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English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, Pulling It Together, Project Wrap Up
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In this lesson, students will put the finishing touches on their project—either completing uploading their files or working on artifacts and enhancements to really make their self-portrait stand out.

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English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, Pulling It Together, Troubleshooting Publication Problems
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In this lesson, students will continue to upload their chapters and artifacts, reviewing and editing their work and troubleshooting any problems that arise.

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English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Changes Portrayed In Fiction
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What kinds of changes—internal and external—are in literary self-portraits? Students will explore the types of changes portrayed in fiction. They’ll examine literary techniques writers use to portray self-portraits and change, and consider which techniques they find most useful.

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English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Chapter Planning
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For each of the five lenses, students will think of changes they’ve undergone and character strengths they’ve shown. Are there specific examples that they’d like to include in their self-portrait? They’ll start planning their chapters and the types of media they can use to express them.

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Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Choices of Potrayal
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In this lesson, students will take the third in a series of three Cold Write assessments in the narrative genre. The Benchmark Assessment (Cold Write) is an unassisted and unrevised piece of writing with the purpose of providing a quick gauge of the student’s mastery of the characteristics of a given genre. Today’s Benchmark Assessment (Cold Write) measures and provides a benchmark of students’ mastery of narrative writing. Then, they’ll consider the choices artists make when deciding how to portray someone. They’ll also do web research to explore different types of self-portraits.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
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Lesson Plan
Date Added:
09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Conveying The Truth Through Self-Portraits
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What is an artist’s responsibility to truth? What is the role of truth and facts in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction? Students will explore these questions as they consider the truths they want to convey in their self-portraits. They’ll also start interviewing people who know them well.

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English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Self-Portrait Qualities
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What are your students’ strongest personal character strengths at this point in their lives? As students mine the interviews they conducted, they’ll look for character strengths others see in them. Do they see these strengths in themselves? Are they qualities that your students want to portray in their self-portrait?

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English Language Arts
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Lesson Plan
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Summary Of Changes (Peer Review)
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How is this time in your students’ lives a moment of change? Students will work with a partner to reflect on changes they’ve experienced, people and places that are important to them, and key decisions that they’ve made. They’ll then write a summary of what they learned about their partner.

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English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Project: Self-Portrait, What "Self" to Portray?, Viewing Change Through Five Lenses
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Why is adolescence a moment of change? How do teenagers experience change in themselves and their surroundings? Students will explore viewing change through five lenses: community, persons, body, events, and choices. Then they’ll look at website-creation or portfolio platforms they can use to publish their projects.

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English Language Arts
Reading Literature
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit
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Students will consider the different ways that humor can be used by a writer to criticize people, practices, and institutions that he or she thinks are in need of serious reform. Students will read satirists ranging from classical Rome to modern day to examine how wit can be used to make important points about culture.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Students research an aspect of modern life that they would like to lampoon.
Students read from satirists across history to absorb the style and forms of humor and institutions satirized.
Students write their own satire, drawing on techniques of famous satirists to criticize their targets.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

These questions are a guide to stimulate thinking, discussion, and writing on the themes and ideas in the unit. For complete and thoughtful answers and for meaningful discussions, students must use evidence based on careful reading of the texts.

What is satire, and when is it too harsh?
How can humor and irony make you more persuasive?
What do you think is funny? How far would you go to satirize it?
Who gets more reaction—satirists or protestors?

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
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Pearson
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit, Common Targets of Satire, A Popular Way To Voice Criticism
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In this lesson, students will look at a classic satire that makes fun of and critiques various aspects of politics and government. Students will think, Why would satire have been a particularly popular way to voice criticism, especially when rulers were kings or emperors?

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English Language Arts
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit, Common Targets of Satire, Centuries Of Satirical Strategies
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In this lesson, students begin a project that lets them enjoy satire that targets a specific topic or group. Students will be reading and viewing satires that span centuries, and identifying the satirical strategies used in the different works.

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English Language Arts
Reading Literature
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Lesson Plan
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit, Common Targets of Satire, Classroom Presentations
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In this lesson, students will give their presentation to the whole class. Students will also listen to one another’s presentations and take notes. Finally, students will draw some conclusions about all the presentations they heard.

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English Language Arts
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Date Added:
09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit, Common Targets of Satire, Experts On Political Satire
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In this lesson, students work in small groups to share their information about an aspect of Jonathan Swift’s political satire. Once students are an “expert” on their topic, they will meet with others who are experts on different aspects of the satire. Students will teach each other.

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English Language Arts
Material Type:
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Date Added:
09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit, Roots of Satire, Analyzing Cinematic Satire Elements
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In this lesson, students will watch part of a film or television show that uses high school stereotypes, and they’ll analyze various cinematic elements that fuel its satirical power.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
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09/21/2015
English Language Arts, Grade 12, Satire and Wit, Roots of Satire, Creating A Response From An Audience
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In this lesson, students will look at how a writer discusses poverty. Everyone knows poverty is devastating, but how can a writer most effectively create a response from his or her audience so people want to take action? And what kinds of evidence are most persuasive?

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
09/21/2015