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

//What understandings are desired?//
•The point of view and narration of a text benefit the perspective and believability of a novel. •History and setting play important roles in the development of plot and action. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •Common literary elements and devices shape the effectiveness of the plot by allowing the reader to draw conclusions and make connections to their own lives and/or other texts.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How does Nick's narration and perspective affect the readers? How is a narrator reliable or unreliable? •Why does the setting of the Jazz Age affect and relate to the plot? How do the characters' actions and relationships reflect the time period? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How do literary devices and elements contribute to the effectiveness of the novel?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
genre, conflict, audience, symbolism, plot, style, metaphor, simile, personification, irony, foreshadowing •**important characters** Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jay Gatsby •**critical details** - era of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, the American Dream, the aristocracy associated with East and West Egg || •justify the effects of America in the 1920s on the style and action of the text. •evaluate the themes of the novel. •create depictions of East and West Egg and what they represent. •analyze the characters' internal and external conflicts through their points of view. •consider the novel's action through another character's point of view. •recognize symbols and the relationship that exists between them and the audience. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •**vocabulary** (literary devices) - theme, setting, tone, protagonist, perspective,


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