S1+Smart,+Darren

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results=
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts- A. Reading
 * A2 Literary Texts
 * Grades 9-Diploma Watchmen
 * Students read text, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and present analyzes of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry using excerpts from the text to defend their assertions.
 * Evaluate the theme or themes, whether explicitly stated or implied, in a literary text. ||

//What understandings are desired?//

 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * * Achieving justice is relative to the characters or persons involved.
 * During their time, heroes reflect cultural perspectives on important current events.
 * The use of symbolism and imagery emphasizes tone and important plot elements. ||

//What essential questions will be considered?//

 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * * Why is it important for artists and the media to create heroes?
 * To what extent is justice considered altruistic?
 * Why is symbolism and imagery able to emphasize aspects of a story? ||

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
Evaluate the themes found in //Watchmen//__.__ Design a creative work that utilizes symbolism, imagery, and the aspects of a hero. Compare and contrast each character’s moral ideals Consider the role of symbolism and imagery in the interpretation of a story Reflect on //Watchmen// and determine which characters can be considered heroes. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * * //Vocabulary:// graphic novel, holism, reductionism, justice, moral, hero, mood, tone, imagery, repetition, symbolism.
 * //Important people//: Minutemen, Rorschach, Ozymandias, Dr. Manhatten, Comedian, Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, the Tales of the Black Freighter
 * //Critical details//: character reactions, relationships, perspectives, sequence of plot, subplots ||
 * Justify each character’s perspective on justice.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**