"Reading Closely and Writing to Analyze: How Do Authors Develop Complex Characters?"
Link: Module 1
In Module 9.1 students will focus on how complex characters develop through interactions with one another and how authors structure text to accomplish that development.
Module 9.1 Focus Skills & Habits:
- Establishing key routines and practices surrounding:
- Reading 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
- Make claims about texts using specific textual evidence
- Use vocabulary strategies to define unknown words
- Analyze an author’s craft
- Independently preview texts in preparation for supported analysis
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from texts
In Module 9.1, students read the complex text "St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by contemporary author, Karen Russell. Students will participate in multiple readings of the text, collaborative discussions and develop an understanding of the richness of Russell’s language, description, and meaning, particularly around the ideas of identity and beauty, which students consider over the course of the module in relation to excerpts from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In their study of Romeo and Juliet, students will have the opportunity to examine the text across artistic mediums including film and fine art. Students produce writing tasks that ask students to support their claims using text-based evidence. By the end of the module students will have begun to establish a foundation for critical reading, writing, thinking and speaking habits which lay the foundation for college and career readiness.
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1:
"St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell
Unit 2:
Excerpts from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (Pgs 3-12)
Excerpts from Black Swan Green ("Hangman" and "Solarium") by David Mitchell
Unit 3:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Romeo + Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. 20th Century Fox, 1996.
Description Adapted from EngageNY Curriculum Map
Updated: 1/5/15 (KBW)
Link: Module 1
In Module 9.1 students will focus on how complex characters develop through interactions with one another and how authors structure text to accomplish that development.
Module 9.1 Focus Skills & Habits:
- Establishing key routines and practices surrounding:
- Reading 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
- Make claims about texts using specific textual evidence
- Use vocabulary strategies to define unknown words
- Analyze an author’s craft
- Independently preview texts in preparation for supported analysis
- Paraphrase and quote relevant evidence from texts
In Module 9.1, students read the complex text "St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by contemporary author, Karen Russell. Students will participate in multiple readings of the text, collaborative discussions and develop an understanding of the richness of Russell’s language, description, and meaning, particularly around the ideas of identity and beauty, which students consider over the course of the module in relation to excerpts from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In their study of Romeo and Juliet, students will have the opportunity to examine the text across artistic mediums including film and fine art. Students produce writing tasks that ask students to support their claims using text-based evidence. By the end of the module students will have begun to establish a foundation for critical reading, writing, thinking and speaking habits which lay the foundation for college and career readiness.
Texts: (Many Available HERE)
Unit 1:
"St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell
Unit 2:
Excerpts from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (Pgs 3-12)
Excerpts from Black Swan Green ("Hangman" and "Solarium") by David Mitchell
Unit 3:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Romeo + Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes. 20th Century Fox, 1996.
Description Adapted from EngageNY Curriculum Map
Updated: 1/5/15 (KBW)