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Unit 5: What's Love Got to Do with It?
Conceptual Lens: Love and Marriage
Essential Questions: What roles do love and marriage play in the human
experience? How do I define love and marriage?
Longer Text: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Focus: Critical Texts
NCSCOS Objectives:
- 4.01 Evaluate the effectiveness of communication
- 4.02 Read and critique various genres
- 4.03 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print critical texts
Essential Vocabulary: allusion, ballad, comedy, critique, dialogue, drama, meter, tragedy
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- An electronic copy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet can be found at http://www.bartleby.com/70/index38.html.
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Unit 5, Lesson 1
 03/13/2012 and 03/14/2012 Lesson Resource Unit 5, Essential Question 1 Forum- Unit 5, Essential Question 2 Forum
- Unit 5, Lesson 2
- 03/15/2012 and 03/16/2012 Lesson Resource
- The Science of Love Forum
 "Biology: Your Brain in Love," Time, 01/19/2004 file- Unit 5, Lesson 3
- 03/19/2012 and 03/20/2012 Lesson Resource
- Teenage Rebellion Forum
- Tips for Tackling the Language Resource
- Shakespeare's Prologue to Romeo and Juliet Resource
- Present the Prologue: Directions Resource
- Present the Prologue: Visual-Spatial Group Resource
- Present the Prologue: Bodily-Kinesthetic Group Resource
- Present the Prologue: Logical-Mathematical Group Resource
- Present the Prologue: Verbal-Linguistic Group Resource
- Present the Prologue: Individual Challenge Resource
- Unit 5, Lesson 4
 Essay on "Biology: Your Brain in Love" Assignment- Unit 5, Lesson 5
- Present the Prologue: Individual Challenge Assignment
- Unit 5, Lesson 6
 Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 44-65: Group A file- Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 44-65: Group B file
- Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 44-65: Group C file
- Unit 5, Lesson 7
- Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 116-238: Individual A file
- Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 116-238: Individual B file
- Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 116-238: Individual C file
- Unit 5, Lesson 8
- Write a journal entry about a first romantic kiss you have had, a first romantic kiss you would like to have (general or specific), or about the scientific importance of the first kiss. (Each new romantic relationship has its own first kiss.)
 Online Notes for Act 1, Scene 5 Love Sonnet PDF document- Unit 5, Lesson 9
At the beginning of next class, you will take a quiz on Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet!
- Prompt for Persuasive Essay on Same-Sex Marriage Resource
- Ballot*pedia Entry for NC Amendment One file
- Same-Sex Marriage Essay Drop Box Assignment
- Unit 5, Lesson 10
- Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Quiz file
- Unit 5, Lesson 11
- Same-Sex Marriage Pro or Con Essay Assignment
- Notes on the Balcony Scene (Act 2, Scene 2) Resource
- Unit 5, Lesson 12
- Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Quiz file
- Act 3 Group Work Assignments file
- Unit 5, Lesson 13
- Unit 4, Lesson 14
- Act 3 Quiz file
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Unit 4: All Men are Created Equal
Conceptual Lens: Justice
Essential Questions:
- What is the relationship between equality and justice?
- Do I live in a just society?
Longer Texts: Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till
Focus: Argumentative Texts
NCSCOS Objectives:
- 3.01 Study argument
- 3.02 Express an informed opinion
- 3.03 Support that informed opinion
- 3.04 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print argumentative texts.
Essential Vocabulary: argument, counterargument, informed opinion, opinion, organizational structure, style, figurative language, free verse, imagery, literary device, lyric poetry, metaphor, motif, rhyme, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbolism, symbol
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- Unit 4, Lesson 1
- 01/17/2012 and 01/18/2012 Lesson Resource
- Studying the Civil Rights Movement Forum
- Unit 4, Lesson 2
- Classscape District Benchmark Assessment for English I Goals 1, 2, 3, and 6.
- To Kill a Mockingbird SSR (Sustained Silent Reading)
- Unit 4, Lesson 3
- 01/23/2012 and 01/24/2012 Lesson Resource
- Lady Justice Forum
- "School Suspensions" Forum
- Unit 4, Lesson 4
- 01/25/2112 and 01/26/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 5
- 01/27/2012 and 01/30/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 6
- 01/31/12 and 02/01/12 Lesson Resource
- Essay on Equality in High School Discipline Plans Assignment
- Unit 4, Lesson 7
- 02/02/2012 and 02/03/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 8
- 02/06/2012 and 02/07/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 9
- Justice Essay Based on New York Times Articles Assignment
- 02/08/2012 and 02/09/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 10
- 02/10/2012 and 02/13/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 11
- 02/14/2012 and 02/15/2012 Lesson Resource
- "What Do States Owe the Exonerated?" Essay Assignment
- Literary Analysis of Characterization in To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Prompt PDF document
- Unit 4, Lesson 12
- 02/16/2012 and 02/17/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 13
- 02/21/2012 and 02/22/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4, Lesson 14
- Characterization in To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Assignment
Unit 4, Lesson 15 - 02/27/2012 and 02/28/2012 Lesson Resource
- Unit 4. Lesson 16
- 02/29/2012 and 03/01/2012 Lesson Resource
- Photo Story Tutorial PDF document
- Unit 4, Lesson 19
- American Memory Photo Story Poem Assignment
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