Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Literature Interpretations

Name: Vanessa Camargo

Content Area: English Literature

Grade Level: 9-12

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

RL-7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry),
evaluating how each version interprets the source text.
RL-10 Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems.
RI-2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and
build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
RI-6 Determine an authors point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content
contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
W-1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, suing valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
a. Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim, establish the significance of the claim, distinguish the claim from alternate or opposing claims,
and create an organization that logically sequences claim, counter-claim, reasons, and evidence.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
- What is an interpretation?
- What is the purpose of interpretation?
- What are the affects of multiple interpretations on a literary work?
- How do multiple interpretations increase or decrease the meaning of the literary work?
- By the end of this students will be able to analyze connections between 2 or more interpretations of "A Dream Within a Dream."
- Students will assess the significance of multiple interpretations.
- Students will be able to devise and demonstrate the affect of an interpretation of a reading.
- Students will also formulate a short paper on their own interpretation of a reading using proper citations, thesis, organization and evidence.
Unit Summary:

In this unit plan we will be exploring the affects of interpretation on literature. We will view and read various types of visual and audio
interpretations of Edgar Allen Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream" as well as other readings. This unit plan is designed to function as a guide and
resource for tools, information, and activities that will help students understand the affects of multiple interpretations on a reading. We will
explore the use of tone, pause, visual aids, images, audio, etc., to reinterpret literature. Students will also formulate their own interpretation of a
reading as well as write an argumentative paper to explain their interpretation, their use of interpretation tactics, and why their interpretation is
most successful in translating the reading.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:

Formative:

Summative:

These assignments will be short with the

intention to gather what prior knowledge the
students have on the topic of interpretations.
One of the assignments that will be used for
this category is the Quickwrite on the
contribution of multiple interpretation to
literature.

These assignments will be based on the

teacher lecture and lesson plans that are
introduced throughout the first half of the unit.
These assignments will help students practice
discussing about the affects of interpretations
as well as memorizing the history and different
interpretation techniques used. Some of these
assignments include a webercise, quiz, class
discussion, and guided notes.

These assignments will help assess the

students acquired knowledge and
interpretation skills learned throughout the
entire unit. These assignments will required
the student to formulate their own
interpretations as well as analyze the function
and affects of other interpretations of a
reading. Students will compose written
arguments to explain their analysis. Some of
these assignments include essay writing and
group presentations.

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):

Lesson Activities:
Watch the prezi lecture as well as complete all questions and pop activities on the lecture.
Guided notes.

Student will understand

the history, different
types, and significance
of multiple
interpretations of
literature.
Lesson 2

Guided notes will be

used to assess the
students comprehension
of teacher lecture.

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Webercise will be used to

Read and watch all the online sources found on the webercise.

Student will analyze the

difference between 3
interpretations of a
poem and write a short
analysis of their affect on
the theme of the poem.
Student will also
understand how to use
information of the author
to translate the writing
itself.
Lesson 3

answer the questions

and provide online
resources to use for the
questions.

Answer all the questions on the webercise.

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Graphic organizer
assignment of creating a
cluster map of 3 unique
themes within a fairytale.

Watch the video on finding themes for interpretations.

Creating a cluster map to help organize theme claims, connections, and evidence of
connections.

Student will practice

brainstorming a type of
interpretation on a
fairytale of their choice.
Students will find 3
unique themes that can
be used as a foundation
for a new interpretation.
Students will be
expected to think
beyond the obvious
common themes.
Unit Resources:

http://www.shmoop.com/dream-within-a-dream/
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/readpoem.htm
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/LiteraryReading/Readings/Dixon%20Bortolussi%20Twilley%20and%20Leung.pdf
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edgar-allan-poe
https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ReadingPoetry.html
http://study.com/academy/lesson/interpreting-a-poems-main-idea-theme.html

https://vimeo.com/43325734
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsEEjC2dUEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqBd--rmBTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwLkxmCWJRs

Useful Websites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbfKFHgV1W0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREopphW5Bw
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edgar-allan-poe