S1+Kahler,+Michael

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= Content area: Reading Grade Level: 11-12 Domain: Literature Standard: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories,drama, and poems, in the grade 11 CCR text complexity band proficiency, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Common Core State Standards

//What understandings are desired?//
•Read and comprehend a wide range of texts. •Learn to work through upper level material. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •Adequate exposure to range of texts including poems, dramas, and stories.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•Why do I need to be exposed to a wide range of pieces in different mediums? •How do I work through higher level material? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How do I understand complex literary and informal texts?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
themes, reading strategies, mediums, style, plot, characters. •Terminology: Poem, Novel, theme, speaker, short story, tone, symbol, speaker, Metaphor. •Important people and Events: Gatsby, Tom, Nick, Daisy, the green light, Gatsby's death. || •**Exhibit** an understanding of many texts in various mediums. •**Evaluate** the significance of many pieces of literature. •**Create** new strategies to get through readings. •**Analyze** texts and their meanings. •**Consider** the role of __The Great Gatsby__ as a piece of literature. •**Recognize** strengths and weakness in your reading ability. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •Critical Details: significance of works, interconnectedness of themes,


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**