I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Isolationism

Essential Question:

Why was the Modern Era so connected to Isolationism?

Bridge:

Loneliness and Conflict

Content:

Poetry of the Modern Era

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To create the feeling of being left out by a group or a friend.

Activity: Teacher has students role play situations where someone is excluded from a group or ignored by a friend.

Assessment: Involvement, participation, and reaction of students.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To analyze the experience.

Activity: Discussion should focus on how students felt about being part of a group and being left out. How did they feel? Did they react? If so, how and why?

Assessment: Students' comments in discussion.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To have the students identify examples of isolationism and conflict in other media.

Activity: Students bring in video clips, poems, pictures, or songs about conflict or isolationism.

Assessment: Students' examples and enjoyment in sharing and explaining their selections.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To explain the historical background of the Modern Era (1914-1946).

Activity: Teacher lectures about the Modern Era: historical perspective; expatriates; Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas; Paris; themes in literature and the arts; samples of representative artists and musicians shared with class.

Assessment: Teacher observation of student understanding. Verbal checking for understanding during instruction.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To give further practice and reinforcement in identifying the theme of isolationism in poetry of the Modern Era.

Activity: Read poems. Record symbols used to express theme in different poems. Complete reading comprehension questions. (Refer to selected poems in literature text.)

Assessment: Quality and completeness of assigned work.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To allow for personal creative expression.

Activity: Students write their own poems about isolationism or design a piece of music or artwork that illustrates the theme.

Assessment: Quality and participation of students in their own work.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To assess and critique the projects.

Activity: Read poems in writing response groups. Get feedback on writing from the group. Write final draft for publication. Show posters/collages/sculpture/music to group for feedback. Make any changes.

Assessment: Student contribution to the group and response to others' criticism.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To complete and share projects with others.

Activity: Students read poems to class or share via class publication (typed on computer, copied & bound). Artwork shared with class. Music performed. Work displayed in classroom ? bulletin boards and on shelves.

Assessment: Quality of completed project and enjoyment of learning.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: