RATIONAL
This grade 12 university prep course will emphasizes the consolidation of the literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for success in academic and daily life. Students will analyze a current popular novel Silver Linings Playbook. Throughout this unit students will be assessed through oral, written and media texts in a variety of forms.
This unit will take place at the end of the semester, in order for all students to highlight their many skills they have learned throughout this course. Students have previously relayed speeches in front of their classmates, as well as created and interacted in a debate developing their listening and understanding content skills. Students will be able to coherently and confidently be able to demonstrate effective reading strategies and apply it to popular culture today.
Silver Lining Playbook is a book about the main character Pat Solatano joinery through a life he did not plan. Pat struggles with bipolar disorder and struggles to keep control of his emotions at certain parts of the novel. The main character feels like he can manage on the outside solely by healthy living and looking for the "silver linings" in his life. Throughout the story Pat losses everything but over comes challenging circumstances with his friend Tiffany to discover the Silver lining within their own lives. In looking at this novel, we intend students to gain insight to the daily struggles of living with a mental disorder, as well as to allow students to see the silver linings within their own lives/ communities.
This text will prepare students to think analytically about the reading materials placed in front of them and to critic and source proper material as references. As well students will develop confidence and control in their reading and writing skills. Choosing this text allows for all students to be engaged and to see that literacy not only applies within the English classroom but is current within present day society.
It is our intention that by the end of the unit, students will:
a) Have accurate information on mental illness
b) Understand the adaptation process from novels to films
c) Reflect and respond to various questions regarding their own critical thinking skills
d) Be able to effectively find information within the novel to retell the story in their own way.
These goals will be achieved by means of the following expectations and lesson plans.
This unit will take place at the end of the semester, in order for all students to highlight their many skills they have learned throughout this course. Students have previously relayed speeches in front of their classmates, as well as created and interacted in a debate developing their listening and understanding content skills. Students will be able to coherently and confidently be able to demonstrate effective reading strategies and apply it to popular culture today.
Silver Lining Playbook is a book about the main character Pat Solatano joinery through a life he did not plan. Pat struggles with bipolar disorder and struggles to keep control of his emotions at certain parts of the novel. The main character feels like he can manage on the outside solely by healthy living and looking for the "silver linings" in his life. Throughout the story Pat losses everything but over comes challenging circumstances with his friend Tiffany to discover the Silver lining within their own lives. In looking at this novel, we intend students to gain insight to the daily struggles of living with a mental disorder, as well as to allow students to see the silver linings within their own lives/ communities.
This text will prepare students to think analytically about the reading materials placed in front of them and to critic and source proper material as references. As well students will develop confidence and control in their reading and writing skills. Choosing this text allows for all students to be engaged and to see that literacy not only applies within the English classroom but is current within present day society.
It is our intention that by the end of the unit, students will:
a) Have accurate information on mental illness
b) Understand the adaptation process from novels to films
c) Reflect and respond to various questions regarding their own critical thinking skills
d) Be able to effectively find information within the novel to retell the story in their own way.
These goals will be achieved by means of the following expectations and lesson plans.