*Course+Overview+and+Objectives

5-23-2012
Email: tappd@district140.org Phone: 309-467-2361 ext 6661

Shakespeare //Romeo and Juliet// Online
 * __ Course Description __**

This online course examines the life of Shakespeare and his tragic play //Romeo and Juliet//. //Romeo and Juliet// continues to be one of the world’s most famous and alluded to love stories. This course guides students through a reading of the play and a basic look at the author’s life. Students are required to use technology and online applications and tools to integrate what they have learned and discovered into discussions, individual assignments, and a collaborative group project. This course will last four (4) weeks. This is a short time to read and create quite a bit of material, but with the help of technology, it is quite attainable.


 * __ Course Objectives __ : Common Core Standards **


 * RL.9-10.2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
 * By reading the text and answering Act questions, students will experience the development of the plot of the play and of the characters.
 * Students will recognize and identify themes throughout the play.


 *  Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
 * Students will identify and analyze through journals and guided Act questions character development, attitudes, and motivations.
 * Through acquired knowledge of types of speeches in drama, students will infer character attitudes and feelings towards other characters and events in the play.


 * RL.9-10.6. Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
 * Through guided reading and questions, students will read and comprehend William Shakespeare's //Romeo and Juliet//.
 * Based on study of the author's background and history, and historical context of the play, students will understand and apply concepts and cultural values to make judgements of character actions.


 * RL.9-10.9. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
 * Students will use knowledge of the concept of allusion to compare themes from Shakespeare to other modern works of art (music).


 * __ Course Tasks __**


 * Respond to two group discussion questions posed in the discussion section of the classroom wiki and reply to two classmate postings per discussion question.
 * Complete the questions for each act of the play by the due dates, post to GoogleDocs and send via email to the instructor (tappd@district140.org).
 * Complete and submit via email and/or GoogleDocs two journal entries based on assigned prompts.
 * Participate in and complete the group project utilizing Skype and GoogleDocs: Creation of a modern epilogue of the play.


 * __ Tools required __**


 * Adobe Flash- PDF reader (Needed to read play)
 * [|www.google.com] GoogleDocs (utilized for group writing)
 * Skype—www.skype.com (utilized for group collaboration)
 * email (utilized for group communication and sending assignments to instructor)
 * Wikispace account (needed to post on discussion board)