Unit Plan: What Makes Literature Beautiful?

Assessment Overall:
Portfolio
- Extended Definition Essay is the final project for this
- Reading responses
- Essay drafts and parts
Overarching Theme: Aesthetic Awareness
Type: Literary Period Romanticism
Sections: Music, Poetry, and Literature
Romanticism Foci:
- Individualism
- Reverence for the natural world
- Idealism
- Physical and emotional passion
- The supernatural and the mystic
- Embraced freedom and revolution in art
Workshop Writing
- Writing/composing a song
- CD project (TSYM p. 114)
- Writing poetry (understanding language and word choice and image)
- Writing papers (the process; drafts)
- Reader responses (pp. 77-81 in Writing Workshop textbook)
If each section is two weeks, I could have two responses a week on the texts read which would equal
four responses a section, and 12 totalor one response a week and make it 6 total, depending.
Could do a theme within a theme by picking one of the foci from Romanticism