Assessment Plan Units/Strands and Big Ideas/Essential Skills

Unit 1: Essays Strands: Writing Big Ideas/Essential Skills: 1. What is the relationship between audience and purpose and content and form in non-fiction writing? Developing and Organizing Content Using Knowledge of Form and Style Understanding Form and Style Applying Knowledge of Conventions Reflecting on Skills and Strategies Unit 2: Short Fiction Strands: Reading Big Ideas/Essential Skills: 1. How do different critical lenses affect the ways in which we interpret literature? Reading for Meaning Understanding Form and Style Reading with Fluency Reflecting on Skills and Strategies Unit 3: Literature Circles Strands: Reading, Oral, Writing * Big Ideas/Essential Skills: 1. How do we find meaning through literature? 2. What is the role of literature within society? Listening to Understand Speaking to Communicate Reading for Meaning Understanding Form and Style Reading with Fluency Reflecting on Skills and Strategies Developing and Organizing Content Unit 4: Poetry Reading, Media Big Ideas/Essential Skills: 1. What kinds of insight can poetry reveal that other text forms cant reveal? 2. How do you create an effective media text? Reading for Meaning Understanding Form and Style Understanding Media Texts Understanding Media Forms Conventions and Techniques Creating Media Texts Reflecting on Skills and Strategies Unit 5: Hamlet Reading, Media Big Ideas/Essential Skills: 1. What is the relevance of classic texts for a modern audience? Understanding Media Texts Understanding Media Forms Conventions and Techniques Creating Media Texts Reflecting on Skills and Strategies Reading for Meaning Understanding Form and Style Reading with Fluency Unit 6: CCA Big Ideas/Essential Skills: 1. How do you effectively communicate insight gained by comparing two literary texts?

Summative Assessments
Title/description: Essay (throughout the unit, students will create outlines for different types of essays. They will take one of these outlines to completion. Specific Expectations W 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7 R 1.1, 1.2, 3.1 M 1.1 Title/description: Short Story presentation: in small groups students will apply one school of literary criticism to a new short story Test Specific Expectations R 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.3, 3.3, O 1.9 , 2.4, 2.6, 2.7 Title/description: Readers Journals: throughout the unit students will prepare reading response journals. Their best set of journals for each book will be assessed. Specific Expectations O 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, R 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.3, 3.2, 3.3 Title/description: Poetry Anthology: students create a multimedia poetry anthology based on a particular theme or author. Includes Venn diagram and poetry explication Specific Expectations R 1.1 M 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 W1.3, 1.4, 3.6, 3.7 Title/description: Multimedia project Students will create a thesis and choose a presentation format based on one of the key ideas in the play. Specific Expectations R 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, M 1.1, 1.5, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2 Title/description: Comparative Essay

*Although the Literature Circle Unit is technically the third unit, you need to start it early in the course. It overlaps with Unit 1 and 2. The culminating task for this unit is the CCA for the course and is worth 10% of their overall mark.

Formative Assessments
Title/description: Reading Diagnostic: Essay Sojourners Title/description: Elements of Fiction Review: Students will create a foldable organizer of elements of fiction and common literary devices (done in small groups as jigsaw or give one/get one) Title/description: How to Keep a Readers Journal Students do a practice set of readers journals for Things That Fly as preparation for Literature Circle Readers Journals Title/description: Introduction to Literary Criticism: Begin with Reader Response note: apply to Things That Fly and Discussion Questions Title/description: Archetypal Literary Criticism: note and apply to Things That Fly Look at Joseph Campbells monomyth in relation to pop culture Title/description: Marxist Literary Criticism: Read Transients in Arcadia, discuss level of language. Pop song lyric rewrite Note on Marxist literary criticism Apply to Transients Title/description: Formalist Literary Criticism: Read On the Rainy River Journal response on story truth Note on Formalism Apply to On the Rainy River Title/description: Novel Selection: Students choose either Life of Pi and Haroun and the Sea of Stories or Three Day Road and The Stone Carvers Title/Description: Discussion Question Concept Attainment and Q chart Title/description: Intro to Poetry: note and reflective journal Title/description: Key Ideas in Hamlet Background lecture using backchannel discussion: www.todaysmeet.com Title/description: Brevity is the Soul of (T)wit: Students are assigned roles and tweet throughout the play reflecting on the ways in which the actions and events affect their character (discussions are assessed rather than tweets) Title/description: Content quizzes

Title/description: Grammar Review: sentence types (compound/complex), active vs passive voice, parallel structure, apositives, comma, semi colon. Spread throughout unit. See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/ Title/description: Academic Citation and MLA format: label and annotate an academic essay in MLA format. Students write a mini essay (one page) demonstrating proper academic citation and grammar but not content. Title/description: The Narrative Essay Note on Narrative Essay Read April Fools on Polar Circus Analyze essay Create outline for own personal essay. Title/description: The Persuasive Essay: Note on Persuasive Essay Read Liking is for Cowards or Science and Beauty Analyze essay Create outline for own persuasive essay Title/description: The Essay of Argument: Note on Essay of Argument Read Politics and the English Language Analyze essay Note on logical thinking Create outline for own essay of argument Title/description: The Descriptive Essay Note on Descriptive Essay Read On the Road to Berlin Analyze essay Create outline for own descriptive essay

Title/description: Practice Poetry Explication: This is A Photograph of Me model poetry explication

Title/description: Literature Circle Meetings (3 per book). Discussion questions and oral communication assessed. Title/description: Reflective Blog posts After each meeting, students are given a series of prompts to choose from to construct a response that consolidates ideas from literature circle meeting

Title/description: Poetry Explication: Dulce et Decorum Est Students create a set of notes with a partner. Then the next day they write the poetry explication (using their own notes) individually. Title/description: Poetic Devices Flip book: similar to flip book from short story unit

Title/description: Rhythm and meter: teacher models poetry scansion for the class then students working in pairs complete the poetry scansion.

Title/description: Theme Journals: For a given act students choose one of the themes from the Key Ideas in Hamlet note and explain how the theme has been developed. (Do two, mark the best one) Title/description: Discussion questions: Hand some in. Use others for more informal class discussions.

Title/description: Venn Diagram comparison of two Poems Class split in half. Each half reads and analyzes a different poem and then has to teach it to a partner. Then individually create a venn diagram to compare them. Late Landing and Because I could not stop for Death

Title/description: Small group scene presentations (if time permits) Students present a scene and explain how it furthers plot, develops theme, character, conflict, etc.

Title/description: Structuralist Literary Criticism: Note on Structuralist literary criticism Apply to On the Rainy River Title/description: Feminist Literary Criticism: Note on Feminist literary criticism Read The Yellow Wallpaper Apply Feminist literary criticism to The Yellow Wallpaper Title/description: Literary Criticism Concept Map

Title/description: Small group analysis/presentation of essays about Hamlet.

*Although the Literature Circle Unit is technically the third unit, you need to start it early in the course. It overlaps with Unit 1 and 2. The culminating task for this unit is the CCA for the course and is worth 10% of their overall mark.