Carolyn L. Streets
The unit objectives are selected to align with Common Core Standards that ensure that all students are college and career ready in literacy. These selected standards are specifically that of middle and upper secondary education. College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards of this unit fall under the Craft and Structure domain. Students will: 1. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. 2. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole, and 3. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Standard 1. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone: This standard will be introduced by mini-lesson(s) highlighting the function of poetry and the purposes and mechanics of figurative language and meanings. Students will build upon prior knowledge of figurative devices such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, idiom, personification, onomatopoeia, imagery, and alliteration.
Standard 2. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole: This standard will be introduced as a mini-lesson(s) where students will be exposed to words, phrases, and meanings in both nuances, context and structural cues. This lesson will scaffold learning achieved through the lesson(s) in standard one.
Standard 3. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. This standard will be introduced as a mini-lesson(s) where students will apply their understandings from standards 1-2 and use the reciprocal teaching protocol framework for literary analysis including small group discussions using questioning, clarifying, confirming, and drawing connections between selected works.
