Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
Learning Targets/Standards:
I can read dramatic literature and analyze its conventions to identify how they express a writer’s meaning.
1. Opening Assignment: Answer the following questions.
A. In the short story "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman's wife is named "Faith," and he takes a physical journey into a dark forest. This short story clearly can be read on two levels and is an example of what?
B. In Wuthering Heights, Nelly ends chapter 4 with the line "I really thought him not vindictive--I was deceived completely, as you will hear." This is an example of what?
C. In Wuthering Heights, Nelly describes Heathcliff as "rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone." This is an example of what?
2. Discuss interpretation of test prep poems.
3. Discuss the historical context.
4. Pass out Heart of Darkness books. Assign section 1 study guide questions.
Notemaking for Aristotle's definition of tragedy and the term, hubris (teaching groups)
Each group will take notes about their selected reading.
Then, each group will create a visual aid to help the class remember their selected concept/term.
Each group will create a quiz for their concept/term.
Each group will teach their concept/term using the visual aid as a guide for the class.
Note: The quizzes from each group will be given at a later time.
Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy
Hubris
Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy
2. Anticipation Guide for the reading of Hamlet.
3. Video about the basics of Hamlet.
4. Closing: Discuss our discoveries.
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
Learning Targets/Standards:
I can read dramatic literature and analyze its conventions to identify how they express a writer’s meaning.
1. Opening Assignment: Answer the following questions.
A. In the short story "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman's wife is named "Faith," and he takes a physical journey into a dark forest. This short story clearly can be read on two levels and is an example of what?
B. In Wuthering Heights, Nelly ends chapter 4 with the line "I really thought him not vindictive--I was deceived completely, as you will hear." This is an example of what?
C. In Wuthering Heights, Nelly describes Heathcliff as "rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone." This is an example of what?
2. Discuss interpretation of test prep poems.
3. Discuss the historical context.
4. Pass out Heart of Darkness books. Assign section 1 study guide questions.
Notemaking for Aristotle's definition of tragedy and the term, hubris (teaching groups)
Each group will take notes about their selected reading.
Then, each group will create a visual aid to help the class remember their selected concept/term.
Each group will create a quiz for their concept/term.
Each group will teach their concept/term using the visual aid as a guide for the class.
Note: The quizzes from each group will be given at a later time.
Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy
Hubris
Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy
2. Anticipation Guide for the reading of Hamlet.
3. Video about the basics of Hamlet.
4. Closing: Discuss our discoveries.