Final Period

UNIT 10: THE RHETORICS OF THE SPIRIT: ARTICULATING FAITH AND

RELIGION
Essential Questions

Enduring Understanding
Literature is teeming with humankinds attempts to
articulate faith and religion.
Week

Content
Standards

Declarative
Knowledge

Demonstrate
understanding
of poetry as a
means of
expressing
ones faith and
religion

The inspiring
presence of a
divine power in
Innermost One
by
Rabindranath
Tagore

Functional
knowledge
Identifying
how faith and
religion is
articulated in
the poem
Recognizing how
the poetic
devices aid in
the articulation
of faith

Course Code
(LIT 101)

How does one view faith and religion?

How does one exercise faith and religion?
How does literature help shape ones idea of faith and religion?
Intended
Learning
Outcomes (ILOs)

Teaching/Learn
ing Activities
(TLAs)

Show the presence of

God in nature, within
and among human
beings through an
artistic illustration
/medium

Drawing of ones
image of God
(through a
symbol)
providing a brief
explanation
A creative
activity
expressing ones
relationship with
God

Assessment Tasks
(ATs)
Illustration

Poetry writing
Song

Demonstrate
understanding
of Gods
presence
which resides
in all of his
wonderful
creations
Demonstrate
understanding
that it is
through
communing
with nature
that one feels
Gods presence

Demonstrate
understanding
of the use of
poetic devices
and how they
help in the
poets
exaltation of
God

The
personifications
of an omnipresent
Almighty in
Gods Grandeur
by Gerald Manley
Hopkin
and
Inside the River
by Rumi

Discovering
faith and
religions
association with
nature

Describe the extent of

Gods grandeur as
expressed by the
persona through a
music video capturing
the presence of God in
Recognizing how ordinary things
images are
utilized to
illustrate the
manifestations
of Gods power
and might

Music video
festival

Poster making on the

role of nature in
developing ones
spirituality
Prayer writing

Underscoring
lines which show
how humankind
has destroyed
Gods wondrous
creations
The unfaltering
guidance of the
Divine Providence
and
consequences of
mans actions in
Psalm 23
by King David
and
The Second
Coming

Recognizing
figures of
speech such as
metaphors and
connecting them
with faith and
religion
Underscoring
the lines which

Interpret the two

poems and analyze
the literary devices
found in the texts. Cite
how the personas
translate/express their
belief or perception of
God through a
comparison and
contrast analysis.

A comparison
and contrast of
the two poems
through either a
Venn Diagram or
a T chart

Tableau

Reflective essay

by
William Butler
Yeats

exalt God
reverently