{"id":742,"date":"2021-12-06T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-template\/?page_id=742"},"modified":"2022-05-09T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T16:41:05","slug":"portrait-iii-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-iii-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"CUP 1- Romeo and Juliet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For my very first takeover, which started on November 1st, 2021, we began Shakespeare\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Romeo and Juliet. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My first obstacle was finding my \u201cwhy\u201d for this play. Why read an archaic play riddled with sexism, where the characters make almost exclusively bad decisions, and the language is torturously difficult for 14 year olds? One of my goals was to find a way to situate all of the literature we read in students\u2019 real lives, so I formed the unit around their relationships with their parents and mentors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Essential Questions<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why are role models important?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are the characteristics of a good mentor?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do our relationships with parents and mentors affect our decision-making?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Text Set<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> by William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my very first takeover, which started on November 1st, 2021, we began Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo and Juliet. My first obstacle was finding my \u201cwhy\u201d for this play. Why read an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-iii-overview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CUP 1- Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/742\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}