S1+Villeneuve,Benjamin+Joseph

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results=
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * **Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts - A. Reading**
 * A2 Literary Texts**
 * Grades 9 - Diploma** (//1984//)
 * Students read text, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analyses of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry using excerpts from the text to defend their assertions.** ||

//What understandings are desired?//
•Fictional stories can be used to say things about the real world. •Literary devices can be used to establish an author's style. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •Literary characters can either undergo a change or stay the same.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How does Orwell seem to let us know how he feels about the government in __1984__? •What literary devices does Orwell use prominently, and why? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How does Winston Smith change?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Key factual information (Historical context, Orwell's life experience) •Important characters (Winston, Julia, O'brien, Emmanuel Goldstein, Big Brother) || •Describe common literary devices in __1984__. •Adapt a literary device in __1984__ for use in a short work of their own. •Analyze themes in __1984__. •Describe similarities and differences between our world and the world in __1984__. •Evaluate a character in __1984__'s motives and conflicts. •Relate to a character in __1984__ other than Winston. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •(Invented) Vocabulary (Minitrue, Miniluv, Minipax, Newspeak, crimethink, doublethink, Insoc, thoughtcrime)


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