S1+Ferry,+Bridget

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= **// A2 Literary Texts //** **// Grades 9- Diploma //**//** The Great Gatsby **////
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * **// Maine Learning Results: //** ** English Language Arts ** **// - A. Reading //**
 * Students read text, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analyzes of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry using excerpts from the text to defend their assertions. ** // ||

//What understandings are desired?//

 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * * there is a difference between first person and third person narration and that the point of view effects a reader’s interpretation of a text
 * theme or themes, either stated or implied, have an effect in texts and can be evaluated
 * character’s internal and external conflicts greatly impact the theme or themes of a text ||

//What essential questions will be considered?//

 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * * How does different narration points of view effect a reader’s interpretation of a text?
 * Why do we need to be able to evaluate and understand themes in literary texts?
 * How do characters’ internal or external conflicts impact the themes of a text? ||

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
Important Events and People: Nick, Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Jordan, George, and Myrtle. The Car Accident, The Party, The Death of Gatsby Writing Structure: Integrating quotations, parallel structure, metaphor, simile, conclusions, introductions. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** ||  ||
 * Vocabulary: Point of View, First Person Point of View, Third Person Omniscient, Third Person Limited, Dynamic Character, Static Character, Round Character, Flat Character, Internal Conflict, External Conflict, Theme

describe the effect of point of view on the themes of the text. illustrate the theme or themes in a literary text exhibit an understanding of the minor themes of a the work compare and contrast the character’s internal and external conflicts assume the role of a first person and a third person narrator reflect on how a character’s conflict affects a theme of the work.
 * **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||  ||
 * **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||  ||






 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**