Romeo and Juliet: Unit Plan and Lesson Plan
Abstract:
The following unit and lesson plan are designed for the second semester of a 9th grade ELA curriculum. Using Peter Smagorinsky's (2008) suggested backward-design process, I established my essential topic and unit objectives before planning the specific instructional methods, activities, and forms of assessment. Notably, the unit's overarching topic of agency promotes both the analysis of character agency within Romeo and Juliet and student agency within the classroom. In between and during discussions on character agency and choices, students will also reflect on their own experiences and question the social structures that shape the course of their lives and their level of personal agency.
Students' voices and creativity should be incorporated and supported within ELA curricula. Therefore, through these planning pieces I tried to provide a pedagogical foundation for students' agentive efforts. The lesson plan below illustrates this theme of student agency in that it enables students to make the balcony scene their own. More specifically, the lesson's performance activity encourages students to engage and play with Shakespeare's language in order to reconstruct a new, student-approved version of the iconic balcony scene.
Please note that the following artifacts were created in collaboration with Carly Krull, a fellow teacher candidate at MSU. You can download the PDF version of these artifacts at the bottom of this page.
The following unit and lesson plan are designed for the second semester of a 9th grade ELA curriculum. Using Peter Smagorinsky's (2008) suggested backward-design process, I established my essential topic and unit objectives before planning the specific instructional methods, activities, and forms of assessment. Notably, the unit's overarching topic of agency promotes both the analysis of character agency within Romeo and Juliet and student agency within the classroom. In between and during discussions on character agency and choices, students will also reflect on their own experiences and question the social structures that shape the course of their lives and their level of personal agency.
Students' voices and creativity should be incorporated and supported within ELA curricula. Therefore, through these planning pieces I tried to provide a pedagogical foundation for students' agentive efforts. The lesson plan below illustrates this theme of student agency in that it enables students to make the balcony scene their own. More specifically, the lesson's performance activity encourages students to engage and play with Shakespeare's language in order to reconstruct a new, student-approved version of the iconic balcony scene.
Please note that the following artifacts were created in collaboration with Carly Krull, a fellow teacher candidate at MSU. You can download the PDF version of these artifacts at the bottom of this page.
Unit Plan
Lesson Plan
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