English 9 · Week 30 · Poetry, Drama, and Resilience
Impulsive Choices on Stage
Students analyze how a character's impulsive decisions drive the plot and create dramatic irony.
- Students will
- Students analyze how a character's impulsive decisions drive the plot and create dramatic irony.
- SEL skill
- Pause between a strong feeling and a choice
- What it looks like
- Students practice pausing between a strong feeling and a choice.
- Content focus
- Character decisions and dramatic structure
- Format
- Role play
Responsible decision-making
Responsible decision-making is making caring and constructive choices after considering right and wrong, safety, and consequences. More responsible decision-making activities
What you get
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Standards
- RL.9-10.3: Reading: Literature, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 3
- RL.9-10.5: Reading: Literature, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 5
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.9-10.6 Reading and viewing closely; ELD.PII.9-10.1 Understanding text structure
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Drama
- Popular books named: Romeo and Juliet
Fits these textbook chapters
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- Does the Evidence Hold Up? Responsible decision-makingStudents delineate and evaluate an argument, assessing whether reasoning is valid and evidence is sufficient.
- How Words Move Us Responsible decision-makingStudents determine an author's purpose and analyze how rhetoric advances it.
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