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My big picture take away from Unit 4 for English I is a big focus on comprehension and response skills for students in listening , speaking, reading, writing and thinking for multiple texts. Also, there is a focus on students being able to identify author's purpose and craft.

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Students will open with "How can love bring both joy and pain?" This is open students thoughts about how literary analysis can be reviewed and interpret through the reader's lens. Students will explain and make connections through response logs.

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For E2 U4, NTUSS students will need context for US Civil Rights. Teachers will need to prepare to teach the skills addressed in the ELPS X-Ray Resources.

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In English I, Unit 4, the emphasis is on students analyzing various genres of text (all focused on the pros and cons of love). Students will analyze aspects of the texts, including author's purpose. By the end of the unit, students have to complete a literary analysis.

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The English 2 Unit 4 big picture challenges students to explore what we need in order to feel free. Throughout the unit students will engage with various argumentative texts written by human rights activists who discuss what freedom looks and feels like for survivors of state sanctioned violence. By the end of the unit, students will have the opportunity to write and deliver an argumentative essay and speech about what freedom means to them.

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Students will to analyze the text meaning and author's purpose. Students are focused on understanding implicit meaning vs. explicit meaning. This unit is all about romance and there are many connections to students' everyday lives and experiences.

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In Unit 4 for English 2 students will focus on argument and understanding of the structure and techniques of argumentative writing.

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In Unit 4 students will engage in literary analysis centered on the essential question (love brings joy and pain). They will read informational text, poetry and Shakespearean drama. Finally they will write a lit analysis essay.

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For English 2... The big picture of Unit 4 is helping students understand and critically analyze the concept of freedom; what it means, the sacrifices made to achieve it, and its connection to justice. This will be found through diverse historical, cultural, and literary lenses.

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Students read, discuss, and write about several texts that explore how love can be both positive and painful

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Students will have the opportunity to engage with a variety texts, to consider the essential question of "how love can bring joy and pain." Students will tie all of these together to write a literary analysis

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Students can make connections to their own life (teen love) and how intense it can feel. I love the connections to SEL/CASSLs skills.

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Students have to also read a variety of text to interpret and make meaning of the different types of love. They will utilize this to write a literary analysis.

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Students will need to analyze different text to answer the essential question "how love can bring both joy and pain?"

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Students will need to analyze different components of several different text in order to write an literary analysis by the end of the unit.

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Students will need to analyze genre, author's purpose, and text meaning to understand the connotative and denotative meaning of the text to drill down to how love can be complex and complicated. (big ideas and inferring to make meaning)