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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= Content Area: Reading Grade Level: 8 Domain: Literature //Romeo & Juliet// Standard: Craft and Structure ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Common Core State Standards

//What understandings are desired?//
• comparing and contrasting texts and characters contributes to its meaning • characters and audiences point of view create the theme in literature (such as humor, romance, suspense) ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • they will read increasingly complex text

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How does this novel show how much I've improved as a reader? • How does this text relate to previous ones and how are they different? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • Why does this character act the way it does and how does that contribute to the meaning of the text?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
Capulets, Romeo, Juliet, fight between the families, Mercutio, Tybalt, Benvolio • Critical Details: Capulets and Montagues hate one another, Romeo and Juliet are forbidden love • Definitions: drama, sonnet, tragedy, oxymoron, personification || • predict what each character is trying to say. • make meaning of Shakespeare's language. • decide how the families shape the whole play. • analyze how a character shapes the theme/meaning of the play. • consider the point of view of characters. • self-assess how much you learned from the text. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Important Events and people:Montagues,


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