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English IV

Goal 5, Objective 5.02

Goal 5

The learner will deepen understanding of British literature through exploration and extended engagement.

Objective 5.02

Extend engagement with selected works of British literature by:
- observing how the imaginative experience of literature broadens and enriches real life.
- relating style, meaning, and genre (including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry).
- applying literary, grammatical, and rhetorical terms of literature.
- demonstrating in various print and non-print media the significance of works.
-discerning the effect of interpreting literature from various critical perspectives.

Resources aligned to this objective

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The Great Chaucer Challenge: A cooperative learning game to review the Prologue
This game employs the cooperative learning group format to review thoroughly Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale."
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Julie Shaw.
The Hero Connection: From Beowulf to Batman
After reading Beowulf,students will identify Beowulf's heroic traits, generalize from these traits a list of typical traits for heroes, and then use these traits to compare Beowulf with contemporary heroes. As a culminating activity, students will define their concept of hero and then create a booklet of personal heroes from various areas.
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Hilda Caldwell.
Listen to a Poem
Use the poems "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Sea Fever" to teach the poetic devices of rhythm, meter and scansion.
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Linda McBane.
Sonnet 130-- rude or reality?
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130." It contains a copy of the sonnet, questions to use when discussing and analyzing the sonnet, and a creative component.

This lesson has modifications for Novice Low Limited English Proficient students
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
By Elizabeth Mackie and Vicki Moats.
Teaching "Style"
This exercise works best as a review at the mid-point or end of a literature course. Paired students describe the style of ten authors ranging from "ornate" to "plain," and then compare the authors' styles through a designated series of metaphors.
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Charlotte Osterman.
The Trial of Hamlet
In this lesson students have the chance to research courtroom procedure to try Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. Then, with some students in the roles of characters from the play, the class will conduct the trial of Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero.
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Ross White.

Lesson plans on the web

Analyzing character in "Hamlet" through epitaphs
Students compose epitaphs for deceased characters in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, paying particular attention to how their words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Audio broadcasts and podcasts: Oral storytelling and dramatization
In this lesson, students explore the historical information surrounding the broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds and develop criteria for producing their own podcast of a literary work. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Decoding “The Matrix”: Exploring dystopian characteristics through film
In this lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Focus on first lines: Increasing comprehension through prediction strategies
In this lesson, students examine opening sentences in literary works and make predictions about the content of the texts they will read later. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the history behind the satire
In this lesson, after exploring the historical allusions in Dr. Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book, the whole class discusses the history behind a passage from Gulliver’s Travels. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
An introduction to “Beowulf”: Language and poetics
This lesson provides an introduction to the Old English language and the poetics of Beowulf. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Is a sentence a poem?
In this lesson, students analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a chosen one-sentence poem to decide what makes it a poem. Then students write one-sentence poems describing a picture. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Literary scrapbooks online: An electronic reader-response project
This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Monsters
In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students use Beowulf to investigate views about “monsters” in society. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 Visual Arts Education, Music Education, and English Language Arts)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Propaganda techniques in literature and online political ads
This lesson suggests using Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to introduce students to propaganda techniques used in literature and popular culture. This short unit would be appropriate to use with various novels and when discussing advertising campaigns used in government elections. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Reading literature in translation: "Beowulf" as a case study
This lesson introduces students to the verse form and poetic techniques used in various translations of Beowulf. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
Students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus and examples from Shakespeare's Hamlet illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
So what do you think? Writing a review
After examining samples of movie, music, restaurant, and book reviews, students devise guidelines for writing interesting and informative reviews. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Weaving the multigenre web
In this lesson, students read novels, analyze the literary elements, and create a multigenre project to present information to their peers. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE