English 2: World Literature and Composition - Drama Unit
Students will read & analyze Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, learn about MLA format & Works Cited pages, examine themes, research a world theatre, and respond to the reading.
Angelia Derrick (she/her)
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13 pre-recorded lessons
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2-4 hours per week. Students will need to read and study the texts, do the weekly activity pages, do short written responses outside of class, and research and create a presentation.Letter Grade
Your Final Grade will be determined from your homework grades and project grade. Projects and essays grading rubrics will be provided with the assignment. Reading questions and most of the homework is graded Pass/Fail with credit given for completing the activity; partial credit given if the activity wasn't complete or done incorrectly.Grading
Students can opt out of having a grade issued.Class Experience
US Grade 10
This class can be used as a core English/Literature/Language Arts/ELA course for 10th or 11th grade (US standards). For non US-students, please contact me and I can send you the standards to see if it will suit your high school/secondary school year 10, 11, or 12 student's needs. There are NO live meetings for this course. Multiple posts will be made to the classroom each week which will include: video lessons on the text and language arts, reading questions for the reading that need to be responded to, and homework which will include the reading and worksheet/writing/creative project assignment. In this Drama Unit, students will read and analyze The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, identify and discuss the plays' themes, analyze characters, interpret different performances, learn about play, act, and scene structure, identify the main conflict of the play and elaborate on its moral complexities, and pick a film to watch of one of the plays and contrast it with the written play. There will be a weekly bell ringer lesson and quiz which will cover vocabulary words, literary terms, a nonfiction excerpt analysis, and correcting grammar. The unit will conclude with the students researching and creating a slideshow presentation about world theatre; including an MLA works cited page. This class is unit 3 of 4 units in my English 2: World Literature and Composition Semester B self-paced class.
Learning Goals
Students will work on their critical thinking skills while analyzing plays, learn how to write an MLA Works Cited page, and how to research a topic.
Syllabus
Curriculum
Follows Teacher-Created Curriculum13 Lessons
over 5 WeeksLesson 1:
Week 1 Bellringer
This week's bell ringer will cover one literary term, four vocabulary words, sentence grammar correction, and analysis of a nonfiction quote. Students will complete a multiple choice quiz. Video Lesson: 7 min 1 assignment
Lesson 2:
Introduction to Theatre and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
An introduction to world theatre and William Shakespeare via YouTube videos, an introduction lesson to Much Ado About Nothing, and students will be provided with guided reading notes to help them understand the play. Homework is to read Much Ado About Nothing Act 1. Extra-credit option of watching a play in their local community will post. Video Lesson: 16 min 1 assignment
Lesson 3:
Much Ado About Nothing & Analyzing Quotes
We will go over the skill of analyzing quotes and look at a quote from Much Ado About Nothing. Homework will be to read Act 2, respond to reading questions, and complete research on courtship in Shakespeare's time period. Video Lesson: 5 min 3 assignments
Lesson 4:
Week 2 Bellringer
This week's bell ringer will cover one literary term, four vocabulary words, sentence grammar correction, and analysis of a nonfiction quote. Students will complete a multiple choice quiz. Video Lesson: 12 min 1 assignment
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Students will research some topics online, read articles on websites, and occasionally watch an informational YouTube video to complete homework assignments. I will refer to the Google Suite for completing homework assignments (for example, writing a short reading response in Google Docs), but learners are welcome to use any office suite they are familiar with, but will need to let me know so we can make sure I can view the files when they turn them in.
Students will read and discuss in a matter-of-fact way the following texts which tackle some sensitive topics. Some of the topics tackled will be abuse and violence, drinking and intoxication, some sexual situations, and foul language. The books tell stories that include these elements and the students will discuss these issues in a matter-of-fact way in context to when/where it happened or is depicted as happening. It is important for learners to know that these issues exist even if they don't have a personal connection to one or any of the topics. These books are taught to high school/secondary school aged children all over the world and are considered to be age appropriate with the knowledge of the sensitive issues that will be covered.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Supply List
Students will need a word processor to write paper assignments, a journal/notebook/google doc is recommended for journaling thoughts and extra/non-workbook assignments, a printer to print up the workbook pages or pdf editor to do them on their computer, and a cell phone with a camera/scanner to turn in workbook pages. The following texts/books will be used throughout the class. Families may purchase (print, ebook, or audio) or borrow from their local library. Prices listed below were found on Amazon. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. $3.49. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. $5.19. Students will need to rent/stream/borrow: The Importance of Being Ernest (2002) PG or Much Ado About Nothing (1993) PG-13. Some additional art supplies such as glue, markers/crayons/colored pencil, paper, etc. will be needed for certain assignments.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
Literature units from Lit & More and Teen Tech University.
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2 Degrees
Master's Degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies from California State University, Fullerton
Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Charter Oak State College
I studied literature throughout my bachelor's program as part of the creative writing emphasis. I have been teaching middle and high school level students for several years how to analyze texts (movies and books) as well as writing essays.
Published writer in nonfiction (articles and books) and fiction (short stories, novellas, and novels).
Writing young adult fantasy and space opera under the pen name Angelia Almos.
Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting
Bachelor of Arts in Applied Arts: Creative Writing
Certificates from Institute of Children's Literature
Certificates from Institute for WritersReviews
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