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An Introduction to Julius Caesar Using Multiple-Perspective Universal Theme Analysis

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Title:

 An Introduction to Julius Caesar Using Multiple-Perspective Universal Theme Analysis

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students begin by evaluating the universal theme of betrayal from multiple perspectives. After reading time period scenarios as well as reflecting on personal experiences, students use critical thinking skills to explore and identify interventions for each the betrayal scenario, including their personal examples. Students research Roman history, the setting of Shakespeare's drama, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Applying this research, students write their own critical perspective of a scenario depicting plausible betrayal scenes from Roman times. As the culminating project and assessment, students create comic strips with the student interactive Comic Creator.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 9
28 ) Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. [W.9-10.9]

a. Apply Grade 9 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work [e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare]"). [W.9-10.9a]

b. Apply Grade 9 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning"). [W.9-10.9b]

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.9.28- Draw evidence from a literary or informational text to support an analysis or research topic.
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 10
1 ) Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. [RL.9-10.1]

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.10.1- Answer who, what, when, where, and why questions to analyze stories, using textual evidence and inferences as support.
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 10
2 ) Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. [RL.9-10.2]

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.10.2- Determine a theme and identify how the theme develops throughout a text, citing specific details; create an objective summary of a story.
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 10
3 ) Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. [RL.9-10.3]

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.10.3- Describe how characters interact and develop in a story.
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 10
8 ) Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how early American authors draw upon the Bible for religious themes and issues). [RL.9-10.9] (Alabama)
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 10
9 ) By the end of Grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the Grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.9-10.10]
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 12
1 ) Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. [RL.11-12.1]

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.12.1- Answer who, what, when, where, and why questions to analyze stories, using textual evidence and inferences as support.
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 12
2 ) Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. [RL.11-12.2]

NAEP Framework
Anchor Standard::
Anchor Standard 2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Cognitive Target::
Make complex inferences within and across texts to integrate ideas to determine theme, identify or interpret a character's motivations and decisions, examine relations between theme and setting or characters.
NAEP Descriptor::
Integrate and interpret ideas to determine theme. (Extensive)

NAEP Descriptor::
Synthesize poetic details to infer and explain the theme of a poem. (Full Comprehension)

NAEP Descriptor::
Infer and recognize reason for narrator's action in literary description.

NAEP Descriptor::
Synthesize across story to provide them and support with reference to text.

NAEP Descriptor::
Infer and provide thematically related idea base on a story description.

NAEP Descriptor::
Evaluate the effectiveness of plot device used in a short story.

NAEP Descriptor::
Evaluate beginning of story in relation to character and theme with text support.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.12.2- Identify how two themes develop throughout a text and analyze how they interact and build on one another; create an objective summary of a story.
English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 12
9 ) By the end of Grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the Grades 11-College and Career Readiness (CCR) text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.11-12.10]
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