COURSE PLAN IN WORLD LITERATURES

Final Period

UNIT 13: HEAD COUNTS: RAVAGES OF WAR

Course Code
(Lit 101)

Enduring Understanding

Essential Questions

The life altering experiences in war become

the avenues for understanding and learning
important lessons in life.

How are individuals affected by war?

What important lessons are conveyed by war?
How does literature present war?

Week

Content
Standards

Demonstrate
understanding of
the poets use of
graphic
descriptions in
providing imagery
in the poem
Demonstrate
understanding of
the Holocaust as a
milieu of thepoem

Essential Learning
Declarative
Functional
Knowledge
Knowledge

The faces of
fear in
A Poor
Christian Looks
at the Ghetto
by
Czeslaw Milosz

Setting the poem

in its historical
context to interpret
it correctly

Intended
Learning Outcomes (ILO)

Recognize the
destruction wrought by
war by underscoring the
lines with graphic
description. Put the
images together for
Analyzing the use of analysis
the poetic devices
and figures of
Review the impact of
speech in the poem Holocaust to the Jews
to illustrate the
through a short report
horrific outcome of
war

Suggested
Teaching/Learn
ing
Activities
(TLAs)

Assessment
Tasks (ATs)

Collage of
images of the
destruction of
war

Exhibit of
collage

Film viewing

Reaction
paper

Demonstrate
understanding of
the poets use of
technical
descriptions in
poetry

The enormous
cost of
terrorism in
The Diameter
of a Bomb
by
Yehuda
Amichai

Drawing out
meanings from
poets frequent use
of technical
descriptions in the
poem

Reflect on the
destructive nature of
war and terrorism by
highlighting the
technical descriptions of
the bombs explosion,
keeping track of the
Inferring the poems circles accompanying
message by
each description. Study
analyzing the
the meaning of circles
language used by
through group
the poet
discussion.

Creative
presentation of
the circles
(collage,
poster, AVP)

Reaction
paper

Class
Discussion

Research and
class
presentation
(with peer
evaluation)

Setting the poem

against its historical
milieu for correct
interpretation
Demonstrate
understanding of
the authors use
of the paranormal
in narrating the
story

Atrocity of war
in
Waiting for a
Friend
by
Ngo Tu Lap

Recognizing the
various levels a war
story can be
written, appreciated
, and analyzed
Making sense of the

Empathize with the

protagonist- narrator
and justify the authors
style by explaining why
the author used a dead
person as a protagonistnarrator in the story

TPS(Think,Pair,
Share) activity

Demonstrate
understanding of
the various levels
a war story can
be written,
appreciated , and
analyzed

war story as a
universal condition
that plagues every
human person
regardless of race,
religion, gender
and age

Demonstrate
understanding of
the role of
symbolism and
parallel situations
in a story

Traversing
ideological
differences in
Cranes
by
Hwang Sunwon

Demonstrate
understanding of
the use of setting,
characterization,
and dialog in a
story

Fathoming
belligerent
nationalism in
War
by
Luigi Pirandello

Recognizing the
effects of
ideological clash in
a story

Present fratricide in a
story and explainthe
different ideologies
through class discussion
and DRTA technique

Setting the story

against its historical
milieu
Analyzing the
characters
according to the
impact of war to
each of them
Setting the story
against its historical
milieu

Distinguish the writers

unique approach of
continuous dialogue to
render the story.
Through the dialogues,
create a short play.
.

Class
discussion

Dramatization

DRTA (Directed
Reading and
Thinking
Activity)

Radio drama

Reaction
paper