Learning Focused Overview: Unit Three
Course: English 12
Topic: Drama
Days: 15-17 Days
Grade(s): 12
Subject Area(s): English Language Arts
Key Learning:
Writers of drama use narrative elements to develop and structure texts to convey purpose and meaning.
Essential Unit Question:
How can a reader interpret and analyze the elements of drama in order to develop a meaningful response?
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Concept: Author’s Craft |
Concept: Structure |
Concept: Author’s Purpose |
Concept: Multiple Interpretations |
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Lesson Essential Questions: - How does an author’s choice of diction impact characterization in a text? RL3 - How does the setting of a story affect or reveal the action and characters within it? RL3 - How do themes develop throughout a play? RL2 |
Lesson Essential Questions: - How do different language structures reveal information about a speaker’s situation? RL5, L3 - What are the conventions of a Shakespearean play’s structure? RL5 - How do author’s specific structural choices impact interpretation of texts? RL5 |
Lesson Essential Questions: - How does the use of figurative language and connotative meanings contribute to author’s purpose? RL4, L5 - How can a reader determine the author’s purpose through textual evidence, including tone? RL3 |
Lesson Essential Questions: - How does another version of a drama reveal a separate interpretation? RL7 - How do various authors interpret and manipulate source drama in their own versions? RL7
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Vocabulary:
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Vocabulary: Blank Verse Iambic Pentameter Prose
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Vocabulary: Paradox |
Vocabulary: Mise-en-scène Framing Diegetic/nondiegetic sound Fourth wall |