Essential Questions
- Is our identity predestined or do our choices shape who we become?
- How do we create, adopt, and how are we forced to be different selves based on our experiences and environments?
- How does one find fulfillment in life?
- How does reading literature shape and provide insight into our own identity?
- How do Victorian authors create the novel form to reflect and challenge the society of their time?
- What are the timeless themes found in Victorian novels?
Students will know and be able to:
- Define, identify, and analyze an author’s use of literary terms including bildungsroman, narration, exposition, denouement, prolepsis, hyperbole, paradox, and antithesis
- Discuss and analyze an author’s use of structure as it applies to meaning
- Discuss and analyze an author’s use of characterization as it relates to a theme
- Analyze a character’s development over time
- Identify and support a theme in the text
- Evaluate and analyze an author’s choices in developing character, plot, theme, and writing style
- Track character change and complexity – thinking about character moving beyond singular to dynamic and plural
- Articulate an understanding of complex themes within a text
- Dialogue with texts where conversation with the author is reciprocal – students consider the author’s point of view while the students posit their own
- Identify passages for close analysis that offer insight into character, plot, theme, and writing style
- Sustain and move discussion forward about a text, building on each other’s insights about the text
Performance Task
- Essay
Text Choices
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Thurs 8/29
With your group read over your quote and briefly discuss.
- What key words stand out to you?
- What parts of the quote do you like?
With your group, rewrite the quote as a new sentence.
HW: AP Questionnaire
Fri 8/30
Course overview
Intro to “The Critic as Artist” due Wednesday
Tues 9/3
In class time to read “The Critic as Artist”
Background on Oscar Wilde
Wed 9/5
Reviewing “The Critic as Artist”
- Dialectic
Working in groups, students will then work through a close reading of the text for their assigned pages.
- 794-bottom 796
- 796-798
- bottom 798-mid 800
- mid 800-end part 1
- part 2
- Summarize main ideas
- Key quotes and define any terms
- What do you think about these ideas? Has it made you consider criticism and the critical approach in a new or different way?
Reflective component: Working with this text is the very first thing you’ve experienced in this class, what does this mean for you as a student in this class moving forward?
- What does this mean for us as we approach literature this year?
- What are your great expectations for the year?
HW: Watch either Victorian Lit Overview or Bildungsroman Overview on classroom
Thurs 9/5
cont. Oscar Wilde and quotes
Overview of Learning Rubric & how the unit will work
Embarking on bildungsromans!
Fri 9/6
Drop
Mon 9/9
Counselors
Tues 9/10 – Friday 9/13
Reading, discussing, responding
Response 1 (for both books after reading chapter 10) due by Friday 9/13 on google classroom
Mon 9/16- Friday 9/20
Reading, discussing, responding
Response 2 (Jane Eyre after chapter 20; Great Expectations after chapter 19) due Thurs 9/19
- Either written or multimodal response
Mon 9/23 – Friday 9/27
Monday 9/23 – Reflection # 2
Reading, discussing, responding
Tues 10/1 – Wed 10/4
Finishing Text and Response 3
Response 3 (Jane Eyre after chapter 35; Great Expectations after chapter 51) due Wed 10/3
- Either written or multimodal response
Progress Report Conferences
Mon 10/7 – Friday 10/12
Finish Progress Report Conferences
Reading the Overview for the AP-Style Response for Question 3
- Practicing with the prompt from 2018 and writing about your book
Writing Reflection (due Thursday)
Reading overview for essay
Tues 10/15
Reading “Getting Launched”
Writing Essay Proposal
Starting process
Wed 10/16
Catching up – unit, AP exam, etc.
Reviewing AP response
Start conferences about essay
Thurs 10/17 – 10/18
Writing Workshop
Mon 10/21
Peer Review and Writing Workshop
Tues 10/22-10/23
Writing Workshop
Draft due by 2.05 Tuesday
Arri Weeks 