UNIT: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Approximately 12 Weeks) ANCHOR TEXT UNIT FOCUS Students continue to learn that people use the written word to express their thoughts and ideas about (or ), Jonathan Swift social issues and attempt to persuade others to do the same. They will explore advanced rhetorical (Literary) devices, including satire and allegory, and come to understand how they can use devices and techniques to advance their own arguments. RELATED TEXTS Text Use: Development of an author’s point of view and a text’s central ideas through use of rhetoric, Literary Texts (Fiction) specifically satire “” Jonathan Swift Reading: Chapter 2 of George Orwell Writing: Canto III from “,” Alexander Pope (online), teacher-selected articles Speaking and Listening: Informational Texts (Nonfiction) Language: , “” Andrew Sullivan “ ,” A. O. Scott “,” Ambrose Bierce CONTENTS “” Nicholas Swisher Nonprint Texts (Fiction or Nonfiction) (e.g., Media, Video, Film, Music, Art, Graphics) Text Set and Unit Focus Editorial cartoons (Art) Gulliver’s Travels, Charles Sturridge (1996), Gulliver’s Travels Unit Overview and Gulliver’s Travels, Rob Letterman (2010) Summative Unit Assessments: Culminating Writing Task, Cold-Read Task, and Extension Task (Film) “ ?,” The Onion (online) Instructional Framework Text Sequence and Sample Whole-Class Tasks
UNIT: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Approximately 12 Weeks) ANCHOR TEXT (or ), Jonathan Swift (Literary) RELATED TEXTS Literary Texts (Fiction) “” Jonathan Swift Chapter 2 of George Orwell Canto III from “,” Alexander Pope (online), teacher-selected articles Informational Texts (Nonfiction) “” Andrew Sullivan “ ,” A. O. Scott “,” Ambrose Bierce “” Nicholas Swisher Nonprint Texts (Fiction or Nonfiction) (e.g., Media, Video, Film, Music, Art, Graphics) Editorial cartoons (Art) Gulliver’s Travels, Charles Sturridge (1996), and Gulliver’s Travels, Rob Letterman (2010) (Film) “ ?,” The Onion (online) UNIT FOCUS Students continue to learn that people use the written word to express their thoughts and ideas about social issues and attempt to persuade others to do the same. They will explore advanced rhetorical devices, including satire and allegory, and come to understand how they can use devices and techniques to advance their own arguments. Text Use: Development of an author’s point of view and a text’s central ideas through use of rhetoric, specifically satire Reading: Writing: Speaking and Listening: Language: , CONTENTS Text Set and Unit Focus Gulliver’s Travels Unit Overview Summative Unit Assessments: Culminating Writing Task, Cold-Read Task, and Extension Task Instructional Framework Text Sequence and Sample Whole-Class Tasks
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