Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Unit Bundle
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.11-12.2
CCSSRL.11-12.5
CCSSRL.11-12.10
CCSSW.11-12.1
CCSSW.11-12.1c
Formats Included
- Zip
Pages
32 pages
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This is a high quality resource. I have used it successfully with my 12th grade English classes. Love it.
Fantastic unit that helped guide me through my first time teaching Gawain! Students were engaged and demonstrated deep understanding of the story.
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Bonus
Pacing Guide & Virtue Writing Assignment
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Description
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an engaging and rigorous experience for students—and an easy one for you—with the BritLitWit bundle! These resources transform a difficult text into a memorable unit. All materials are appropriate for any translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as abridged and unabridged versions.
Here's what's included:
- Bonus: Pacing guide with a sample schedule and additional suggestions for activities
- Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Knight? Intro Activity: In this just-for-fun quiz, students find out if they would qualify as a knight in medieval times by circling the statements they agree with, which are based on codes for chivalry. Includes a humorous scoring guide! Then, students explain why three items are relevant to their lives and/or society and explain why three items they didn't circle are outdated or unfitting. Students enjoy discussing these medieval standards and speculating about why things have and haven't changed!
- Introductory Slides: Introduce Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with this engaging slide presentation! This resource includes 10 well-researched slides that include a brief overview of the text, author background, an overview of chivalry in medieval times, characteristics of chivalric romance, components of a quest (and other examples in literature and film), influence of folklore on the text, notable poetic devices, and themes and the motifs that support them.
- Reading Questions: Includes 24 questions about significant plot events, along with a table for students to track what happens when the Green Knight takes his three swings at Gawain and what it signifies. Answer key included.
- Sir Gawain's Report Card: This review assignment requires students to give Gawain a letter grade for each "class" (based on the elements of chivalric romances) and describe the evidence they do or do not see in the text in the comments section. It includes a page that lists the features of chivalric romances and the Ten Commandments of Chivalry so students are clear about the criteria. Answer key included.
- Analyzing Quest Stories: Students analyze how the text meets the definition of a quest story. Characteristics for a quest are provided, and students write a paragraph to describe how the text meets those criteria, with a special focus on the stated reason for the quest vs. the real reason for the quest. They also write a paragraph to describe how another novel, film, or episode of a TV show also meets the criteria of a quest, and explain what psychological purposes they believe quest stories serve. A teacher's guide is included.
- Quiz: Includes 20 multiple-choice questions total (18 about the major plot points and 2 about the poetic devices of alliteration and bob and wheel verse). Answer key included.
- Sir Gawain's College Application Essay: This writing assignment helps students review the text and gives them an opportunity to practice the skills they'll need for college application essays! Using evidence from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight combined with their own imaginative extensions, students write an essay from Sir Gawain's perspective that addresses how his strengths and weaknesses surfaced within a challenge he faced. The rubric includes detailed instructions and the pre-writing sheet helps students organize details from the text first.
- Bonus: What virtues matter most to you?: Chivalric virtues guided Gawain, so to wrap up the unit, students identify three virtues/positive qualities that they want to embody. For each virtue, they add a representative icon and explain in a paragraph why the virtue matters to them, how they can create conditions that will help them embody it, and obstacles they predict. This assignment is a great parallel to the "Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Knight?" quiz and helps students create a deeper connection to the big ideas of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Total Pages
32 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
1 Week
Last updated Jun 2nd, 2021
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Standards
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CCSSRL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
CCSSRL.11-12.10
By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSSW.11-12.1
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSSW.11-12.1c
Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
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