Mike+Venner

Hello! My name is Mike (as the tab you clicked indicated), and I would like to welcome you to my wiki page. I would like to offer my most sincerest apology at the utter lack of creativity put into it as I am not exactly technologically literate. Anyway the purpose of this page is to convey to you my unit plan. Now I have done several of these before but so far I have not "had fun" with any of them. I have stuck to the canon and taught things that I feel would be required of me to teach in the future such as //Of Mice and Men// and //Lord of the Flies//. While I think these unit plans are unique and engaging to the students none of them delve into my passions or interests (besides the obvious and superficial literary ones). So for this one I thought I would merge my minor and my major and teach a unit on Homer's //The Iliad//. This allows me to take a text that I have a genuine interest in teach it to students. This is aimed at being for an upper level secondary elective course. This would suggest (though I know that its not always true) that the students would have some interest in higher level English studies. The Unit is designed to have as much fun with the novel as possible while still focusing on learning. The Unit is presented all in one document so that it is easier for me to manage. I hope you enjoy it...



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