"'O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!': How do authors develop and relate elements of a text?"
Link: Module 11.1
Module 11.1 establishes key protocols and routines for reading, writing, and discussion that will continue throughout the year. Although these protocols are introduced in the ninth grade modules and spiral through the tenth grade modules of this curriculum, this module provides sufficient support for teachers who are implementing the routines for the first time.
Module 11.1 is comprised of three units, referred to as Unit 11.1.1, Unit 11.1.2, and Unit 11.1.3, respectively. Each of the module texts is a complex work with multiple central ideas that complement or echo the central ideas of other texts in the module. The texts in this module offer rich opportunities to analyze how authorial choice contributes to character development, setting, meaning, and aesthetic impact.
Module 11.1 Focus Skills and Habits
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive evidence-based conversations about text
- Collect evidence from texts to support analysis
- Organize evidence to plan around writing
- Revise writing according to purpose
- Determine meaning of unknown vocabulary
- Question texts during reading to deepen understanding
- Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, etc.
- Analyze the impact of an author’s choices
- Summarize a text objectively
Module 11.1 considers the important role point of view plays in literature and literary nonfiction and how authors develop central ideas through careful manipulations of a reader’s perception of character. The first unit begins with a close reading of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” in which students examine character development and choices regarding point of view as they analyze the development of central ideas in the poem. A close reading of William Shakespeare’s soliloquies, monologues, and dialogues in Hamlet expands students’ understanding of how an author may use characterization and point of view to shape central ideas. Finally, in an examination of rhetoric and point of view in an excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” students use Virginia Woolf’s contemporary feminist perspective as a lens through which to consider the relationship of power and gender in Shakespearian England.
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1: “My Last Duchess,” Robert Browning
Unit 2: Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Unit 3: A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (excerpt from part three of the extended essay)
Descriptions Adapted from EngageNY
Updated 1/7/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 11.1
Module 11.1 establishes key protocols and routines for reading, writing, and discussion that will continue throughout the year. Although these protocols are introduced in the ninth grade modules and spiral through the tenth grade modules of this curriculum, this module provides sufficient support for teachers who are implementing the routines for the first time.
Module 11.1 is comprised of three units, referred to as Unit 11.1.1, Unit 11.1.2, and Unit 11.1.3, respectively. Each of the module texts is a complex work with multiple central ideas that complement or echo the central ideas of other texts in the module. The texts in this module offer rich opportunities to analyze how authorial choice contributes to character development, setting, meaning, and aesthetic impact.
Module 11.1 Focus Skills and Habits
- Read closely for textual details
- Annotate texts to support comprehension and analysis
- Engage in productive evidence-based conversations about text
- Collect evidence from texts to support analysis
- Organize evidence to plan around writing
- Revise writing according to purpose
- Determine meaning of unknown vocabulary
- Question texts during reading to deepen understanding
- Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, etc.
- Analyze the impact of an author’s choices
- Summarize a text objectively
Module 11.1 considers the important role point of view plays in literature and literary nonfiction and how authors develop central ideas through careful manipulations of a reader’s perception of character. The first unit begins with a close reading of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” in which students examine character development and choices regarding point of view as they analyze the development of central ideas in the poem. A close reading of William Shakespeare’s soliloquies, monologues, and dialogues in Hamlet expands students’ understanding of how an author may use characterization and point of view to shape central ideas. Finally, in an examination of rhetoric and point of view in an excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” students use Virginia Woolf’s contemporary feminist perspective as a lens through which to consider the relationship of power and gender in Shakespearian England.
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1: “My Last Duchess,” Robert Browning
Unit 2: Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Unit 3: A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (excerpt from part three of the extended essay)
Descriptions Adapted from EngageNY
Updated 1/7/15 (KBW)