S1+Steinhagen,Kelly+Michele

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= Grade 9-Diploma Students read text, within grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analysis of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, using excerpts from text to defend their assertions. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts A2- Reading Literary Texts. "Hamlet".

//What understandings are desired?//
•characters, symbols, and motifs affect the theme. •Shakespeare uses a variety of literary devices. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •Shakespeare is modern English.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How do characters and symbols add to the theme? •How do the characters relate to each other? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •Why is this an example of a tragedy?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
aside, tragedy. •Terminology; motifs, symbols, dramatic irony, comic relief, fatal flaw. •Critical details; The time-line of the play, how characters relate to each other, all the literary devices used. || •describe the types of literary devices used. •evaluate character's inner/external conflicts. •adapt the language so that it is even more "modern". •analyze what the symbols are/analyze characters. •role-play with accurate character portrayal and understanding. •recognize the similarities between the language of then and now. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •Vocabulary; soliloquy, iambic pentameter,


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**