In this lesson, students are asked to tread the monologue "Pask, the Runaway" in Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! and consider how the author's word choice contributes to tone and theme development.
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In this mid-unit assessment, students read the monologue “Pask, the Runaway” in Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! They are asked to determine the themes of adversity, identify and interpret figurative language, and consider how the author’s word choice affects tone and theme development. They will use graphic organizers identical to the ones they have been using to track theme and figurative language in previous lessons. Students are then asked a series of short constructed-response questions about word choice.
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In this lesson, students will work in groups and do a close read of one of the four monologues selected for a Jigsaw presentation.
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Int his lesson, students will continue to explore medieval history through literature, assuming the identify of various individuals from feudal society in order to analyze which class they would belong to and which adversities/difficulties they may have faced.
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In this lesson, students will participate in a whole class discussion of their homework from "Jacob Ben Salomon, the Moneylender's Son" and" Petronella, the Merchant's Daughter."
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In this lesson, students examine modern voices of adversity expressed through different genres in preparation for sharing their own voice by writing a monologue.
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This lesson asks students to draft their two body paragraphs using the following for guidance: the model essay; Are We Medieval?: Forming Evidence-Based Claims graphic organizer; and the instruction provided in Lessons 10 and 11.
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In this lesson, students will close read, Part 1: “Hugo, the Lord’s Nephew”
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In this lesson, students will close read, Part 1: “Taggot, the Blacksmith’s Daughter”
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This lesson is the first of two parts in which students work in triads to do a close read of one of the four monologues selected for a Jigsaw presentation.
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This lesson is an opportunity for students to review and revise their essays to meet the expectations of the Literary Argument Essay Rubric.
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In this lesson, students make a claim about two adversities faced by people in the Middle Ages that they want to focus on in their essay.
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This lesson launches the end of unit assessment, in which students will write a literary argument essay.
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In this lesson, students draft the introductory and concluding paragraphs of their End of Unit 2 Assessment.
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In this lesson, students will close read, Part 2: “Hugo, the Lord’s Nephew”
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In this lesson, students continue to build on the skills of citing evidence to analyze what is being expressed and using it to make inferences from concrete poems in Blue Lipstick and Technically, It’s Not My Fault.
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In this lesson, students assume the identity of various individuals from feudal society to analyze which class they would have belonged to and which adversities or difficulties they may have faced. Students use background knowledge built in Unit 1, as well as the introductory video, to help prepare them for this experience.
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This lesson is the second of two parts in which students work in triads to do a close read of one of the four monologues selected for a Jigsaw presentation.
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In this lesson, students will close read, Part 2: “Taggot, the Blacksmith’s Daughter”
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In this lesson, students further refine the examples from life today that they have chosen to support their claim.
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