Curriculum by Design

Students are guided through reading and analysis of literary elements for each chapter of the novel, participate in discussions using evidence from the text, and are asked to research and then write about a corollary from our world and society as it...

Students are guided through reading and analysis of literary elements for each chapter of the novel and a Socratic Seminar on the themes of the novel acts as a summative assessment. All materials to guide students through activities and learning via...

Students are guided through reading and analysis of literary elements for the novel using evidence. Corollary texts are included to compare and augment the literature, as well as an analysis of the song Lemon Tree, as it is highlighted in the text. A...

Students are guided through reading a few chapters of the Scarlet Letter in order to become familiar with romantic literary elements and style. Formative assessment focuses on these elements in the novel. Students are then split up into groups or alone,...

Students are guided through reading and analysis of literary elements for The Scarlet Ibis. Formative assessments for each section of reading reinforce literary elments through evidence citation. Students are then asked to watch Simon Birch and analyze...

Students are guided through reading and analysis of literary elements for each chapter of the novel and are then asked to read corollary texts from the Bible, from other John Steinbeck work, from Milton, and from Robert Burn's poems. Students are then...

Students are introduced to Macbeth and Shakespeare, asked to read and analyze the story using evidence, given frequent literary analysis assessment activities throughout reading, provided vocabulary study activities, and asked to summatively tie it all...

Students are introduced to Gatsby and the Depression Era and asked to read and analyze literary elements in Gatsby using evidence. Students perform some assessments throughout reading, but the summative assessment is an essay in which students apply all...

Students are introduced to the graphic novel, asked to read and analyze literary elements both graphic and written, asked to perform a few analytical tasks per section, and asked to write a synthesis essay as a summative assessment. All materials to...

Students are asked to read and analyze the text while focusing on substantive note-taking. Students write a synthesis of the entire work and all literary elements focused on during note taking and reading as a summative assessment. Includes: Reading...

Students are introduced to the themes and elements of the novel and satirical, ironic literature. Students are guided through reading and analyzing each chapter and asked to research a corollary in reality to one of Vonnegut's created words. A research...

Students are introduced to Alduous Huxley and themes from the novel, guided through reading and analysis of literary elements, and guided through writing an analytical essay using evidence from the text as a summative evaluation. All materials to guide...