene. (SSF #16)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Week 3__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 16: Students will present their physicalized soliloquies today. (SSF #15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 17: In [4.5] Ophelia goes mad. We approach this scene in the same was as we did for Day 15. (SSF #18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 18: The Gravediggers Scene [5.1]: This is an acting lesson. There is a lot of humor that is lost to time and culture. Because of this, students will cut this out of the scene and leave the important information in when they perform. (SSF #19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 19: This lesson focuses on [5.2]. We will make sure that students comprehend the details to the finale and have put all the pieces together. (SSF #20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 20: Today we will hold a whole-class discussion about Hamlet. We will make time for students to pose questions about parts of the play they still do not understand. We will also bring Thirteen Reasons Why into the discussion and explore the connections between them. We will remind students that next week is Project Week. They will prepare to use class time wisely.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Week 4 (Project Week)__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 21: Students will have access to the computer lab to put the finishing touches to their Hamlet Character Journal Blog. They may also be preparing for their rationale presentation and reading. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 22: Students can work with their PSA Project groups today. The computer lab will be available if they need it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 23: This day is “blank” just in case the “unexpected” happens during the lesson. Depending on computer lab access, we might switch a Shakespeare lesson for a computer lab day. Also, students may need an extra day of grace to complete their projects. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 24: Students will present their Character Blog and Reading Presentations in class today. There will be time for student feedback and questions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day 25: Student groups will present their PSA Presentations in class today.There will be time for student feedback and questions.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English Lesson Planner || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bard’s Language || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imtiaz Alam ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Course: English 11 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit: Hamlet || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DAY #3 ||
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to read and understand Elizabethan language through Shakespeare.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential Question (s):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we understand Elizabethan language? How does reading or watching Shakespeare on film deepen our understanding of Elizabethan language? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Segment One__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Strategy: Translate Elizabethan language to modern English.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Compare Hamlet the play with the graphic novel version. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Guide students through “Hamlet In Your Own Words” with help from the graphic novel and film. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Address questions from students based on the anticipatory set.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Translate lines from Elizabethan language into modern English using “Hamlet In Your Own Words.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Discuss in small groups their questions about the language. Then discuss via entire class discussion. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Segment Two__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Strategy: Segue from translation to initial steps for interpreting meaning from text.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Facilitate small group discussion to identify difficult areas of the Elizabethan language in the play. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Ask students to create meaning from the text by providing examples of revenge and family relationship issues.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Identify language in the play that requires further attention. Their struggles will be outlined on an exit card. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-In an effort to evidence their understanding of the language, students will be asked to provide examples of revenge and family relationship issues. ||
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Hamlet by William Shakespeare. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet Graphic Novel <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Hamlet - Kenneth Branaugh film (excerpts)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anticipatory Set: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students are asked to prepare questions on uncertainties about the language in the play. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Differentiated Instruction:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Struggling students will have the opportunity to use the graphic novel/film to help them understand the text. Time can be set aside to allow for these struggling students to compare the graphic novel to the actual text in Elizabethan English.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Middle-tiered students can use a blend of the graphic novel and film to guide understanding. If they need to use the graphic novel and/or film, they are certainly encouraged to do so. Middle-tiered students should be able to grasp onto the language with more ease than struggling students. Conversely, they likely will not catch onto the language as easily as the advanced students.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced students may be able to move onto giving examples of revenge and family relationship issues. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessments:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Formative__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Checks for understanding through “Hamlet In Your Own Words.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Summative__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Exit card that includes struggles with student understanding of Elizabethan language.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Homework:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students may either read ahead or predict what they believe will happen in the play based on their progress thus far. Students should be thinking about family relationships and revenge at this point. We will ask students to come prepared to the next class with a journal entry discussing their predictions for the play and/or their thoughts on events that have transpired as it relates to our themes. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading Standards for Literature
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as well as other authors.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dramas, and poems, in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band proficiently, with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. ||  ||   ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In coordination with the above lesson plan, here is an example of how Elizabethan language is translated into modern English, “Hamlet In Your Own Words.” This was taken from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__teachinglanguagearts.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or that the Everlasting had not fixed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter. O God, God, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seem to me all the uses of this world! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fie on’t, ah, fie. ‘tis an unweeded garden <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Possess it merely. That it should come to this, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So excellent a king, that was to this <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That he might not beteem the winds of heaven <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As if increase of appetite had grown <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By what it fed on, and yet within a month – <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let me not think on’t; frailty thy name is woman – <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A little month, or ere those shoes were old <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With which she followed my poor father’s body <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would have mourned longer – married my uncle, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My father’s brother, but no more like my father <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Than I to Hercules. Within a month, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She married. O, most wicked speed, to post <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not nor it cannot come to good. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HAMLET’S SPEECH, Act I, ii 129-159. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh that this unworthy flesh would melt, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thaw like ice and turn into dew <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Or that God did not have a command <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Against suicide. O God, God, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How tiresome, uninspiring, and useless <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The world seems to me. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Darn! It’s like a untended garden <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With no one taking care of it. Yucky, gross things, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unwanted things fill my life. That my life should come to this <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He’s not been dead even two months, no, not even two, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So excellent a king, that was to this <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Perfection to, so loving to my mother <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That he wouldn’t even let gentle Zephyr’s breeze <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blow on her face! Good God in Heaven! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why can’t I just let it go – forget it. Why, she would hang on him <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As if the more time she spent with him the more she <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wanted to be with him, and yet within a month – <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh I don’t want to think about it: Women are just weak! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A little month. Heck, she hasn’t even worn out the shoes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She wore to follow my Dad’s body in his coffin <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like Niobe, she Boo-hooed buckets, Why… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O God, a senseless, unfeeling elephants <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mourn longer – married my uncle, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My father’s brother, who’s no more like my father <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Than I am to Athena! Within a month, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before the salt from her phony tears <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Had been flushed from her eyes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She married. O, so anxious she seemed to be to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jump in that Oedipal bed! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s just not right or ever will be. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But, even with a broken heart, I must keep quiet. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HAMLET’S SPEECH, Act I, ii 129-159.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale for the above lesson plan: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This lesson is important to the unit because it will provide students the opportunity to grapple with the difficult areas of the text. It serves as a stepping stone to the more detailed, intricate lesson plans to come. One of the initial hurdles with Shakespeare (aside from the Dead White Guy question) is that students see Elizabethan language as “strange” or “foreign.” Of course, it is a version of English that is different from our modern version, but we will help our students see past the language so they can absorb everything that Shakespeare has to offer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, we will differentiate instruction through use of the graphic novel and film versions of Hamlet. All students will be asked to provide an exit card that includes their difficulties with the language from the given activities. We will ask them to reflect on which medium helped them understand the language best. Going forward, we will have a better sense of how best to reach our students with Shakespeare. We can start to group our students based on their unique understanding of Hamlet through their preferred medium (the actual play, the graphic novel, or the film).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will understand how family relationships affect and influence their decision making process.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English Lesson Planner || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Family Relationships || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imtiaz Alam ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Course: English 11 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit: Hamlet || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DAY #4 ||
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential Question (s): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do family relationships influence decisions in other parts of our lives? What guidelines, principles, and values do we consider when making decisions with our families? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Segment One__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Strategy: Engaged Discussion through Socratic Seminar (20 minutes) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will…

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Start discussion framing Hamlet’s family relationship and Evan Ratliff’s family relationship during their periods of exile. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will…

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Formulate their opinions on Evan’s experience versus Hamlet’s experience. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Segment Two__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Strategy: Provide Closure to Socratic Seminar <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will…

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Redirect conversation to student’s own lives toward end of seminar. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will…

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Relate material to their own lives to help them understand their unique family dynamic. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-In the spirit of driving home family relationships and fostering our ongoing community, students are encouraged to share their own family experiences (where appropriate) with their peers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-All students will provide an exit card that includes their notes for the initial Socratic Seminar discussion. They will also be asked to include their thoughts on how their family relationships have or will affect their decisions. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Vanish by Evan Ratliff (from Dave Eggers The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010) ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessments: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Formative__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Understanding/comprehension checks during discussions
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Summative__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Exit card mentioned above in Segment Two. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students are asked to bring notes on family relationship issues in Vanish and Hamlet. ||  ||   || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that probe reasoning and evidence; ensure a hearing for a full range of positions on a topic or issue; clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions; and promote divergent and creative perspectives. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Homework: Students will be asked to prepare notes on “revenge” issues in Hamlet. ||
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standards: Speaking and Listening Standards – 1. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vanish - In dealing with family relationships, Evan Ratliff makes a few references to how disconnected he feels to his prior life. On page 335, he notes, “...my girlfriend was thousands of miles away; my family knew about me only from news reports and online speculation....I’d always prided myself on being comfortable with solitude, but this wasn’t normal solitude.” While Hamlet didn’t have the same sense or urgency or paranoia while he was away, he was certainly disconnected from his family in Denmark. In the realm of family relationships, we can discuss what it feels like to have no communication with your family members. Hamlet experienced it and so did Evan Ratliff. Our students are at an age where they might be thinking about college and leaving their homes and family for the first time. Relating back to our big idea of Conflict and our understanding about family relationships, students can start to form ideas on how they wish to increase/decrease/maintain a certain level of relationship with their family once they leave high school. This is how we make it relevant to their lives. I envision a lesson plan where we utilize Vanish as a starting point for discussion, using techniques from Chapter 7 in Engaged Learning. At the end of the class, we ask students to provide an exit card on their thoughts for what they will be doing once they graduate. Are they going to college? If so, will they commute or live on campus? If they are not going to college, are they living at home? This ties into our EQ:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“How do family relationships influence decisions in other parts of our lives? What guidelines, principles, values do we consider when making decisions with our families?”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale for the above lesson plan:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As mentioned in our understandings and essential questions, students will be working on defining and framing their own family relationships as it relates to their personal lives. In doing so, Vanish and Hamlet are going to be used as catalysts for discussion in the Socratic Seminar. While we will be checking for understanding of Hamlet and Vanish, we will also be looking to ensure students are processing examples and lessons from our course texts and translating those into their own lives. The Socratic Seminar will be driven by the students, and we will be certain to check for student understanding of the texts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will understand how the medium changes the text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Students will be able to read and understand Elizabethan language through Shakespeare.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English Lesson Planner || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Film Viewing Intro || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Uriah Renzetti ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Course: English 11 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unit: Hamlet || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DAY #5 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Understanding (s):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential Question (s): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we understand Elizabethan language? How does reading or watching Shakespeare on film deepen our understanding of Elizabethan language? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Segment One__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Strategy: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Introduce film component of unit and discuss its purpose <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Distribute and discuss Film Vocab Study Guide (below) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Show a brief film clip and identify each of the vocab terms <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Consider how viewing Hamlet will help them read Hamlet <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Fill out the Film Vocab Study Guide || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Segment Two__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional Strategy: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher will… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Distribute Film Vocab Review (below) and relay instructions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-show another brief film clip and pause DVD for each question <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Go over answers to Review <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Facilitate discussion about reading and viewing Hamlet <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Complete Film Vocab Review <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Contribute to discussion || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Hamlet by William Shakespeare <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Hamlet (film) by Kenneth Branaugh ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessments: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Formative__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Teacher will collect vocab reviews to check for comprehension of film vocab and prepare for subsequent film lessons. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading Standards for Literature (Grades 11-12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Homework: Assign 13RW reading: Cassette 5 (194-231). Students will also review film vocab for Day 6’s lesson. ||
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FILM VOCAB STUDY GUIDE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__FRAMING__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________ shot: full bodies and surroundings are visible [wide/long] ____________ shot: waist-up view [medium] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________: faces or objects fill frame [close-up]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ANGLES__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________ angle: camera looks up at objects in frame [low] __________ angle: camera looks down at objects in frame [high] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________: camera is at regular height above ground (~5 feet) [eye-level]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__MOVEMENT__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">___________: camera turns horizontally [pan] _____________: camera leans back or forward in place [tilt] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">___________: entire camera (and tripod or trolley) moves [tracking]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__EDITING__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________: screen slowly transitions to black, or vice versa [fade] ____________: brief transition from one film clip to the next [dissolve] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__________: one continuous piece of film [shot] ____________: the division between two pieces of film [cut]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Film Vocab Review <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Directions: Choose the correct film term for what is shown on the screen. Words will only be used once.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">high-angle <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dissolve <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">medium <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">close-up <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cut <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pan <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">low-angle <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fade <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shot <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">long/wide

1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________ 6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rationale for the above lesson plan: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This lesson will prepare and equip students with the understanding they need to succeed with the film-related lessons of the unit. This lesson fits well in the intro week because we will not restrict film reading and analysis for this unit. We will be actively reading visual texts throughout the year. Students are already comfortable and familiar with the film medium. We simply want to teach them the basic film techniques so that they can discuss Hamlet in both film and textual forms. Instead of a student saying, “I like when there was that big shot...” she would say “I liked how the director used the wide shot to show...” When students know how to talk about film, our discussions will be that much more engaging and fruitful. Finally, students will be able to transfer their film knowledge to their work on the PSA project.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 6: UNIT RESOURCES

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Works Cited and Referenced__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why. New York: The Penguin Group, 2008. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Babra, Neil. No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novel: Hamlet. New York: Spark Publishing, 2008. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christen, Amy. “Transforming the Classroom for Collaborative Learning in the 21st Century.” Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers 84.1 (2009): 28-31. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Golden, John. Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 2001.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hamlet. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 1183-1245.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">King-Shaver, Barbara and Alyce Hunter. Differentiated Instruction in the English Classroom. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2003.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Milner, Joseph O’Beirne and Lucy Floyd Morcock Milner. Bridging English. Columbus: Pearson, 2008. 266-288.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ratliff, Evan. “Vanish.” The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Ed. Dave Eggers. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2010. 323-324. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Small Roseboro, Anna. “HAMLET - Writing Hamlet in your own words.” Teaching Language Arts. 27 Oct. 2011. Web. 11 Dec. 2011.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching Shakespeare Institute. Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1. New York: Washington Square Press, 2006. 49-128.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tough, Paul. “What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com.” The NYT Education Issue. Web. 11 Dec. 2011.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trilling, Bernie, and Charles Fadel. 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. California: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">VanDeWeghe, Richard. Engaged Learning. California: Corwin, 2009. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WIlhelm, Jeffrey D. You Gotta BE the Book. New York: Teachers College Press; NCTE, 2008. 119-152.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SECTION 7: SELF-EVALUATION AND REFLECTION

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taz <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It has been a journey preparing our Hamlet unit plan. Now that we have finally completed everything, it’s hard to believe we have created so much useful material. I knew we were capable, but I was not able to see the light until late in the process. I have never created a unit plan prior to this endeavor. If you asked me just one year go if I was able to create a unit plan, I probably would have laughed at you. Now, I feel accomplished with the work in this document.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Our final draft of the unit plan is versatile because it can be tweaked to fit almost any classroom. Certainly, we kept our students at Lancaster Catholic High School at the forefront of our minds when creating our unit. That does not mean it remains a rigid unit plan only usable in one specific classroom. I know that our demographics will inevitably change from school to school, but I feel proud knowing that we have created a unit plan that spans beyond the classroom. Our ideas, questions, lessons, and assessments have grown throughout the unit plan creation process.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I can safely that I appreciate the purposeful thought behind creating a unit plan with the Understanding by Design model. I believe that with our lessons, our students will be able to transfer their knowledge from this unit beyond the classroom. We made every attempt possible to make material relevant to our student’s lives. We will have our students acting, writing, and speaking in lively discussion about our understandings and themes. They will raise questions of their own and be able to ponder deep Shakespearean thought outside of an English classroom environment. As a teacher of this unit plan, I will remember that I am a coach and guide of understanding. I will also remember that our unit plan is a growing document, which means it will be adjusted throughout my years as a teacher.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Uriah <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Creating this unit plan is truly a project where we put our entire education into it. This project really is a culminating presentation of all we have learned in our preparation to become English teachers. Creating this UP was the toughest, longest, and most intensive project I’ve ever done. We’ve wracked our brains to find ways to make Hamlet relevant and meaningful to our 21st century students. With the help of Thirteen Reasons Why and our summative projects, I believe we have lessened the chance of hearing the proverbial “Why do we have to do Shakespeare?” question from our students. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It was only during work on the UP that I more fully grasped UbD. Last semester it was an enigma to me, but with more exposure to it I am more confident in the system. With more practice I’m sure I won’t even have to get into backward-design mode. When I work on my next UP, I hope to incorporate more outside sources which will strengthen my case. As a growing student and teacher, I want to educate myself in the many areas needed to make a solid curriculum and try to fill in the “holes” in my learning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Although I’ve heard from my two co-ops and student teacher friends that in the reald world teachers never create UPs like this. I’ve been told they never go into this amount of depth and detail. Regardless, this was a good exercise. It helped me see all the connections involved in creating curricula. Finally, it was a blessing to have the chance to do this with a partner. Since this is our first UP, we need all the help we can get. Working and talking with Taz about our UP also helped me process things in a way that I could not do if I had to do the UP on my own.