The objective of my unit is to enhance my students' skills to infer, close-read, analyze, discuss, synthesize, evaluate, and connect the text to their life. Every lesson plan will have specific objectives to so that I can measure the students' learning, reflect on the outcome of the lesson, and plan the follow up accordingly – differentiated instruction. I will also include many plans where I will model how to analyze/close read, determine the theme, and synthesize. These daily objective will be stated according to Bloom's taxonomy so I can easily equilibrate the activity from the lowest to the highest intellectual skills. The Bloom taxonomy includes six levels of intellectual behavior connected to learning: knowledge (recall data or information), comprehension (understand the meaning), application (use a concept in a new area), analyze (break down concepts into components), evaluate (make judgments), and create (create a new product or point of view).
Taking into account the long term goals, I will specifically implement the following objectives in daily lesson plans:
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read and understand, interpret, analyze and discuss excerpts from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Lord of the Flies by William Golding and poetry
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read, understand, interpret, analyze, and discuss non-fictional texts and videos
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understand the concepts of specific rhetorical and literary devices like point of view or narrative perspective, diction, allusions, figurative language, tone, syntax, and structure
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analyze, discuss, and write how setting, point of view or narrative perspective, diction, allusions, figurative language, tone, syntax, and structure reveal meaning
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analyze, discuss, and write about the theme(s) of the two novels
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learn to prepare appropriate questions for interviews
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research information for the targeted community
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compare and contrast the various oral, written, and/or visual documents, and draw the appropriate conclusions
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compare and contrast the communities emerging from each novel and present-day community
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write analytical essays and the final creative project.
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