Identity UnitKey Concept: Identity
Related Concept: Characters Global Context: Identities & Relationships (Attitudes, Motivations, Human nature, Human dignity) Statement of Inquiry: Authors create an identity for each main character with different attitudes and motivations. Formative Activities:
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Summative Assessment:
Goal: Identify and explain an author’s choices for characterization to create an identity for main characters in a novel through online written expression
Role: Book reviewer and literary critic for a student-created, online literary magazine
Audience: Academically minded students and adults who have read or might want to read about identity
Situation: Students have all read novels and poems as well as discussed their ideas about identity; they will write a literary journal to review and discuss how well the authors created an identity for each of the main characters.
Product: Create a website as a literary journal, using the best evidence from the text, analyze the quality of the identity of a character created by the author’s choices in the novel, including any of the following:
Role: Book reviewer and literary critic for a student-created, online literary magazine
Audience: Academically minded students and adults who have read or might want to read about identity
Situation: Students have all read novels and poems as well as discussed their ideas about identity; they will write a literary journal to review and discuss how well the authors created an identity for each of the main characters.
Product: Create a website as a literary journal, using the best evidence from the text, analyze the quality of the identity of a character created by the author’s choices in the novel, including any of the following:
- Personal attitudes
- Motivations
- Responses to external forces that shaped his or her identity
- Character Choices
- Literary choices (dialogue, point of view, omission, and/or thematic development)
- Symbols as characters
- An author's use of archetypes to create a character's identity