The Tempest Lesson Plan | Unit Objectives
1. Through reading Shakespeare's Tempest students will study the ideas of good coming from bad, atonement and reconciliation, purification through suffering, illusion versus reality, and nature versus society.
2. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the text on four levels: factual, interpretive, critical and personal.
3. Students will analyze characters to better understand motivation for action.
4. Students will have their oral reading evaluated.
5. Students will examine Shakespeare's use of language.
6. Students will be given the opportunity to practice reading aloud and silently to improve their skills in each area.
7. Students will answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the main events and characters in Tempest as they relate to the author's theme development.
8. Students will enrich their vocabularies and improve their understanding of the play through the vocabulary lessons prepared for use in conjunction with the play.
9. The writing assignments in this unit are geared to several purposes:
a. To have students demonstrate their abilities to inform, to persuade, or to express their own personal ideas
Note: Students will demonstrate ability to write effectively to inform by developing and organizing facts to convey information. Students will demonstrate the ability to write effectively to persuade by selecting and organizing relevant information, establishing an argumentative purpose, and by designing an appropriate strategy for an identified audience. Students will demonstrate the ability to write effectively to express personal ideas by selecting a form and its appropriate elements.
b. To check the students' reading comprehension
c. To make students think about the ideas presented by the play
d. To encourage logical thinking
e. To provide an opportunity to practice good grammar and improve
students' use of the English language.