The Criminal Minds Unit

Overarching Questions: 1. What is it that creates (motivates?) a criminal mind/causes someone to result in violent activity? (nature v. nurture) 2. Is it right to sympathize with a criminal? Final Assessment: Students will write a well-developed long composition that answers the above questions by synthesizing various selections of literature completed throughout the unit. Short Story Lessons: Story Lamb to the Slaughter Specific Skills/Terms Annotation Characterizat ion Authors Purpose OR Writing Lesson (1) Annotation Review how Practice Rubric Title of story (2) Characterization Types/factors Partner practice: charac. in story (3) OR Review Info/organization Rhetorical triangle Review Practice samples (class sections) (4) Irony Types/definitions Examples Annotate Title (5) Black Cat Discussion Irony Poe background (cont. below) Listen/annotate *commonalities (6) OR org/details review Poe Comparison Activity (small grps) 1. OR re: characterization and authors purpose Assignment 1. Read and annotate the story using rubric guidelines.

The Black Cat

Irony (plus above)

1. Complete Reading sheet

1. Poe Comparative OR

Tell-Tale Heart

(see above)

The Blame Game (article)

Notes/Semin ar prep

Poe Notes (style) (7) Freewrite: Violence and Video Games Discuss Blame Game title annotate (8) Blame Game Seminar Review Rules/Regs and credit (9) Freewrite: Means to be good? Discuss Read/Annotate: Good character? Motivations? (10) Point of View Types/definitions Practice Read Story annotate. (11) Man from the SouthHitchcock clip Jury of her Peers Annotate title Review POV Readimportant details! (12) Discuss Jury of her Peers Small groups (+) authors purpose Class recap

1. Notes + OR (prep for seminar)

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Character Motivation

1. Character Motivation reading sheet.

A Man from the South

POV

A Jury of Her Peers

POV Authors purpose

1. 2 DJs on storymake them insightful and address the various items weve discussed with the stories so far. 1. POV ?sjournal entry