Meredith,+Tiffany,+Sheila

Romeo & Juliet Mini Unit

Hi Ladies, I added the unit summary as well as student objectives & learning outcomes to our unit plan. Please review and make changes if you need to. I'm sure they may still need further revising. ~ Shiela

Your EQ and two unit questions are clear. As you transition to lesson activities on the concept map, the connection gets muddier. I reviewed your curriculum standards and they focus on literary techniques. I think you should choose a couple of those standards and use them to develop the lesson questions. For example, the unit question on forbidden love can be developed further by looking at the techniques by which Shakespeare creates this timeless connection to the present day. He does this through dialogue, soliloquies, asides. Your lesson questions need to reflect some of this. For the UQ on feuds, look to the curriculum standard on interactions between characters (both internal and external conflicts). If Shakespeare would not have used these techniques so well, Romeo and Juliet might not be as relevant today as it was in his day.

Feedback on changes to unit plan. The revised unit summary and unit objectives are bringing the unit into focus. I also see how you are integrating the curriculum standards.As I read over the proposed activities a potential unit question comes to mind. You are teaching about some of the techniques Shakespeare used to engage his audience in the story of forbidden love and family feuds. Language tone, rhyme, etc. Do you want to incorporate a unit question that addresses this?

Here is my revised first lesson plan. ~Shiela

I rewrote my first lesson plan to narrow my focus in a bit and to add time for students to begin work on their final project in groups. - Meredith

I revised lesson plan 2 to reflect suggested changes. ~ ShielaEXCELLENT JOB on revised second lesson plan Sheila. Shiela's Prezi ~ **Prezi does a great job of showing how the theme of forbidden love is expressed in a variety of arts forms past and present. 10/10** http://prezi.com/wswfme8fedze/copy-of-the-forbidden-love-story/?auth_key=0069a2143b72699ab2b81a4d837489760f13b56e

http://prezi.com/iw0plm-f8jsu/politics-of-romeo-and-juliet-conflicts/ Ott,M_Prezi **Outstanding Prezi with sophisticated content presented well.**

Fall: CI 513 Instruction and Technology
Meredith's Lesson plan for 11/28