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Vittie 1
English 12 Mini Unit Overview
Main goals of unit:
Students need to:
- speak, listen, interpret and analyze texts.
- examine and compare ideas among texts, create personal responses,
synthesize and extend thinking by transforming existing ideas and
information.
- set goals and evaluate their own progress.
- comprehend ideas and form in visual texts, context and structure in
oral language, and have exposure to a variety of poem forms.
- Additionally students have to be prepared for the provincial
exam, with knowledge of poetic terms and devices
Prior knowledge:
As grade 12s, students should be coming to this
unit with a strong understanding of literary
devices, reading skills, and familiarity with poetic
forms.

To assess prior knowledge there will be a short
re-introduction to poetry through the analysis of
pop music, as well as a poetry autobiography,
and opportunity to share lists of poetic devices
that students need to brush up on.
Big idea: Provide students with a deeper understanding of language and how it can be used to play, express emotion, create
ambiguity, and make meaning.
Lesson# Objective Activities Materials Assessment
1) Pop Music
Assessment
for Learning

Interpreting, analyzing and
evaluating in collaboration
and individually.
Group lyric analysis
with sticky notes
CD of pop music.
Photocopied autobiography worksheets.
Projector and Power point Instructions.
Large print outs of song lyrics.
Sticky notes. Push pins.
Worksheets
Discussion
Participation
2) Intro to unit/
assignments
Interpreting, analyzing and
evaluating in collaboration
and individually.
Gallery walk, group
discussion, things
to notice.
Photocopied unit overview/assignments.
Projector and Power point Instructions.
Sticky notes. Push pins.
Discussion
Participation

3) Terms and
Devices/
Mushrooms 1
Make personal responses to
text by: interpreting, analyzing
and evaluating. Demonstrate
increasing word skills and
vocabulary knowledge.
Mushroom
analysis.
Chart Vocab needs
Terms and devices, How to analyze a
poem, and Mushrooms class set
photocopied
Chart paper and markers
Push pins.

Charts
Participation
Mrs. Vittie 2
Lesson# Objective Activities Materials Assessment
4) Terms and
Devices/
Mushrooms 2
Make personal responses to
text by: interpreting, analyzing
and evaluating. Demonstrate
increasing word skills and
vocabulary knowledge.
Go over vocabulary
on chart paper.
Individual poetry
analysis of
Mushrooms
Extra copies of Terms and devices, How
to analyze a poem, and Mushrooms
Books for silent reading.
Formative
assessment in the
form of in-class
poetry analysis.
5) Word
Power/
Context
Synthesize and extend
thinking about texts, by
contextualizing ideas and
information
Go over
vocabulary.
Translating poems
to opposite
meanings and back
again.
Copies of:
The Animals in that Country (Atwood),
We are Different(Wah).
Participation
Poem translations
6) Word
Power 2/
Structure
Synthesize and extend
thinking about texts by
contextualizing ideas and
information
Go over
vocabulary.
Re-contextualizing
text from school
agendas.
Extra copies of text from school agendas
ie rules page, and school policies etc
Power point presentation on prose to
poems samples.
Participation
Poems
7) Visual
Power
During reading and viewing,
select, adapt, and apply a
range of strategies to
construct meaning
Discussion/ power
point lecture on
concrete poetry

Power point on concrete poetry/ found
poetry
Sticky notes
Participation
Found poetry
8) Visual
Power 2/
Work Class/
Student
meetings
During reading and viewing,
select, adapt, and apply a
range of strategies to
construct meaning
Discussion/ power
point lecture on
concrete poetry

Scissors / Glue / Pencil Crayons / Tape
Magazines
Photocopied materials and printouts.
Mark book (for notes)
Participation
Student meetings
9) Oral Power Recognize and apply the
structures and features of oral
language to convey and
derive meaning
Oral practice
exercise
Video
Work time
Copies of: Eunoia (Bok) / Oral practice
handout
Projector and Video link
Scissors / Glue / Pencil Crayons / Tape
Participation

10) Oral
Power 2
Recognize and apply the
structures and features of oral
language
Sound experiments Copies of: Sonnet 29 (Shakespeare)/
handout of discussion questions and
sonnet information
Participation