Modernism Unit (8 week): Rationale, Objective, & “The How About”: Using the material from the Literacy and Modernism class will serve as a scaffolding method to prepare 11th grade high school students for modern poetry and literature. Students will first learn about the modern movement through modern art. They will learn to distinguish the differences between the goals of modern and Victorian artists.  The students will then examine The New Age Magazine as a whole and identify examples of modernism as learned from the art. Once the students are comfortable identifying modernistic characteristics in the layout, published work, and advertisements of the magazine, students will then transition into other genres such as poetry and literature. Ample time will be devoted to learning the modern movement as it will serve as a step stone to other movements. Day-by-day, week-by-week, lessons plans will be developed that emphasize directions, students work, and assessment for comprehension of the unit’s ultimate goal, understanding characteristics of modernism, will be developed to measure student learning and progress.   Modernism Materials: Art-Georgia O’Keeffe (modern)- Radiator Building, Night, New York,1927 Pablo Picasso (modern/cubism)- Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937             Claude Monet,- The Water-Lily Pond, 1899               Vincent van Gogh- Starry Night, 1889    Poetry- William Carlos Williams- “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 1923 Robert Frost- “The Road Not Taken,” 1920 Literature (prose)- William Faulkner As I Lay Dying, 1930 Magazine- The New Age Magazine  

 

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