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Understandings
Students will understand that: o Elements of a story, such as plot, setting, and characterization interact to enhance each other as well theme. o Literature can have a variety of themes and purposes. o Personal experience and background knowledge with the collaboration and exchange of ideas with others can contribute to the understanding of a text. Related Misconceptions: o The theme of a work is not a summary of the work or the topic of the work. o Fiction authors do not always write with the sole purpose of entertaining.
Essential Questions
Overarching Questions: 1. How does reading connect me to others within my own community and around the world? 2. How can I use what I know and have learned to contribute to the knowledge and experience of those around me? 3. How can I show that my interpretation of a text is reliable? Topical Questions: 1. What are the elements of fiction, and how do they interact to build a story? 2. How do I find the theme of a work? 3. What technologies are available to me to share my ideas about what I read? 4. What is a genre, and where does dystopian fiction fit in?
4. How can I persuade others to read the same literature I have enjoyed by appealing to a variety of cultural senses? 5. What techniques inspire me to read?
Skills
Students will be able to: isolate the elements of fiction within a text, determine the theme for a literary work, and apply knowledge of such things to a discussion of the work using collaborative technologies.
Be sure to indicate: (audience, goal, role, & situation, product performance, purpose, standards, & criteria) You have been hired by Amazon.com to read and review a newly popular genre known as dystopian fiction. Amazon wants to be able to direct customers searching for dystopian novels to your reviews and filmed book talks. (AUDIENCE & GOAL) You will work as Amazons junior book editors to find, read, and analyze a variety of dystopian fiction novels. (ROLE, & SITUATION) For your analyses and reviews to be accepted, you must first prove that you have read the book thoroughly by passing a comprehensive quiz. Next, you must utilize the Amazon guidelines for reviews and book talks which will be provided to you. (PRODUCT PERFORMANCE & PURPOSE) Your jobs depend on your professional presentations. The reviews should be detailed, address all of the Amazon guidelines, and include both a well-written script and final video, both without grammatical error. The book talks should be thoroughly scripted and rehearsed. (STANDARDS & CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS) ** This assignment requires students to interpret a new genre of fiction. When writing reviews and filming book talks, they will be required to explain the reasoning and justifications behind their conclusions. The reviews also require the students to apply their knowledge of elements of fiction such as theme, plot, mood, setting, and characterization to real-time and authentic purposes. The reviews will also require that students take into account the perspectives of a variety of age groups and cultures. Additionally, empathy for others may be a byproduct of requiring students to examine their reviews under the context of age and cultural perspectives. Finally, self-knowledge will be addressed as students gauge their own success based on the rubric.
Other Evidence
(e.g. tests, quizzes, work samples, observations)
o Students will be informally assessed based on group participation and discussion. o They will also receive a formal grade for their performance on a comprehensive quiz on their selected book. o They will receive a formal grade, using the rubric, for their final book review.
Learning Activities:
Segment 1 Day 1 WH Media Specialist will introduce the new, popular genre of dystopian fiction by explaining how a dystopian society compares to a Utopian society, by discussing and showing clips from popular dystopian films, and by reading book excerpts and reviews from popular dystopian fiction. This segment will serve as the hook and introduction to the entire unit. Segment 2 Day 2 ET Students will select their own dystopian books to read and discuss among themselves in small groups. This part of the unit will have to extend beyond the classroom and even beyond the units designated time period to allow students time to finish their books. Segment 3 Day 3 RT Students will create accounts within the Media Centers online card catalog social network to post guided reviews of the books theyve read and participate in discussions with other students as they actively read. Segment 4 Day 4 EO Students will evaluate the books theyve read for character development, pace, setting, mood, and theme and be featured in video recorded book talks/commercials on the morning announcements. Segment 5 Day 5 REO The fifth days segment will be used to complete any activities that were not completed in the previous 4 segments and to review and evaluate work from the beginning of the week.