Unit Description:
In this second unit, students will delve into an exploration of their personal identity. Students will engage with identity based texts set in the middle ages as they explore their own identities.
Essential Questions:
Core Texts:
Supplementary Texts:
Activities:
Documents:
In this second unit, students will delve into an exploration of their personal identity. Students will engage with identity based texts set in the middle ages as they explore their own identities.
Essential Questions:
- Who Am I?
- How does society both support and limit the development of identity?
- How does society influence identity and experience?
Core Texts:
- Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by Richard Platt
- The Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Reading Group Texts: A Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg, The Cross of Lead by Avi, Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Supplementary Texts:
- Historical Accounts: Clergy, Knights, Midwife, Nobles, Peasants, Tradesmen, The Middle Ages- The Medieval Years
- Music: Lamento de Tristano, Anonymous
- Paintings: Pilgrims Leaving Canterbury by Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes, Joachim Among the Shepherds by Giotto di Bondone, The Three Living and the Three Dead, Master of the Dresden Prayer Book
- Poetry: “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, "I am the One" by Anonymous
- Castle Video on YouTube
Activities:
- Anticipation Guide
- Journals: Prompts, Notes, Vocabulary, Grammar
- Reading Texts, Formats & Strategies
- Identity Poems: Reading & Writing
- Identity Collage
- Writing Lessons: POV, Narrative Elements, Description/Details
- Writing Pieces: Point of View Diary Entry, Exploded Moments, Narrative Writing/WeVideo
- PBL Choice Product & Presentation
- DTQ Discussions, Socratic Seminars
- Testing F&P
Documents:
Unit 2: Identity Now & Then Student Packet | |
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