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Digital Unit Plan
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
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.
Unit Summary:
In this unit, students will read George Orwell’s novel, 1984, and examine how this book, written in the 1940’s, is or is not relatable to the word today. Students will meet
common core standards by completing a series of activities that focus on structure, themes, and written explanation with evidence. Students will read non-fiction texts to
relate current events to the novel and examine how the historical events from when the novel was written influenced the work. Students will also think about the ways
people choose to conform over keeping their individual ideas by examining the way the novel is structured to create change. Finally, students will think about how people can
believe two conflicting ideas at once by pulling examples from the text. Students will complete both informal and formal assessments all leading towards the completion of a
short essay and final exam. Students will work individually, in groups, and as a class to complete unit activities. Technology will be incorporated into this unit using digital
presentations, video clips, images, IPad activities, internet search, and a typed essay.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
Quick-write on privacy Concept Map: connect historical themes Essay: analyze more or more important themes from
Quiz: chapters 1-7 the text
Timeline: show progression of character change from Exam: check for reading and comprehension
individual to conforming
Questions: answer questions while citing from the
novel
Unit Resources:
Lesson1: Lecture
Prezi, Notes/ Webpage: http://santiagoliteraturelessons.weebly.com/lesson-1.html
Introductory Prezi on 1984: https://prezi.com/view/gJsXaw0ueTmokdrWL7Eb/
Assessments:
Webpage: http://santiagoliteraturelessons.weebly.com/assessments.html
Quiz: https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=how-good-is-your-geography-knowledge_295tv
Final Essay Rubric: https://www.quickrubric.com/r#/qr/malia/1984-essay
Useful Websites:
Background on the novel:
https://www.biography.com/people/george-orwell-9429833
https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/political-science-and-government/political-science-terms-and-concepts-93
Articles on Surveillance and Today :
http://www.newsweek.com/government-surveillance-likely-americans-believe-672201
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2017/09/29/how-stop-your-devices-listening-and-saving-what-you-say/715129001/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=FrxDrpi1XNU
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ipRaLa4Jw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxOKXEff4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=HV9q3PXqGPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiKsBd55aEk
Common Core Standards:
http://www.corestandards.org/
Unit Website:
http://santiagoliteraturelessons.weebly.com/
Class website:
http://msantiagoenglish.weebly.com/