12+Reading

**DRIVING QUESTION: //What is it that we need from Heroes?//**

**LITERARY TEXTS:**

 * //Beowulf//
 * Arthurian Tales //- Sir Gawain, Morte d'Arthur, Passing of Arthur//
 * //The Canterbury Tales - Prologue, Pardoner's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale//
 * //The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark//
 * Sonnet selections (Shakespeare, et al)
 * //All Souls: A Family Story from Southie// (Independent Reading)
 * //Pride & Prejudice// (I.R.)
 * //Wuthering Heights// (I.R.)

LITERARY PERIODS: Anglo-Saxon Era Medieval Age The Renaissance Age of Reason Romantic Era Victorian Era New Directions

**POWER STANDARDS**
Common Assessment: //Gawain// "College" Prompt (Free Write). Scheduled: November || Common Assessment: Close Reading of //Hamlet// ~ Opening lines worksheet. Scheduled: March ||  || Common Assessment: Table for Twelve Project ~ //Canterbury Tales.// Scheduled: January
 * ** 2. ** Determine two or more themes or 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 produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
 * ** 3. ** Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
 * 5. ** Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

Common Assessment: Sonnet analysis w/picture correlation. Scheduled: February
 * MA.8.A.** Analyze a work of fiction, poetry, or drama using a variety of critical lenses (e.g., formal, psychological, historical, sociological, feminist).