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Close Reading Presentation In Romeo And Juliet

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TASK 1: PLANNING COMMENTARY Respond to the prompts below (no more than 9 single-spaced pages, including prompts) by typing your responses within the brackets. Do not delete or alter the prompts. Pages exceeding the maximum will not be scored. 1. Central Focus a. Describe the central focus and purpose of the content you will teach in the learning segment. The central focus of this learning segment is to read and understand act 2, scenes 3-6 of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and to use this understanding to interpret deeper character motivations and characterization. Students will use close reading to find evidence to support their interpretations and will write short paragraphs on characterization. Close reading is the process of critically analyzing a text and focusing on significant details without referencing or referring to information outside of the text in order to develop deep and precise understanding. The process of summarizing, interpreting, and using evidence to support the interpretation will be repeated multiple times during this learning segment. The purpose of this learning segment is to prepare students for the summative essay at the end of the unit. b. Provide the title, author (or, if a film, the director), and a short description (about a paragraph in length) of salient features of the text(s) that a reviewer of your evidence, who is unfamiliar with the text(s), needs to know in order to understand your instruction. If there is more than one text,

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