"How Do Authors Use Craft and Structure to Develop Characters and Ideas"
Link: Module 4
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and fate.
Module 10.4 Focus Skills and Habits
-Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive, evidence-based discussions about texts
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support claims made in writing
- Use vocabulary strategies to define unknown words
- Determine meaning of unknown vocabulary
- Independently preview text in preparation for supported analysis
- Provide an objective summary of the text
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from a text
- Delineate an argument
- Construct an argument
- Analyze various treatments of a text across different media
- Write original evidence-based claims
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
- Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his point of view
In Module 10.4, students apply the skills and processes they have developed throughout the year to delve into classic texts spanning five centuries. Beginning in Unit 1 with E.B. White’s 20th century essay, "Death of a Pig," students consider narrative structures, style, and the concept of tragedy. Students develop a deeper understanding of tragedy in Unit 2 as they read William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and analyze other artists’ interpretations of Shakespeare’s work by viewing paintings by nineteenth-century artists and film excerpts, including Akira Kurosawa’s "Throne of Blood." In Unit 3, students read excerpts from Niccolò Machiavelli’s 16th century text "The Prince," considering central ideas, such as the intersections of morality and ambition with imbalance and disorder, which builds upon students’ analysis of related central ideas over the course of the module.
Texts (May be found HERE)
Unit 1: "Death of a Pig," E. B. White
Unit 2: Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Unit 3: The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Description Adapted From Engage NY
Updated 1/6/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 4
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and fate.
Module 10.4 Focus Skills and Habits
-Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive, evidence-based discussions about texts
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support analysis in writing
- Collect and organize evidence from texts to support claims made in writing
- Use vocabulary strategies to define unknown words
- Determine meaning of unknown vocabulary
- Independently preview text in preparation for supported analysis
- Provide an objective summary of the text
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from a text
- Delineate an argument
- Construct an argument
- Analyze various treatments of a text across different media
- Write original evidence-based claims
- Generate and respond to questions in scholarly discourse
- Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his point of view
In Module 10.4, students apply the skills and processes they have developed throughout the year to delve into classic texts spanning five centuries. Beginning in Unit 1 with E.B. White’s 20th century essay, "Death of a Pig," students consider narrative structures, style, and the concept of tragedy. Students develop a deeper understanding of tragedy in Unit 2 as they read William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and analyze other artists’ interpretations of Shakespeare’s work by viewing paintings by nineteenth-century artists and film excerpts, including Akira Kurosawa’s "Throne of Blood." In Unit 3, students read excerpts from Niccolò Machiavelli’s 16th century text "The Prince," considering central ideas, such as the intersections of morality and ambition with imbalance and disorder, which builds upon students’ analysis of related central ideas over the course of the module.
Texts (May be found HERE)
Unit 1: "Death of a Pig," E. B. White
Unit 2: Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Unit 3: The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Description Adapted From Engage NY
Updated 1/6/15 (KBW)