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This document outlines a course on dealing with death, pain, and suffering through literature. The course contains 4 weeks of content exploring these themes through poems like "Musee de Beaux Arts" and "After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes", the play "Riders to the Sea", and the short story "A Rose for Emily". Each week focuses on different learning objectives like analyzing literary devices related to themes of loss and suffering, discussing how characters cope with tragedy, and comparing how different cultures deal with grief. A variety of teaching methods like group discussions, presentations, and creative writing assignments are used for assessment.

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This document outlines a course on dealing with death, pain, and suffering through literature. The course contains 4 weeks of content exploring these themes through poems like "Musee de Beaux Arts" and "After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes", the play "Riders to the Sea", and the short story "A Rose for Emily". Each week focuses on different learning objectives like analyzing literary devices related to themes of loss and suffering, discussing how characters cope with tragedy, and comparing how different cultures deal with grief. A variety of teaching methods like group discussions, presentations, and creative writing assignments are used for assessment.

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Preliminar

y Period
Enduring Understanding

UNIT 5: THE POETICS OF LOSS:


COMING TO TERMS WITH DEATH, PAIN, AND SUFFERING
Essential Questions

Course Code
(LIT 101 A)

Death, pain, and suffering are inevitable. Likewise, they are How does one perceive death, pain and suffering?
fundamental in understanding the essence of life and change. How does one deal with death, pain and suffering?
How does coping with death, pain, and suffering help
an individual in facing the realities of life?
Wee
k

Content
Standards
Demonstrate
understanding
of how people
perceive other
peoples
suffering

Declarative
Knowledge

Functional
knowledge

Mans Pain and


Suffering Musee
de Beaux Arts
by
W. H. Auden

Recognize mans
indifference or
apathy to other
peoples woes and
suffering is the real
tragedy in human
existence
Highlight the
images of suffering
and tragedy
juxtaposed with
the banal activities
of everyday life

Intended
Learning
Outcomes
(ILOs)
Show the poems
juxtaposition
between
suffering/tragedy
and banality of
day to day
activities through
a T-chart
Discuss the
impact of some of
the most tragic
disasters which
occurred in the
country through a
verbal rundown of
the best adjective
description

Teaching/Learni
ng Activities
(TLAs)

Assessment
Tasks (ATs)

Matching visual
and textual
interpretation
through a power
point presentation

Artistic
response to
any picture of
disaster/
suffering e.g.
poem or song

Semantic webbing

Audio-visual
presentation

e.g. 911
Answers:
devastating
horrible

Demonstrate
understanding
of death, pain,
and suffering
and the way
they are
perceived,
experienced,
and understood

Overcoming pain
and suffering in
After GreatPain,
A Formal Feeling
Comes
by Emily
Dickinson

Expressing how
one deals with
death, pain, and
suffering

Determine the
different ways on
how people deal
with death, pain,
and suffering by
conducting an
interview or
survey and
having a tabular
presentation of
the results

Group discussion

Creative
journal
writing on
how one was
able to get
over with
death, pain,
and suffering

Demonstrate
understanding
of the
associations of
death, pain, and
suffering with
sea

Vast vision of life


and death in
Riders
to the Sea by
John Millington
Synge

Recognizing the
the different
literary devices
and symbols used
in the selections in
association with
death

Identify the
different
elements
associated with
death, pain, and
suffering by
creating a
semantic web
analyzing the
representation of
the sea to life,
death and faith

Semantic web
showing the
representation of
the sea to life,
death, and faith

Turning the
play to a
radio drama

Demonstrate
understanding
of a characters
loss and
dementia as a
consequence of
death

Depression,
Gloom and
Tragedy in A
Rose
for Emily by
William Faulkner

Analyzing how the


elements of story
as well as other
literary devices
link with death,
pain, and suffering

Cite lessons on
how to cope with
change by
formulating
quotations

Quotation writing
reflecting the
lesson or the
theme of the story

Recognizing the
qualities of the
protagonist that
become the reason
for her fall

Analyze the
accolades given
to Emily Grierson
and justify how
these tributary
titles suit her
character. Write a
eulogy for her.

Enumerate
epithets for Emily

Recreate the
picture of
Emily through
the authors
description of
her evolution
from the
young ,
middle aged
and old Emily

Demonstrate
understanding
of the stages of
emotion as one
recuperates and
convalesces

Emotional
healing in
Management
of Grief by
Bharati
Mukherjee

Comparing and
contrasting how
different cultures
deal with tragedy
and frustration

Describe how to
cope with
frustration by
researching from
different self-help
books/ other online sources
Retrace the
historical incident
that inspired the
story by
conducting an
archival research.
on the historical
incident that
inspired the story.

Group research on
ways to redeem
oneself from grief
and suffering

Group
presentation
and sharing

Well-scripted
slideshow
presentation

Reflection
paper

TV reporting of the
incident like CNN
coverage

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