Name: Joanna Honig
Date: 11/08
Grade Level: 12
Month
Content
September- Senior Thesis Paper
November
 Senior Thesis Paper novel(s)
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Excerpts from Roald
Dahl’s Umbrella Man
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Being There by Jerzy
Kosinski and film by Hal
Ashby
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Election 2008 debates, New
York Times articles, and
satirical sketches, such as
Saturday Night Live
Thank You for Smoking
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Excerpts from Doublespeak
by William Lutz
Class: Humanities Level One and Honors
Skills
 Careful reading of texts(written
and visual).
 Select primary sources.
 Identify useful
quotes/themes/ideas (STP).
 Formulating thesis statement.
 Organize quotes.
 Outlining skills.
 Understanding literary terms
(setting, point of view, mood, tone,
syntax, diction, writing style…)
 Understanding how syntax and
diction contribute to a
narrator’s tone and a story’s
mood(for example)
 Identifying themes,
articulating all of the above
literary terms
 Beginning to recognize
differences between literary
texts and films
 Understanding the concept of
satire
 Recognition of our biases as
we judge candidates and our
tendency not to read beyond
the surface reality
 Understanding of spin and
satirical elements of film
 Understanding and recognition
of four types of doublespeak:
inflated language, euphemism,
gobbledygook, and jargon
Assessments
 Note cards on novel(s)
 STP Notecards
 STP General Outline
 STP Thesis Statement Draft
 STP Secondary Source submission
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Class discussions, informal writing,
reading quizzes, tests
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Socratic discussions
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Socratic discussions, final creative
project (creation of a satirical skit,
story…)
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Quizzes, informal papers, Socratic
discussions
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Quizzes, creation of own
doublespeak and spin
NovemberJanuary
FebruaryApril
April-May
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STP drafts, final papers and Oral
Defense
 Search for Meaning Unit
Man’s Search for Meaning by
Victor Frankl
Walden by Henry David
Thoreau
Karma by Rishi Reddi
The Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch
Albom
The Stranger by Albert Camus
ART UNIT
 Paintings from pre-Renaissancemodern art, specifically focused on
Renaissance, Impressionism, and
Expressionism
WAYS OF SEEING BY BERGER
(CONTEMPORARY ADS…)
 Group presentations on other
artistic periods
Pollock directed by Ed Harris
Film Unit
 Literature into Film
(Daphne du Maurier’s Birds
and Hitchcock’s The Birds)
 Citizen Kane, The Graduate,
 Psycho, Rear Window
…
Final Project
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STP Specific Outline
STP Works Cited Page
STP Rough Draft
STP Final Draft
STP Oral Presentation
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Response journals, class discussions,
quizzes, tests, formal papers, and
creative project
Understanding of key concepts
related to artistic technique
Space, color, shading, depth,
theme, symbols, etc.
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Formal Essay(s)
Quizzes
Informal written assignments
Class discussions
Group presentations
Unit Test
 Film techniques
(The Shot, Editing, Light,
Sound, Symbolism)
 Auteur Theory
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Formal Essay(s)
Reading Quizzes
Informal written assignments
Final Project
Integrate quotes.
Outlining skills.
Creating rough draft.
Editing skills.
Creating final draft.
Oral Defense skills.
Analytical Essay skills.
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Understanding of the
philosophies expressed in each
of the texts
Reflection of the students’
philosophy on life
Analytical reading of specific
passages
Comparison/Contrast of
philosophies