Course Profile   Studies in Literature (ETS4U), Grade 12, University Preparation, Catholic

 

Unit 3:  Mythopoeic Criticism

Time:  20 hours

 

Activity 3.1 | Activity 3.2 | Activity 3.3 | Activity 3.4 | Activity 3.5

 

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to a variety of archetypes from various sources (e.g., myth, fable, fairy tale, scripture). Students are encouraged to keep a journal of their reactions and responses to text; journal entries should explore archetypal representations in sources used. As a pre-reading activity, students discuss familiar stories to recognize the role of archetypes within the novel. Essay excerpts from Carl Jung and Northrop Frye will provide further preparation for writing an analytical essay.

Unit Synopsis Chart

Activity

Time

Learning Expectations

Assessment Categories

Tasks

3.1
The Familiar Stories

2.5 hours

RI2.01, RT1.01
CGE5e, CGE5f

Knowledge/ Understanding Application

Students read and discuss common stories found in fairy tale, fable and myth and present a contemporary version of each.

3.2
The Prodigal Son

4 hours

RIV.03, RTV.02, RIV.02, RT2.02, RI3.04
CGE1a, CGE1c CGE4b, CGE4g CGE7f

Communication Application

The students perform a guided reading of the scriptural story The Prodigal Son and create tableaux depicting interpretations of rebellion, restoration, reconciliation, return, and restitution.

3.3
Novel Study

5 hours

RIV.01, RI4.02, RI1.03, RT1.02, RI1.04
CGE2a, CGE2e, CGE3e, CGE5b, CGE7f

Thinking/ Inquiry Application

With pre-reading and pre-writing activities, students prepare a round table discussion that highlights mythopoeic elements in the novel. In groups, students are assigned archetypes applicable to: a) narrative design, b) character, and c) imagery.

3.4
Essays of Jung and Frye

3 hours

RIV.01, RTV.02, RI1.03, RT1.03, RI3.02
CGE3b, CGE4e, CGE5b

Knowledge/ Understanding Communication Thinking/ Inquiry

Given essays or essay excerpts from Northrop Frye and Carl Jung, students write a précis and propose a thesis for a formal essay. In a focus group discussion, students will listen and contribute ideas to clarify and focus individual ideas and theses. This activity culminates in a writer’s contract.

3.5
Analytical Essay

5.5 hours

RIV.02, RTV.01, RI1.03, RT1.02, RI2.01, RI3.01, RI3.03, RI3.04, RI4.01,
CGE2b, CGE2e, CGE4f, CGE5b, CGE5g

Knowledge/ Understanding Thinking/ Inquiry Communication Application

Students continue research of the novel and mythopoeic elements on an individual basis. The writing process in this activity includes planning, first drafts, revising, redrafting, editing, and publishing.

 

Activity 3.1:  The Familiar Stories

Time:  2.5 hours

Description

Students read the chosen novel a week prior to the commencement of this unit. Students then read and discuss common stories found in fairy tale, fable or myth and present a contemporary version of each. Suggested common stories include Beauty and the Beast, The Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Creation Myth, The Rough Faced Girl, Demeter and Persephone, Eurydice and Orpheus.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations

CGE5e - respects the rights, responsibilities and contributions of self and others;

CGE5f - exercises Christian leadership in the achievement of individual and group goals.

Strand(s):  Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts, Responding to Literary Texts

Specific Expectations

RI2.01 - identify elements of literary forms and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating meaning and enhancing the impact of texts;

RT1.01 - explain ideas, intuitions, and feelings evoked by literature.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Students should be able to:

·     analyse how key elements of literary forms, other than novels and poetry, are used to enhance meaning;

·     organize ideas to suit specific forms and purposes for writing;

·     communicate orally in large and small group discussions;

·     use techniques of oral presentation to communicate effectively.

Planning Notes

·     Teachers provide the students with a copy of the novel for independent reading one week before this unit of study commences.

·     Teachers should encourage students to bring to class myths, fables, and fairy tales from their cultural background in preparation for the jigsaw activity.

·     Teachers are reminded of the importance of being sensitive to cultural stories and perspectives and should instruct the students accordingly.

·     Teachers should compile a collection of myths, fairy tales, or fables that deal with a common archetype (e.g., beauty, wisdom, wilderness, fate, greed etc.)

Teaching/Learning Strategies

3.1: Directed Reading: As a whole-class activity, the teacher leads students through an analysis of a specific “archetypal” text e.g., The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Demeter and Persephone, Eurydice and Orpheus. They analyse each for themes, message and relevance to the human experience. Note: Archetypal texts refer to fables, fairy tales or myths that communicate universal, cross-cultural experiences and values.

3.1.2: Jigsaw: In expert groups, students select an archetypal text from those pooled together (see planning notes). Students then analyse the text for themes, messages, and relevance to the human experience. The expert group members then return to their home groups to relate the narrative, the values, and experiences associated with it. Home group members then record on chart paper the universal themes, messages, and relevance to human experience to be posted in the classroom for viewing throughout the unit.

3.1.3 Reading of Literature: The students have received the novel for independent reading and are now encouraged to seek out the archetypal elements of narrative design, character, and imagery. Students record their impressions in a response journal as they proceed through the novel.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Appendix 3A – Formative evaluation of Archetypes Worksheet (To be applied in 3.3.1 The Novel Study)

Accommodations

The teacher should:

·     provide supplemental reading materials for gifted students. (e.g., have students focus on works of one author);

·     consult student IEPs for specific directions on accommodation.

Resources

The Rough Faced Girl. Aesop. Aesop’s Fables. Dover Publications, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0486280209

Anderson, Hans Christian. The Classic Treasury of Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales. Running Press Book Publishers, 1997. ISBN 0762401850

Doty, William. Mythography: The study of myths and rituals. University of Alabama Press, 1986.

Downing, Christine, ed. The long journey home: Re-visioning the myth of Demeter and Persephone for our time. Boston: Shambhala, 1994.

Snider, Clifton. The stuff that dreams are made on: A Jungian interpretation of literature. Wilmette, Illinois: Chiron Publications, 1991.

Stevens, Anthony. Archetypes: A natural history of the self. New York: Quill, 1983. Von Franz, Marie-Louise. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairytales. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1970.

Appendix

Refer to Appendix 3A – Identification of Archetypes in the Novel

 

Activity 3.2:  The Prodigal Son

Time:  4 hours

Description

The narrative design of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15 11-32) represents another archetype common to literature. The students are to apply the archetype of the Prodigal Son in a contemporary manner, by creating tableaux depicting situations of rebellion, reconciliation, restoration, return, and restitution.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations

CGE1a - illustrates a basic understanding of the saving story of our Christian faith;

CGE1c - actively reflects on God’s word as communicated through the Hebrew and Christian scriptures;

CGE4b - demonstrates flexibility and adaptability;

CGE4g - examines and reflects on one’s personal values, abilities and aspirations influencing life’s choices and opportunities;

CGE7f - respects and affirms the diversity and interdependence of the world’s peoples and cultures.

Strand(s):  Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts, Responding to Literary Texts

Overall Expectations

RIV.03 - demonstrate an understanding of a range of critical interpretations of literary Texts;

RIV.02 - demonstrate an understanding of how form, diction, syntax, voice, and style are used - to communicate meaning and enhance the impact of literary texts;

RTV.02 - produce creative responses to a range of literary texts and criticism.

Specific Expectations

RI3.04 - analyse literary texts by applying key literary concepts;

RT2.02 - adapt a character, scene, or idea from a literary text for presentation in another form or medium.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Students should be able to use techniques of oral presentation to communicate effectively, with a focus on clear organization, relevant examples, appropriate vocabulary and style, repetition for emphasis, and the use of voice projection, pace, posture, timing, body language, visual aids, and technology.

Planning Notes

·     Refer to Appendix 3B for instructions for introducing tableau.

·     Teachers should be sensitive to the personal nature of the experience and support students in avoiding disclosure and discussion of sensitive issues.

·     Teachers should obtain copies of The Prodigal Son for students (Luke 15 11-32).

·     Teachers are advised to remind students about the suitability of the content for their narrative designs.

Teaching/Learning Strategies

3.2.1 Teacher-Directed Reading: Before reading the parable of The Prodigal Son, the teacher requires the students to achieve consensus on a definition for the following stages of the narrative: rebellion, reconciliation, restoration, return and, restitution. After reading the story, the students are to identify the stages of the narrative by retelling the part of the story in which the stage occurs.

3.2.2 Tableau (See Appendix 3B – Strategies for the use of Tableau.): Students are to create a tableau of the narrative design for The Prodigal Son.

3.2.3 Application of Archetype to a Modern Parable: Student groups create a modern parable in which they implement the narrative design of rebellion, reconciliation, restoration, return, and restitution in a modern teenage experience. This narrative design is an archetype, just as a character could be an archetype. The students present their versions of the archetype through a tableau. Note: students may choose to employ a narrative commentary to add clarity to the tableaux.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Appendix 3B – Strategies for Tableaux and Evaluation Checklist

Accommodations

The teacher should:

·     select an environment suitable for dramatizations (e.g., drama room, gymnasium) or make provisions within individual classrooms;

·     provide immediate, specific feedback on progress with tableaux whenever possible;

Resources

The New Catholic Study Bible, St. Jerome Edition. New York: Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc. 1985.

Scult, Allen, McGee, Michael Calvin, and Hunt, J. Kenneth. “Genesis and power: An analysis of the Biblical story of creation.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 72 (1986): 113-131.

Appendix

Appendix 3B – Strategies for Tableaux and Evaluation Checklist

 

Activity 3.3 Novel Study

Time:  5 hours

Description

This unit focuses on applying mythopoeic criticism to a novel study. Students undertake activities such as pre-writing, directed reading, small group discussion, and sketching to learn to identify and discuss archetypes in the novel.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations

CGE2a - listens actively and critically to understand and learn in light of gospel values.

CGE2e - uses and integrates the Catholic faith tradition, in the critical analysis of the arts, media, technology, and information systems to enhance the quality of life;

CGE3e - adopts a holistic approach to life by integrating learning from various subject areas and experience;

CGE5b - thinks critically about the meaning and purpose of work;

CGE7f - respects and affirms the diversity and interdependence of the world’s peoples and cultures.

Strand(s):  Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts, Responding to Literary Texts

Overall Expectations

RIV.01 - read and demonstrate an understanding of a range of literary texts from various periods and countries.

Specific Expectations

RT1.02 - produce critical responses to ideas, themes, and issues presented in a range of literary texts;

RI1.03 - select, use, and adapt reading strategies to interpret challenging literary texts;

RI1.04 - analyse how literary texts provide insight into diverse human experiences and perspectives.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

The students should be able to:

·     select specific and relevant evidence from texts and use it to support interpretations;

·     communicate orally in group discussions applying such skills as preparing for discussion, contributing relevant information, summarizing main ideas of the discussion, and accepting group decisions;

·     select and use vocabulary and figurative language to express themselves clearly.

Planning Notes

·     As with a novel study, the choices are too numerous to list. The novels listed in the resource section are suggestions only.

·     Teachers should post the work generated in the literature circles in the classroom for the remainder of the unit to allow time for the students to examine and consider the archetypes for their analytical essay.

·     If students wish to limit their comments regarding the archetypes to an analytical nature rather than a personal one, then that should be allowed.

Teaching/Learning Strategies

3.3.1 Directed Reading: Students complete the worksheet of Appendix 3A (made available to students in Activity 3.1.1) in which they are challenged to identify archetypes related to character, narrative design, and imagery.

3.3.2 Journal Entry: Instruct the students to write a journal reflection identifying archetypes or aspects of an archetype that they find particularly interesting or compelling.

3.3.3 Sketching to Learn: Students are to include with their journal entry a pictorial representation of the archetype. Encourage students to refrain from drawing “typical” examples of heroes; rather, the exercise should take the form of identifying aspects of abstract concepts such as heroism, the scapegoat, the quest, paradise, etc.

3.3.4 Literature Circles: The preceding exercises constitute pre-writing exercises for the literature circle. Students in small groups refer to these writing exercises as they take turns revealing perceptions and clarifying ideas related to archetypes in the novel. These perceptions are shared and recorded on chart paper within the group so that each student has the opportunity to record their interpretation. Students are invited to attach their sketches of the archetype to the paper.

3.3.5: Round Table: The teacher encourages the students to delve deeper into the layers of the novel by posing key questions that concentrate on the symbolic aspects of the archetype(s) and their meaning.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

As the round table discussion occurs, the teacher should visit each group to determine if the students understand the nature of archetype and are able to identify archetypes in the novel of study. The opportunity exists for the teacher to ask leading questions to elicit examples of archetype in the novel.

Accommodations

·     The teacher should seek out opportunities to provide positive feedback to those students who express themselves more successfully in pictorial/graphic form than they would in writing.

·     Challenge gifted students to draw comparisons with archetypes found in other novels, poetry, short stories, and other media.

Resources

Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride. Toronto: McClelland And Stewart, 1993. ISBN 007100821X

Callaghan, Morley. Such Is My Beloved. 1996. ISBN 077109955X

More Joy in Heaven. 1996. ISBN 0771099568

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Dover Publications, 2001. ISBN 0486419347

Davies, Robertson. Fifth Business. Penguin Books of Canada Ltd., 1996. ISBN 0140260498

Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel. McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1998. ISBN 077104707X

Findley, Timothy. Not Wanted on the Voyage. Markham: Penguin, 1985. ISBN 014007306X

Orwell, George. 1984. Plume Books, 1989. ISBN 0452262933

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. ISBN 0553212478

* See Resource List for Course Overview ETS4U

Appendix

Appendix 3A – Identification of Archetypes in the Novel

 

Activity 3.4:  Essays of Jung and Frye

Time:  3 hours

Description

From essays pre-selected by the teacher, students examine ideas proposed by Carl Jung, Northrop Frye, and their critics. Crucial to this activity is the students’ success in reading the text closely for information and understanding key concepts and specialized terms in literary criticism.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations

CGE3b - creates, adapts, and evaluates new ideas in light of the common good;

CGE4e - sets appropriate goals and priorities in school, work, and personal life;

CGE5b - thinks creatively about the meaning and purpose of work.

Strand(s):  Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts, Responding to Literary Texts

Overall Expectations

RIV.01 - read and demonstrate an understanding of a range of literary texts from various periods and countries;

RTV.02 - produce creative responses to a range of literary texts and criticism.

Specific Expectations

RI1.03 - select, use, and adapt reading strategies to interpret challenging literary texts;

RI3.02 - demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and specialized terms in literary criticism;

RT1.03 - produce critical responses to interpretations of texts and theories of literary criticism.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

The student should be able to:

·     apply the format for précis writing;

·     use critical listening skills to understand, ask questions to confirm understanding, and to write accurate messages.

Planning Notes

The teacher is to pre-select a variety of essays from Carl Jung and Northrop Frye that pertain to myth and archetype in literature, or essays in criticism on the aforementioned scholars.

Teaching/Learning Strategies

3.4.1 Pre-writing (Individual Reading, Locating and Rereading Passages, Scanning Text): The teacher is to distribute the essays or essay excerpts to the students instructing them to: a) complete an initial reading, b) highlight key concepts, c) write a précis.

3.4.2 Jung and Frye Focus Group: The teacher is to organize students in heterogeneous groupings of essays on Jung, Frye and respective critics, and proponents to discuss key ideas in each essay. Students are to take notes while in the focus group to build on arguments, clarify ideas and generate support for their analytical essay.

3.4.3 Journal Response: While in the focus group discussion for analysis, the student is to generate a journal response to a peer that responds to one or more ideas he or she proposed. This provides an opportunity for the student to have written proof of collaboration with another student on his or her essay.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Teachers could provide formative or summative evaluation for the précis.

Accommodations

The teacher should:

·     allow additional time where necessary, for completion of reading activities;

Resources

Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1990.

Frye, Northrop. Words With Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Frye, Northrop. The Educated Imagination. Toronto: CBC Publications, 1963.

Jung, C.G. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1959.

Jung, Carl G. The Portable Jung. Ed. J. Campbell. New York: Viking, 1971.

Stevens, Anthony. On Jung. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.

Storr, Anthony. The Essential Jung. Princeton University Press, 1983.

 

Activity 3.5:  Analytical Essay

Time:  5.5 hours

Description

The students complete the remainder of the writing process. Students draw connections between their reading research and the novel of study, as well as provide feedback to their peers on their ideas. The activity represents the culmination of the unit of study: a formal analytical essay.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations

CGE2b - reads, understands, and uses written material effectively;

CGE2e - uses and integrates the Catholic faith tradition, in the critical analysis of the arts, media, technology, and information systems to enhance the quality of life;

CGE4f - applies effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, time and resource management skills;

CGE5b - thinks critically about the meaning and purpose of work;

CGE5g - achieves excellence, originality, and integrity in one’s own work and supports these qualities in the work of others.

Strand(s):  Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts, Responding to Literary Texts

Overall Expectations

RIV.02 - demonstrate an understanding of how form, diction, syntax, voice, and style are used to communicate meaning and enhance the impact of literary texts;

RTV.01 - produce personal and critical responses to a range of literary texts and criticism.

Specific Expectations

RI1.03 - select, use, and adapt reading strategies to interpret challenging literary texts;

RI2.01 - identify elements of literary forms and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating meaning and enhancing the impact of texts;

RI3.01 - analyse and assess their own and others’ responses to a range of literary texts;

RI3.03 - analyse and assess critical interpretations of literary texts researched through the use of print and electronic sources;

RI3.04 - analyse literary texts by applying key literary concepts;

RI4.01 - analyse the relationships between literary texts and the social, cultural, and political contexts in which they were created;

RT1.02 - produce critical responses to ideas, themes, and issues presented in a range of literary texts.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Students are to be able to:

·     employ knowledge of the writing process;

·     use critical-listening skills to understand, ask questions to confirm understanding, and to write accurate messages;

·     select and use a voice and style appropriate to academic writing;

·     use essay structure and patterns such as induction, deduction, analogy, cause and effect, and climactic order to organize information and ideas in essays;

·     revise drafts to ensure an effective style and improve clarity of expression.

Planning Notes

·     Students are expected to submit with their process work, the journal response from their peer in the previous activity.

·     The teacher makes a number of sample essay topics available to the students to facilitate selecting a topic that is viable, considering the amount of time allotted for this activity.

Teaching/Learning Strategies

3.5.1 Writer’s Contract: The students locate sources of information and ask pertinent questions about the subject in order to draft a thesis for their analytical essays. Once the research and brainstorming is complete, the students submit a writer’s contract to the teacher. (Appendix 3D). After conferencing with the students, the teacher may choose to approve the contract or consult further with the student.

3.5.2 Student Essay Focus Group Discussion: After approval and consultation with the teacher, students meet in small groups to discuss theses, arguments, counter-arguments and resources. The students have the opportunity to build on each other’s arguments, to clarify ideas, and support statements made. This concludes with the student submitting an MLA format essay outline to the teacher before commencing their rough draft of the essay.

3.5.3 Writing Process: The essay process continues with drafting, editing, revising, and publishing. Attention should be paid to opportunities for peer and teacher editing or conferencing.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Appendix 3C – Rubric for Analytical Essay

Appendix 3D – Writer’s Contract

Accommodations

The teacher should:

·     provide more time for in-depth completion of writing;

·     where appropriate, compact lessons regarding mechanics of writing and facilitate learning of more advanced editing skills;

·     provide opportunities for electronic collaboration, such as e-mail and collaborating functions found in word-processing software.

Resources

Hacker, Diana. A Canadian Writer’s Reference. Nelson Thomson Learning, 2001.

Corel Word Perfect Suite 8 (e.g., highlight function, text bubble functions for editing)

Appendices

Appendix 3C – Rubric for Analytical Essay

Appendix 3D – Writer’s Contract


Appendix 3A

Worksheet – Identification of Archetypes in the Novel

 

Use this worksheet to record impressions of the novel that you believe are archetypal in nature. In the following sections, consider character, plot, and narrative design.

 

Part A: Character Archetypes

(e.g., The ugly duckling, the evil dictator, the scapegoat, the hero/saviour, the wise old man, the rebel, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part B: Narrative Design Archetypes

(e.g., Death and rebirth, the quest, recognizing true beauty, trials and tests for the hero, the movement from innocence to experience, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part C: Archetypal Imagery

(e.g., Paradise, hell, nakedness, wilderness, light/wisdom, etc.)

 


Appendix 3B

Strategies for Tableau

 

Considerations for Tableau

1.   Freeze                    2. Facial Expression                   3. Levels                       4. Blocking

 

1.   Freeze: The students maintain a “freeze” position by relaxing all parts of the body and breathing slowly.

2.   Facial Expression: Facial expression is achieved by the student internalizing the character or inanimate object.

3.   Levels: Physical levels (e.g., floor, waist, shoulder, and above) create further interest in the tableau by making students aware of height and dimension within the form created.

4.   Blocking: Blocking is achieved when the students know where to stand, sit, etc., within the tableau.

 

Directions

In groups of five, the students create a tableau illustrating the narrative design of “The Prodigal Son.” The groups create a tableau of rebellion. The teacher allows approximately one minute for the tableau to be created and proceeds to circulate and give positive criticism to the creations. It is important to recognise the differences and similarities of the tableaux.

Continue with the same process illustrating reconciliation, restoration, return and restitution.

* Props are not used to create tableaux. Students are to create objects with their bodies e.g., walls, doors and different environments. This allows for all group members to participate.

 

Checklist Evaluation

Teachers examine the tableaux of student groups. Have they considered all aspects of tableaux to effectively communicate meaning in the archetypal narrative design?

 

Narrative Design

Freeze

Facial Expression

Levels

Blocking

Rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

Reconciliation

 

 

 

 

 

Restoration

 

 

 

 

 

Return

 

 

 

 

 

Restitution

 

 

 

 

 

Teacher Comments

 


Appendix 3C

Rubric Evaluation: Analytical Essay

Description:  Write an analytical essay based on research and a
                        mythopoeic/archetypal analysis of the novel.

Student Expectations:

1.   Identify elements of literary forms and evaluate their effectiveness in communicating meaning and enhancing the impact of texts.

2.   Analyse and assess critical interpretations of literary texts researched through the use of print and electronic sources.

3.   Analyse literary texts by applying key literary concepts (e.g., explain the use of archetypes in a novel).

4.   Produce critical responses to ideas, themes, and issues presented in a range of literary texts.

5.   Select, use, and adapt reading strategies to interpret challenging literary texts.

 

Categories

Level 1
(50-59%)

Level 2
(60-69%)

Level 3
(70-79%)

Level 4
(80-100%)

Knowledge/ Understanding

Understanding of information, ideas, concepts, or themes

- demonstrates limited understanding of information, ideas, concepts, or themes

- demonstrates some understanding of information, ideas, concepts, or themes

- demonstrates considerable understanding of information, ideas, concepts, or themes

- demonstrates thorough and insightful understanding of information, ideas, concepts, or themes

Thinking/Inquiry

Critical and creative thinking skills (e.g., reflecting, analyzing, hypothesizing)

- uses critical and creative thinking skills with limited effectiveness

- uses critical and creative thinking skills with some effectiveness

- uses critical and creative thinking skills with considerable effectiveness

- uses critical and creative thinking skills with a high degree of effectiveness

Communication

Communication of information and ideas

- communicates information and ideas with limited clarity

- communicates information and ideas with some clarity

- communicates information and ideas with considerable clarity

 communicates information and ideas with a high degree of clarity, and with confidence

Application

Application of key concepts, reading strategies, proper MLA format and writing mechanics

- uses these concepts, skills, and strategies with limited competence

- uses these concepts, skills, and strategies with some competence

- uses these concepts, skills, and strategies with considerable competence

- uses these concepts, skills, and strategies with a high degree of competence

Note: A student whose achievement is below Level 1 (50%) has not met the expectations for this assignment or activity.


Appendix 3D

Sample Student Writer’s Contract

 

Student Name: _______________________________

Title of classroom essay of Jung or Frye (provided by the teacher)

Main ideas:

Identify four or five main ideas from the essay. List them as definitive statements.

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Formulating questions:

Devise two or three pertinent questions related to the ideas presented in the classroom essay.

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Thesis Statement:

Write a thesis statement for your essay. Draw a connection between one or more of these questions and definitive statements with the novel.

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Additional Research:

List additional sources of information (books, reviews, Internet) useful in the production of the analytical essay.

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Teacher Comments:

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