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Do Dea: In the Beginning Unit PlanDo Dea: In the Beginning Unit Plan
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Department of Defense
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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940L
Unit Plan

Do Dea: In the Beginning

Curated by ACT

This expansive self-guided unit hits on many objectives such as analyzing literature for author's purpose, figuring out the main idea/theme, understanding historical criticism, comparing and contrasting works from major historical periods, defining the elements of drama, and describing the characteristics of an allegory. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller will be used to examine the elements of drama and the study of historical analysis.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

aristotle, author's purpose, linguistics, plot, point of view, tone

Additional Tags

department of defense education activity: in the beginning, drama, freytag's pyramid, historical criticism, main idea, origins of storytelling, six levels of drama, theme, definition of drama, historical literary criticism, literary text concepts

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RL.11-12.3 RL.11-12.5 RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 RL.9-10.9 RI.9-10.3

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