L2+Mayes,+Cidney

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** LESSON PLAN FORMAT **

**Teacher’s Name:** Miss Mayes **Lesson #:** 2 **Facet:** Self-Knowledge **Grade Level:** 11-12 **Numbers of Days:** 3-4 **Topic:** Literature

__**PART I: **__

Student will understand that multiple themes develop over the course of the text. Student will know that the themes that appear in Shakespeare's Othello are enduring, and can be applied to our lives today, and the vocabulary "theme", "Heroism vs. love", "jealousy", "appearance vs. reality", and "women and sexuality." Student will be able to reflect on how themes are enduring and how they relate to their own lives. Product: PhotoShow
 * Objectives **

__**Maine Learning Results (MLR) or Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Alignment **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Common Core State Standards <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Content Area: Literature <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Grade Level: 11-12 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Domain: Literature <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standard: Key Ideas and Details <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Cluster: 1,2,3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Text: Othello by William Shakespeare

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale:** Students will explore the development of themes over the course of the text by analyzing Acts I and II of Othello. Students will understand that these themes are enduring and that they can be applied to our lives today through a visual medium.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Assessments **__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will reflect on themes using a Quick Write exercise, where students will be given a 10 to 15 minute period of time to reflect, make connections, and predictions on the subject of themes in Othello.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Formative (Assessment for Learning) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Section I – checking for understanding during instruction **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will self assess their PhotoShows using a checklist and self-assess how they contributed to their group using a self-assessment form. The teacher will use a checklist to evaluate and assess student PhotoShows.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Section II – timely feedback for products (self, peer, teacher) **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**PhotoShow (50):** With a partner, you will create a digital slide show using your own pictures and/or Creative Commons images on themes of your choice from Othello. Using images, you will connect themes to your own life and show the similarities and/or differences between them. This assignment will be assessed using a checklist and a self-assessment form.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Summative (Assessment of Learning): **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Integration **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Technology:** Students will use the website PhotoShow.com to create a visual medium that conveys their understanding of themes in Othello and how they connect to their own lives.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Art:** Students will use visuals, music, and text to create a slideshow that depicts themes from Othello and connect them to their own lives.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Groupings **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will use a Cluster/Web in a Team-Pair-Solo cooperative activity to share ideas. Students will use their Winter Partners (predetermined in a seasonal partners activity) to complete the activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Section I - Graphic Organizer & Cooperative Learning used during instruction **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will be paired in their Spring Partners when creating their PhotoShows. If their partner is absent, they will either pair with another student in the same situation, or join another group to form a group of three. Each student will have an equal responsibility to find images that connect themes from Othello to their lives, and to use the technology to create a visual representation of themes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Section II – Groups and Roles for Product **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Differentiated Instruction **__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Verbal: Students will discuss the connections in character and theme between O and Othello. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Logical: Students will analyze how the themes from Othello were portrayed in the film adaptation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Visual: Students will find Creative Commons images that capture the themes from Othello to incorporate into their PhotoShow. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Intrapersonal: Students will select a theme from Othello and reflect on how it relates to their own life. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Interpersonal: Students will discuss how themes from Othello relate to their lives. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Naturalist: Students will find similarities in the environments described in the play and shown in the the film clip.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">MI Strategies **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Modifications/Accommodations **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//From IEP’s ( Individual Education Plan), 504’s, ELLIDEP (English Language Learning Instructional Delivery Education Plan) I will review student’s IEP, 504 or ELLIDEP and make appropriate modifications and accommodations.//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will be emailed the link to the class information from the class website. The class agenda, Cluster/Web graphic organizer, and the instructions and checklist for the PhotoShow product will be posted there. I will ask the absent student to complete the assignment independently, since their Spring Partner will have been paired with someone else, and turn it in as close to the due date as possible. Alternatively, they will pair with another student in the same situation, or join another group to form a group of three. Students who feel they can skype into the class will do so, and skype with their Spring Partner in order to complete the activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Plan for accommodating absent students: **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Extensions **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will create a digital slide show to demonstrate an ability to connect themes from a text with their own lives. The collaborative component, ease with which images are synthesized, ability to insert text, and ability to use music pushes PhotoShow to a Type II technology.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Type II technology: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students who wish to explore the content further will write a short, one to two paragraph component explaining the relationship between the images they chose and how it connects to their lives and Othello.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Gifted Students: **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Materials, Resources and Technology **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">laptop
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">internet access
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">LCD projector
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">video trailer of O
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Cluster/Web graphic organizer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Idea Wheel graphic organizer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Seasonal Partners sheets (already completed)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">list of themes generated on first day of lesson
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">copies of Othello

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Source for Lesson Plan and Research **__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">http://www.photoshow.com/home/start
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">PhotoShow Website **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hogTgzjuU&lr=1&uid=KLMMhrc_ksOZrihKDOmntA
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">PhotoShow Tutorial **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1NIOjkJi0
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Trailer for O **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Quick Write How To **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/othello/themes.html <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">http://www.litcharts.com/lit/othello/themes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Themes in Othello **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_%28literature%29
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Definitions: **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Cluster/Web Graphic Organizer **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">ISP Graphic Organizer **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Idea Wheel Graphic Organizer **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Online Text: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindle Download ($5.99) http://www.amazon.com/Othello-Folger-Shakespeare-Library-William/dp/0743477553 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Alternative Online Text: http://books.google.com/books?id=qFLLDlKEfhkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Audio Book: http://librivox.org/othello-by-william-shakespeare/ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Hard Copy: Folger edition of Othello
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Othello text **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">PART II: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Teaching and Learning Sequence** //(Describe the teaching and learning process using all of the information from part I of the lesson plan)//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The classroom will be arranged in a U format with the top of the U facing where the projector will display on the wall so that all students can see.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Day 1 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Hook: Teacher will show the film trailer O (10 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will have a discussion on themes in Othello and O and their similarities and differences, making sure to go over key vocabulary. Students will generate a list of themes to track. (40 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will Quick Write about their thoughts and the themes discussed. (10 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will compare themes from Othello to their own lives with the Web/Cluster graphic organizer and a Team-Pair-Solo activity, using their Winter Partner groups to form the initial teams. (15 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Homework: Read Act I, Scene i


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Day 2 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students and teacher will discuss Act II, scene i of Othello, using the ISP organizers from the previous lesson. (30 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Idea Wheel (10 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Teacher will give a demonstration of PhotoShow and give directions and checklist for the product assignment. (10 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will work on their PhotoShows in their Spring Partner groups (10 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Homework: Read Act II, scene ii

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The classroom will be arranged in clusters so the students can work in groups.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Day 3 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Teacher will answer questions about Act II, scene ii homework reading (20 minutes)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will work on their PhotoShows for the remainder of class. (60 minutes)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will understand that multiple themes develop over the course of the text. Key Ideas and Details. Connecting the themes from Shakespeare's Othello to their own lives will allow students to understand that themes are enduring. By using a graphic organizer, students will identify multiple themes that connect to their lives, and track their development over the course of the text. The teacher will show the film trailer for the movie O directed by Tim Blake Nelson. This film takes the plot of Othello and sets it in a modern day, elite private school in the southern United States. Students will be able to see the connections between these fictional high school characters and make connections between themes to their own lives. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Where, Why, What, Hook Tailors**: Visual

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will know that the themes that appear in Shakespeare's Othello are enduring and can be applied to our lives today, as well as the vocabulary "theme", "heroism vs. love", "jealousy", "appearance vs. reality", and "women and sexuality." See content notes. After viewing the film trailer, students will participate in a class discussion of themes that appear in Othello, and make connections between Shakespeare's original work and Nelson's cinematic adaptation. Key vocabulary will be discussed so that all students understand the content being explored. The teacher will keep a running list of all the themes that the students will be exploring, adding important ones to the list if they are missing. The teacher will put this list on the class website for the students to look at and use in the future. The teacher will allow students to process the information from the discussion with a Quick Write activity, where responses will be posted to the class website. These responses will allow the teacher to check for understanding. Next, students will be directed to form teams of four using their Winter Partners. Students will then complete a Web/Cluster graphic organizer in which they connect themes from Othello to their own lives. After five minutes, the teams will split into pairs where they will continue to work on the graphic organizer, and after the next five minutes have gone by, students will have the chance to personally reflect and finish the organizer. Their homework will be to read Act II, scene i. The next day, the teacher and students will discuss the previous night's reading using the ISP organizer from the previous lesson. Students will use an Idea Wheel graphic organizer to reflect on themes in Othello and track the development of themes as they appeared in the night’s reading. Afterwards, the teacher will give a demonstration of PhotoShow and hand out the checklist. For the last 10 minutes of class, student will pair with their Spring Partners to start thinking about the themes they wish to connect to in their PhotoShow. The homework will be to read the next scene in Othello. The next day, the teacher will answer any questions about the assigned reading. The students will have the class period to work on and complete their PhotoShows. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Equip, Explore, Rethink, Revise, Tailors:** Visual, Verbal, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will be able to understand that multiple themes develop over the course of the text, and make connections between those themes and their own lives through PhotoShow. Students will analyze the development of themes and evaluate how they connect to their own lives. The final product will utilize student ability to create and synthesize information into a visual representative of their thinking process. Students will be grouped in their Spring Partners (previously determined in a partner-finding activity). Each member of the group will have the responsibility of finding images to use in the PhotoShow, using the technology, and contributing one or more connections between Othello and their own lives. Students who understand the themes that occur in Othello and who are able to make the connection between those themes and their own lives will have a rich visual representation of their thinking process. Students will be assessed via checklist, and be given the opportunity to revise their work should they choose to do so after the teacher has assessed their PhotoShows by writing a short explanation of how the images they choose connect to their lives and to the themes in Othello. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Explore, Experience, Revise, Refine, Tailors:** Interpersonal, Visual, Interpersonal

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The teacher will post the checklist and the written directions for the project on the class website. Students will individually self-assess their work with a personal reflection and the checklist provided by the teacher. The student will email a copy of their self assessment and checklist to the teacher. Students will post the link to their completed PhotoShows to the class website, and the teacher will assess them with the checklist. The self assessment will include the following criteria, and will ask students to give themselves a 1-5 (one being the lowest score): <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The checklist will include the following criteria for the teams: * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">At least two connections between students and Othello are used in the PhotoShow <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Once the student self-assessment component is received, the teacher will grade the final product, taking into consideration the student self-assessment. The purpose of the self-assessment is to ensure that each member of the group contributed in a productive and meaningful manner to the creation of the product. Students will continue to build upon their knowledge of the themes in Othello as we read the book. The homework assignment will be to pay special note to how the themes they chose to explore in their PhotoShows develops in the night's reading. The next lesson directly links to the exploration of themes done in this lesson, as they are explored further in the next lesson. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Evaluate, Tailors:** Intrapersonal, Visual
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">How do you feel you contributed to finding the connections between Othello and your life?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">How satisfied are you with the amount of images you found?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">How well did you and your partner work together?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">If you had to grade yourself, what would you get in terms of a 1-5?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">At least six images were used in the PhotoShow
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Correct spelling and grammar were used in the captions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The finished product was posted to the class website on time

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Content Notes **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will know that the themes that appear in Shakespeare's Othello are enduring and can be applied to our lives today, as well as the vocabulary "theme", "heroism vs. love", "jealousy", "appearance vs. reality", and "women and sexuality".

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The teacher will have the film trailer from YouTube projected onto the wall when the students enter the room. The teacher will explain that the trailer they are about to see if a film adaptation of Othello. The teacher will instruct students to look for connections between Othello and this film. The teacher will play the video, which will lead into the discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Film Trailer O **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">After the students have watched the video, the teacher will ask the students to share some of the connections they made between O and Othello. After students have shared their thoughts, the teacher will go over the following terms and vocabulary, integrating it into the discussion and making sure that all students are familiar with the terms. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Theme __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">- a central topic, subject, or concept that the author is trying to point out <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">NOT message or moral
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Discussion on Themes and Connections **

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Heroism vs. love __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Before and above all else, Othello is a soldier. From the earliest moments in the play, his career affects his married life. Asking “fit disposition” for his wife after being ordered to Cyprus (I.iii.234), Othello notes that “the tyrant custom. . . / Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war / My thrice-driven bed of down” (I.iii.227–229). While Desdemona is used to better “accommodation,” she nevertheless accompanies her husband to Cyprus (I.iii.236). Moreover, she is unperturbed by the tempest or Turks that threatened their crossing, and genuinely curious rather than irate when she is roused from bed by the drunken brawl in Act II, scene iii. She is, indeed, Othello’s “fair warrior,” and he is happiest when he has her by his side in the midst of military conflict or business (II.i.179). The military also provides Othello with a means to gain acceptance in Venetian society. While the Venetians in the play are generally fearful of the prospect of Othello’s social entrance into white society through his marriage to Desdemona, all Venetians respect and honor him as a soldier. Mercenary Moors were, in fact, commonplace at the time. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Othello predicates his success in love on his success as a soldier, wooing Desdemona with tales of his military travels and battles. Once the Turks are drowned—by natural rather than military might—Othello is left without anything to do. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> One might well say that Othello is saying farewell to the wrong things—he is entirely preoccupied with his identity as a soldier. But his way of thinking is somewhat justified by its seductiveness to the audience as well. Critics and audiences alike find comfort and nobility in Othello’s final speech and the anecdote of the “malignant and. . . turbaned Turk” (V.ii.362), even though in that speech, as in his speech in Act III, scene iii, Othello depends on his identity as a soldier to glorify himself in the public’s memory, and to try to make his audience forget his and Desdemona’s disastrous marital experiment.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Jealousy __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Iago refers to jealousy as the “green-eyed monster.” As this metaphor suggests, jealousy is closely associated with the theme of appearance and reality. For instance, at one point Othello demands that Iago provide “ocular proof” of Desdemona’s infidelity—he demands to see reality. But Iago instead provides the circumstantial evidence of the handkerchief, which Othello, consumed by his jealousy, accepts as a substitute for “ocular proof.” Othello’s jealousy impedes his ability to distinguish between reality and appearance. While the prejudiced characters in the play denigrate Othello as an animal or a beast based on his race, Othello’s obvious honor and intelligence makes these attacks obviously ridiculous. Yet when Othello is overcome by jealousy, he does become beast-like, falling into epileptic fits that rob him of the ability to speak intelligibly. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Othello is also not the only character in Othello to feel jealousy. Both Iago and Roderigo act to destroy Othello out of jealousy, with disastrous consequences.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Women and Sexuality __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Two contrasting images of womanhood dominate Othello: the virtuous and loyal woman, or Madonna, embodied by Desdemona; and the whore, embodied, to a certain extent by Bianca. Yet over the course of the play, it becomes clear that these two different ways of describing women don’t actually apply to real women. Instead, they are male fantasies imposed on women—ideals that men want woman to fulfill, and roles that women therefore purposefully play for men. For instance, Desdemona often describes her devotion to Othello in front of other people, underscoring that, even though she does love him very deeply, she is to a certain extent playing the role of the virtuous wife. Iago then stokes Othello’s jealousy in part by forcing Othello to realize that there is no way for a man to tell the difference between a truly virtuous wife and one who is just playing the role of virtuous wife while actually acting as a whore and being unfaithful. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> Meanwhile, Iago’s wife, Emilia, complicates the simple contract between the Madonna and the whore. Initially, she wants to please her husband—and does so by stealing Desdemona’s handkerchief, knowing that he has long hankered after it. Yet she is not wholly loyal, and even tells Desdemona in 4.3 that she believes many women, including she herself, would cheat on their husbands under certain circumstances. And, finally, she proves her own, independent virtue by defending Desdemona’s virtue and revealing her husband’s crimes in the process. So while womanhood in Othello is, therefore, often defined by men in terms of pure virtue or voracious and deceptive sexuality, the play ultimately shows that real women are far more complex.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Appearance vs. Reality __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> The tragic plot of Othello hinges on the ability of the villain, Iago, to mislead other characters, particularly Roderigo and Othello, by encouraging them to misinterpret what they see. Othello is susceptible to Iago’s ploys because he himself is so honest and straightforward. As Iago puts it: “the Moor is of a free and open nature/ That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; and will as tenderly be led by th’ nose/ As asses are” (2.1.391-4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> In Othello, Shakespeare plays with the idea of unreliable reality in a number of ways. The language of the play, which time and again refers to dreams, trances, and vision, constantly highlights the way in which what seems to be real may actually be fake. In addition, Shakespeare extends the theme of appearance vs. reality to include the art of playwriting and acting. As he develops his plot against Othello, Iago creates scenes within scenes. He sets up encounters between two characters and putting a third in the position of a spectator. For instance, he has Othello watch Cassio and Desdemona speak, and he has Othello watch him speak with Cassio about Bianca. In each case, Iago manipulates Othello so that Othello sees the appearance that Iago wants him to see, rather than the reality of what is actually happening. In this way, Iago becomes a kind of “director”—he even directly addresses the audience through his many soliloquies—and Shakespeare draws attention to the way that a playwright and actors create an appearance onstage that tricks the audience into seeing something other than reality.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">After the discussion, the teacher will instruct the students to write down their thoughts about the themes and connections discussed. Importance is not on grammar, spelling, or cohesion, but student thought process. Students will post their five minute Quick Writes onto the class website for the teacher to view as the responses are answered.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Quick Write **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will be directed to form teams of four using their Winter Partners. The teacher will instruct students to first get together with their Winter Partner, then instruct the class to form quartets by joining with another pair. Students will then complete a Web/Cluster graphic organizer in which they connect themes from Othello to their own lives. The web format of the organizer allows for individuality and flexibility in connecting thoughts and ideas. After five minutes, the teams will split into the original pairs where they will continue to work on the graphic organizer, and after the next five minutes have gone by students will have the chance to personally reflect and finish the organizer. During the Team-Pair-Solo activity, the teacher will walk around the room and observe the students, making sure they understand the directions and are on the right track. The teacher will also answer student questions and converse with them about their ideas, providing verbal feedback.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Web/Cluster Graphic Organizer and Team-Pair-Solo Activity **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Students will continue to reflect on themes in Othello by using the Idea Wheel to individually make connections between themes in the text and their own lives. Students will pick one theme to focus on, and write that in the middle of the organizer. They will put connections in the surrounding spaces that connect to other themes in the text and/or their own lives. Students may choose a list from the list of themes generated on the first day of the lesson.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Idea Wheel Graphic Organizer **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The teacher will show student how to use the PhotoShow site by projecting their screen onto the wall for all students to see. The teacher will go through the basic functions of PhotoShow, and let the students know that the images they are finding a licensed as Creative Commons, which means that they are copyright free images. The teacher will then direct students to the class website where the directions, self assessment, and product checklist have been posted for them to download. After verbally walking through the directions and product checklist, the teacher will instruct students to get together with their Spring Partners and begin working on the activity. The teacher will circulate the room and answer any individual questions and help keep students on task.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">PhotoShow Tutorial and Assignment **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Handouts **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Web/Clusters Graphic Organizer **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Idea Wheel Graphic Organizer **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">(From previous lesson) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">ISP Graphic Organizer **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Maine Standards for Initial Teacher Certification and Rationale **__

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standard 3 – Demonstrates a knowledge of the diverse ways in which students learn and develop by providing learning opportunities that support their intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and cultural development. **//

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Learning Styles **//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Clipboard:**// Students will use a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts. Directions for activities will be clearly dictated by the teacher. Checklists for the PhotoShow will be gone over with the students, and will be used by students as well as the teacher.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Microscope:**// Students will analyze the text and video to make connections between them. Students will analyze how themes are connected to their lives, and discuss their connections with partners.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Puppy:**// Students will be working within the Team-Pair-Share cooperative learning structure, using their Winter Partners to complete their graphic organizer. Students will be paired with their Spring Partners to complete their product. Teacher will walk around and check in with students consistently to provide an atmosphere of encouragement and receptiveness to questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Beach Ball:**// Students will use a variety of intelligences (verbal, visual, logical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal). Students will have creative freedom when making their PhotoShows as long as objectives stated on the checklist are met.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Rationale:**// The diverse intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and cultural learning styles of students are met within the lesson using the Clipboard, Microscope, Puppy, and Beach Ball categories of student learning. Using activities that target the multiple intelligences allows for students with diverse learning styles to connect with the content and their higher order thinking skills.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standard 4 - Plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, curriculum goals, and learning and development theory. **//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Content Knowledge:**// see content notes

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">MLR or CCSS: **// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Common Core State Standards <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Content Area: Literature <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Grade Level: 11-12 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Domain: Literature <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standard: Key Ideas and Details <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Cluster: 1,2,3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Text: Othello by William Shakespeare

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Facet:**// Self-Knowledge

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Rationale:**// Students will focus on Key Ideas and Details and the domain of literature through the study Othello. Students will make connections between the themes of the play and their own lives. Students will be asked to self-reflect at multiple times in the lesson, including after the class discussion, during their cooperative learning structure, and after the product has been completed.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standard 5 - Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technology to meet students’ needs. **//

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">MI Strategies: **// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Verbal: Students will discuss the connections in character and theme between O and Othello. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Logical: Students will analyze how the themes from Othello were portrayed in the film adaptation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Visual: Students will find Creative Commons images that capture the themes from Othello to incorporate into their PhotoShow. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Intrapersonal: Students will select a theme from Othello and reflect on how it relates to their own life. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Interpersonal: Students will discuss how themes from Othello relate to their lives. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Naturalist: Students will find similarities in the environments described in the play and shown in the the film clip.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Type II Technology:**// PhotoShow

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Rationale:**// Students will create a digital slide show to demonstrate an ability to connect themes from a text with their own lives. The collaborative component and ease with which images are synthesized pushes PhotoShow to become a Type II technology. When students focus on design elements such as layout and image the Type II nature of the program is also emphasized.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standard 8 - Understands and uses a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and support the development of the learner. **//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Formative:**// During instruction, students will use a Quick Write to process information and dig deeper into content, which the teacher will assess as responses are posted to the class website. Teacher will also use individual check-ins with students while they are working in groups and on their products.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Summative:**// Students will create a visual that demonstrates and ability to connect to themes within a text and an understanding of what the key themes in Othello are with a partner. Using their Web/Cluster organizer and copy of Othello, students will create a PhotoShow to show their thinking processes.

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