ENG3U Unit 1: Through the Lens
Five critical lenses and five public domain stories (Leacock, Chopin, Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Mansfield), ending with a lens seminar and a literary analysis essay.
How do the lenses we read through change what a story means? Students learn reader-response, gender, class, race and power, and psychological lenses, then apply them to five classic short stories included in full in a Reading Packet, plus original micro-texts.
Assessment of learning: a lens essay (Reading and Writing) and a lens seminar (Oral Communication), with rubrics.
Lessons
- What Is a Lens?
- The Close Reading Toolkit
- Money and Power
- “Désirée's Baby”
- Race, Gender and Power
- “The Yellow Wallpaper”
- Breaking Through
- “In the Land of the Free”
- “The Garden Party”
- One Story, Five Readings
- Lens Seminar
- The Lens Essay
- Draft and Peer Review
- Polish and Reflect
What you get
- A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
- Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
- Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
- A 29-page Reading Packet with all five stories in full
- Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
- A unit overview and the summative tasks and rubrics
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