Count of Monte Cristo Unit Plan

Day

Activity

Objective

Materials

One
Tuesday
Feb. 16

Introduce topic-- time

period, important events
powerpoint
handout

To understand the time

in which the CMC takes
place to have a better
understanding of the
text

Count of Monte Cristo

text chapt. 1
HW: read chapters 1-2,
highlight characters and
big events

Two
Wednesday
Feb. 17

Check handout
Powerpoint Quiz
Begin Count of Monte
Cristo Movie

Students will begin to

embark on transmedia
navigation and be
introduced to the text by
watching the movie then
reading the text

Count of Monte Cristo

movie
HW: read chapters 3-4,
highlight characters and
big events

Points

HW CH1 (5)
HW CH2 (5)
Powerpoint Quiz Open
Note (5)
Total: 15 Points

Three
Thursday
Feb. 18

Look at text
who are the main
characters thus far
who could have framed
Dantes?
check reading
handout character sheet

Students will fill out

character sheet to
comprehend reading
and critically think about
who framed Dantes.
What is the tone of each
character?

CMC text
HW: read and highlight
chapter 7-8; Finish
Worksheet

HW CH3 (5)
HW CH4 (5)

Total: 10 Points
Four
Friday
Feb. 19

big group character

discussion
character theme music

Students will use critical

thinking to understand
the characters and
choose a classical
music piece chosen by
the instructor to match a
theme song for each
character based on their
understanding of the

Classical music
HW: choose a modern
day song that fits with
the tone of each
character

HW CH7 (5)
HW CH8 (5)

character
Five
Monday
Feb. 22

Character Theme Song

Contest

Students use critical

thinking in order to
analyze everyday songs
and match them with
the characters of the
book.

Total: 10 Points
CMC text
HW: read chapters 1415, highlight characters
and main events,
comment on tone

HW CH14 (5)
HW CH15 (5)

Total: 10 Points
Six
Tuesday
Feb. 23

Introduce Final Project

CMC movie

The movie helps gain

student understanding
of the text so the
students can make a
connection

CMC movie
HW: read chapters 1617, highlight on
characters and main
events, comment on
tone

HW CH16 (5)
HW CH17 (5)

Total: 10 Points
Seven
Wednesday
Feb. 24

CMC Movie

The movie helps to fill in

the areas of text we
were not able to cover,
and gives students yet
another idea of the
characters and their
tone and personality.
We are able to critically
compare the book and
the movie as a class.

CMC text
HW: Work on final
project

Eight
Thursday
Feb. 25

Justice vs. Vengeance

debate
Discuss story

What is justice? What is

Vengeance? Which
character would choose
which?

CMC text
HW: Work on final
project

Nine
Friday

Work Day

Today allows for any

wrap up materials to be

HW: Work on final

project

Feb. 29

finished and for

students to begin and
work on their final
project

Ten
Monday
March 1

CMC Movie

The movie helps to fill in

the areas of text we
were not able to cover,
and gives students yet
another idea of the
characters and their
tone and personality.
We are able to critically
compare the book and
the movie as a class.

Final Project Due

Friday
March 4

Project Presentations

Students will have the

choice of either sharing
their project with one
other person, a small
group, or the whole
class for extra credit

Objectives:
critical thinking
exploratory thinking
argument
Common Core
-

HW: Work on final

project

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
-

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the
text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective
summary of the text.
-

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama
(e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
-

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where
to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure
and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
-

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or
recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by
Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.)

Brainstorming
-

Ideas:
defense argument for Dantes
justice vs. revenge argument
pictures vs. text game
character analysis
character theme song
is knowledge power?

http://www.shmoop.com/count-of-monte-cristo/setting.html
Times:
Edmond Dantes story spans from 1815-1838
island of Elba place of exile of Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon powerful soldier who ruled as Emperor of France in the early 1800s

people rallied behind Napoleon because he believed in equality and the individual rights of his people--- something the past kings
had not really believed in
people of France loved him but French nobility with ties from former kings of France hated him
did many great things-- build sewers and roads, created centralized bank, made education available to everyone and developed a
tax code
Napoleon waged war on many countries in Europe
he wanted to gain more control and power
he temporarily took over england by cutting off trading from Portugal and France which weakened Englands economy
when he attempted to take over Russia they used strategies against him to gain control
would retreat further and further into Russia, burning towns as they went to cut off food supplies to Napoleons armies
armies grew weak and as they retreated back to France Russia took control and exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba off the coast of
Italy
he escaped and fled to France, returned to Paris and ruled for 100 days, his small army was defeated by European powers and he
was exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean
country is in political turmoil and corruption is everywhere

Marseilles:
early 1800s was a very powerful military base and port for France
one of the largest cities in France today

Chateau dlf
Dantes spends 14 years in prison
famous island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea
completely surrounded by water, difficult to escape

Notes:
Villefort royalist
Noirtier (his father) Napoleon supporter
several characters are fueled by greed or by a desire to rise politically
what do the titles of the books mean? why are they significant
model honesty, competency, innocence---- Edmond Dants

http://www.filmeducation.org/resources/film_library/getfilm.php?film=1464
http://mazurenglish.weebly.com/the-count-of-monte-cristo.html
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/621
http://novelinks.org/pmwiki.php?n=Novels.TheCountOfMonteCristo
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1184/1184-h/1184-h.htm#linkC2HCH0001
http://literature.org/authors/dumas-alexandre/the-count-of-monte-cristo/