Wrap up your literary analysis unit with a discussion activity as tenth graders prepare for an end-of-unit assessment. After they have read and annotated Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepard to His Love," Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard," and William Carlos Williams's "Raleigh Was Right," they use the attached worksheet to prepare for an informative writing prompt in the next lesson plan.

Concepts

reading comprehension, literary analysis, literary elements, literary themes, poetry, poetry analysis, poetic structure, central ideas, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Project the graphic organizer onto the board for your class to discuss together
• Divide groups into the jigsaw discussion based on existing literature circles

Classroom Considerations

• Includes the speaking and listening rubric and analysis checklist in the resource, which is needed for additional lessons before this one
• The sixth of seven lessons in the unit

Pros

• Provides worksheets for learners to track their notes, quotes, and analytic connections explicitly 
• Promotes critical thinking across different works of literature
• Aligned to writing, reading, speaking, and listening to Common Core standards

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.9 W.9-10.2.a W.9-10.2.b SL.9-10.1.a