Objectives
In order to meet all of my district standards and utilize all six components of Bloom's Taxonomy, my unit will encompass many activities that will allow my students to activate various levels of knowledge. Students will be able to demonstrate basic knowledge of Shakespearian and Spenserian plot by answering recall questions on plot. Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension by participating in a Socratic Seminar about several movie versions of Shakespeare's plays along with selected scenes from the text and a reading passage from Spenser. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of Elizabethan language by creating a body biography incorporating quotes and illustrations from the text. Students will be able to analyze an historic text by Elizabeth I and compare and contrast it to a given section of a Shakespearean play or canto of Spenser's The Faerie Queene. To incorporate the synthesis level of Bloom's Taxonomy, students will be able to write a short character analysis on a given female character. In order to achieve the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy, evaluation, students will be able to defend their thesis within the character analysis by presenting their paper to the class.
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