Life of Galileo UBD Essential Questions: How do we communicate? Can literature serve as a vehicle for social change?

To what extent does power or lack of power impact people? Enduring Understandings: Authorship is an important way to make your voice heard and influence society. People who feel powerless often find a way to make a difference. Content Literary Elements -Theme -Characterization -Plot Structure Scientific Revolution Enlightennment French Revolution Latin American Revolutions Brecht's life Materials Cuban Blogger/ Juan of the Dead. Video of play being performed Audio of play being performed Copernic and Ptolemaic models of Uverse Performance Task Students will adapt a historical event into a narrative that makes an argument about a current issue. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Activities Skills Prewriting-outlining Using Evidence from text Comparison & contrast of events in history & today Descriptive Language Reading informational text, adapting it into a narrative

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Learning goal

Learning Activity

Assessment Discussion response sheet using evidence from class talk.

Articulate opinion on what it takes Anticipation guide, to have your voice heard, and the graded discussion on impact of new ideas on society. themes of play.

First 5 pages Analyze how Brecht characterizes Galileo and Andrea

Read aloud think aloud . Double entry diary with quotes from characters, and what it says about them. Journal entry: What themes does Gallileo touch on in his speech?

Galileo's speech

Determine the theme of a work and Study & highlight analyze how the author reveals the Galileo's speech. Read theme: power of new ideas, aloud. Spirit read parts

importance of having voice heard.

students underlined.

What does he feel is important? How does the author begin to reveal the theme of the play? Journal: How did different characters react to Galileo's new idea? What does that tell you about these characters? Why would Brecht use these specific characters to be the people reacting to this new idea?

Galileo explain the model

Analyze a theme of Life of Galileo: Warm up: Journal The power of new ideas. prompt. Is it hard to teach someone a new idea? Have you ever been forced to think differently by new information? How do people react to new ideas? Watch video of Galileo explaining models of systems to Andrea. Follow along with play, identify when Andrea gets it by underlining.

Ludovico/cur Evaluate how context plays a part ator intro in developing the argument of a the work of historical fiction. inquisition,

Read aloud threat of inquisition. Video clip about the inquisition.

Students will make context charts about the Spanish inquisition, listing facts about the inquisition and evaluating how it relates to a theme of the play. Miniature thematic essay using the information on T chart to compare and contrast work.

Intro Brecht/ Compare & contrast historical Mccartheyis events from two different time m periods.

Mini lesson video/reading on Mccarthyism in America. T chart on similarities and differences between Mccarthyism and the Inquisition.

Intro to Determine what themes could performance emerge from writing about task different content.

Students will break into groups to look at information on 4 different historical events. They should summarize the event and list one theme that they could write about using this event and why.

They will send an expert to the other groups to teach the other groups about their event. The expert must also be taught about what the other groups did. The experts will then rotate.