For grades 10-12, this unit explores changes resulting from the choices that people make in a variety of contexts, throughout life and throughout world cultures. Through poetry, short stories, drama, and novels, readers explore various opportunities for making choices and the resulting consequences of those choices.
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- Acknowledgments
- The William & Mary Center for Gifted Education Units
- Section 1: Unit Introduction and Curriculum Framework
- Section 2: Teaching Tips for Implementing This Unit
- Section 3: Lesson Plans
- Lessons:
- Lesson 1: Preassessments for Literary Interpretation and Opinion Writing
- Lesson 2: Introduction to the Concept of Change.
- Lesson 3: Interpretations of Literature: Platonism and Aristotelianism
- Lesson 4: My Name is Asher Lev, Book I
- Lesson 5: My Name is Asher Lev, Books II and III
- Lesson 6: Interpretations of Literature: Moralism and Historicism
- Lesson 7: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Chapters 2-139
- Lesson 8: Historical Changes through Choices
- Lesson 9: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Chapters 149-233
- Lesson 10: Mythology Influences
- Lesson 11: A People’s History of Heaven
- Lesson 12: Interpretations of Literature: Formalism and Rhetorical Theory
- Lesson 13: The Hate U Give, Part I
- Lesson 14: The Hate U Give, Novel/Film Comparison
- Lesson 15: The Hate U Give, Parts IV and V
- Lesson 16: Introduction to Latin American Literature and Magical Realism
- Lesson 17: On Love and Death
- Lesson 18: One Hundred Years of Solitude, the First Half
- Lesson 19: Interpretations of Literature: Deconstruction
- Lesson 20: Introduction to the Research Project
- Lesson 21: One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Second Half
- Lesson 22: Presentation of Research
- Lesson 23: Closing Discussion on Change Through Choices
- Lesson 24: Postassessment of Literary Interpretation and Persuasive Writing
- Section 4: Research and Writing Guide
- Section 5: Appendices
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