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WL17.LAT.L4.6

Analyze and critique Roman poetry to determine its influence on art and literature throughout history.

COS Examples

Example: Ovid’s influence on Gianlorenzo Bernini’s sculptural rendition of Daphne and Apollo, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.

WL17.LAT.L4.7

Describe the influence of themes in Roman poetry on Western art and literature.

COS Examples

Example: The theme of artistic discipline and loss in Ovid’s tale of Orpheus and Eurydice as interpreted in film and opera.

WL17.LAT.L4.8

Compare phrases used in English to their origins in Latin literature.

COS Examples

Examples: vanish into thin air hair stands on end and voice sticks in your throat“ originating in Vergil’s Aeneid.“

WL17.LAT.L4.9

Connect universal themes found in Roman poetry to artistic renditions of other time periods and cultures.

COS Examples

Example: Themes of love and hate in different versions of Catullus’ 85 Odi at amo“ and works by English poets Abraham Cowley (1667) Ezra Pound (1972) and Garry Wills (contemporary).

WL17.LAT.L4.10

Investigate connections between the study of Latin around the world and across time to the present.

COS Examples

Example: The study of Latin in European schools, and Milton’s Latin works.

WL17.ASL.NLP.1

Exchange simple information in American Sign Language.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • culturally appropriate ways to greet and take leave in a Deaf culture.
  • ways to tell someone their name.
  • certain words and simple phrases in ASL.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • sign basic words using correct parameters.
  • recognize simple words and phrases that have been taught.
  • fingerspell their own name.
  • recognize when a classmate is fingerspelling their name.
  • sign HELLO and GOODBYE in ASL.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

WL17.ASL.NLP.2

Demonstrate an understanding of live and recorded American Sign Language information presented on familiar topics.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • simple key words and basic phrases.
  • strategies to identify people and basic objects in their daily environment.
  • vocabulary for following simple instructions in ASL.
  • strategies to use spatial referencing with practiced pronouns.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • recognize simple words and phrases that have been taught.
  • recognize their own name being fingerspelled.
  • recognize when a classmate is fingerspelling their name.
  • recognize when a greeting or leave-taking is happening.
  • use pointing(indexing) to refer to a person or object.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

WL17.ASL.NLP.3

Present information to an audience of viewers in American Sign Language.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • vocabulary to sign one word or a simple phrase about themself.
  • vocabulary and grammar to sign a simple story or poem in ASL.
  • how to create a video recording of themself signing a simple story or poem.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • memorize and present a simple story or poem.
  • use video equipment.
  • accurately produce signed vocabulary.
  • maintain eye contact.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

WL17.ASL.NLP.4

Investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship among the products, practices, and perspectives of the Deaf culture.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • attention getting techniques in the Deaf culture.
  • strategies to identify a simple ASL poem or rhyme.
  • strategies for observation and imitation simple patterns of behavior of Deaf people.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • wave (HEY) to get attention.
  • tap a person's shoulder to get attention.
  • identify a simple ASL poem or rhyme.
  • imitate simple patterns of behavior of Deaf people.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • an ability to communicate in ASL fosters a better understanding of the Deaf culture and his/her own language and culture.
  • custom and tradition vary within Deaf cultures.
  • Other understandings will vary according to theme being taught.
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