In this unit students will read about human nature and how it remains unchanged or drives change throughout history. Through reading various historical fiction texts, students will interpret how values of the time impact the texts through a historicist and moralist philosophies.
Priority Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
- RL.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
- SS.Psy.5.9-12 Evaluate the complexities of human thought and behavior, as well as the factors related to the individual differences among people.
- SS.H.2.9-12: Analyze change and continuity within and across historical eras.
We are learning to... - Analyze a text from both a moralist and historicist perspective.
- Understand the history of Anti-semitism and how it is reflected in Merchant of Venice.
- Understand the concept of human nature.
- Decode and comprehend a complex text using various reading strategies.
- Analyze how a particular cultural point of view is reflected in a work of literature.
- Analyze how an author’s use of language contributes to meaning and tone.
- Analyze how characters develop a theme and advance the plot.
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