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//Pride and Prejudice// Unit Plan Jessica Berg

Unifying Concept: This unit will center around the canonical text //Pride and Prejudice// by Jane Austen and will deal with the theme of love, and the varying kinds that are portrayed in the novel, as well as the obstacles that must be overcome. The supplemental texts will include //Crown Duel// and //Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.// Through the different characters and setting in //Crown Duel// students will be able to understand the ideas of love as a theme. The main character’s courtship is much like that of Elizabeth and Darcy, but it is put in a much more approachable plot for students. The manga text offers the famous story of //Pride and Prejudice// along with illustrations and an element of the supernatural that will not only engage students, but it will also entice reluctant readers (mainly boys) to the story and its romantic themes.

Bridge Texts: //Crown Duel// This is a novel that is at its core, a love story between Young countess Meliara and Danric, but it is set in a fantasy world fraught with adventure, tension, was and conflict. Meliara makes a promise to who dying father that she will protect their people from the powerful king. It is during peacetime at the royal palace, however, that Meliara encounters her hardest battle because she cannot tell her friends from her enemies. She relies on her wit and her words to guide her through the political obstacles of the palace, as well as her tension filled courtship with Danric.

// Pride and Prejudice and Zombies // In this retake on a classic, the novel follows the courtship of the Bennet family, and other English daughters as they search for love. Only in this version class structure and social politics are not the only thing that stand in the way of love. All across the country the dead are rising, and it is Elizabeth Bennet, a fearsome warrior who is not only armed with her wit and charm but also a sword, who must fight the “unmentionables” and fight for her true love.

Response Activities: 1: Soundtrack to the Novel. This activity will be done once the novel is completed, and it will demonstrate a the student’s understanding and analysis of the different types of love in the novel. a. Students will create a soundtrack to accompany the novel //Pride and Prejudice.// b. They will have to choose at least 10 songs for their compilation. c. They will need to write a brief paragraph (3-4 sentences) for each song saying why they chose it, and what significant moment or event it accompanies in the novel. d. The scenes and events they chose songs for must cover the entirety of the novel, and they must include a love song for at least 2 other couples besides Elizabeth and Darcy.

2: Create your own Manga This activity will have students focus on an important scene in either //Crown Duel// or //Pride and Prejudice.// They will get to focus in and analyze a scene, as well as use their artistic and creative abilities to play around with the characters while still maintaining the essence of the story. a. Students will select a chapter for either //Crown Duel// or //Pride and Prejudice// to illustrate. b. The can chose to keep with the original text and illustrate the key moments in the chapter they selected, or they can chose to adapt the original text and add other elements in to the story. c. With either choice the student must explain why they chose those key elements to illustrate, and their significance to the chapter. Or they must describe how their adaption to either text enhanced the story, and still kept with the core elements of the plot. d. There must be at least 4 illustrations to accompany the chapter that the student has selected.

3: Comparing Characters This activity will connect the novel of //Pride and Prejudice// with character that they are more familiar with in either television or movies. a. The students must select a couple in //Pride and Prejudice// and write a comparison between them and another modern couple in a movie or television show. b. The must analyze the 2 couples relationships and explain how they are similar and how they are perhaps different. c. They must also include a paragraph on what, if any advice the couples would give to each other.

Texts: Austen, Jane. //Pride and Prejudice//. London: Penguin, 2003 Grahame-Smith, Seth, Jane Austen, Tony Lee, and Cliff Richards. //Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the Graphic Novel//. New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, 2010. Smith, Sherwood. //Crown Duel//. San Diego: Harcourt Brace &, 1997.