HS ELA Guide

Unit 2

Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts Extended Learning Activity

● Socratic Seminar regarding the impact/effect that the person’s infuence has had on the world. ● Debate an issue (SIRS or NYT Room for Debate) ● Research a social issue and create a PSA about the issue ● Research an aspect of the Human Rights Declaration and complete a PSA about the selected issues

Research and Inquiry Integration

Project Based Learning Question

● Service project ● This I Believe

Outside Project

● Make a documentary flm about someone whose ingenuity/expression infuenced the world. ● Mini or full research project with oral presentation about someone whose ingenuity/expression infuenced the world.

Supplemental Activities

Unit 3

Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts

● Read other works by Shakespeare ● If doing Romeo and Juliet, fnding informational text about different cultural context for relationships and love ● Creative writing competition ● Poetry competition: Poetry Out Loud ● Create a music/poem video ● Rewrite scenes from the play in a different time period/context. ● Playbill (Cover, character list, scene summary, actor bio, thematic paper, socratic paper) ● Socratic Seminar ● Character Project (playlist, mask, facebook page, etc) ● Create a website about poets

Extended Learning Activity

Research and Inquiry Integration

● Performance Poetry: Poetry Out Loud ● Adobe Youth Voices ● Literary Magazine

Project Based Learning Question Outside Project Supplemental Activities

● Renaissance Fair

● Any assignment for Renaissance Fair ● Submit work to online poetry site

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