Winner of the 2015 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award Perspectives of
Power explores the nature of power in literature, historical
documents, poetry, and art. Lessons include a major focus on
rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common
themes and content-rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional
texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for
Talented Youth and aligned to the Common Core State Standards
(CCSS), guides students to explore the power of oppression; the
power of the past, present, and future; and the power of personal
response by engaging in simulations, skits, creative projects,
literary analyses, Socratic seminars, and debates. Texts illuminate
content extensions that interest many high-ability students
including bystander effect, social class structure, game theory,
the use and abuse of technology, cultural conflict, the butterfly
effect, women's suffrage, and surrealism as each relates to power.
Lessons include close readings with text-dependent questions,
choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative
assessments, and ELA writing tasks that require students to analyze
texts for rhetorical features, literary elements, and themes
through argument, explanatory, and/or prose-constructed writing.
Ideal for pre-AP and honors courses, the unit features texts from
Emily Dickinson, William B. Yeats, and Charles Perrault; art from
Moyo Okediji and Salvador Dali; and speeches by Elie Wiesel, Susan
B. Anthony, and John F. Kennedy. As a result from the learning in
the unit, students will be able to examine powerful influences in
their own lives and identify their own power in personal
responsibility. Grades 6-8
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