Final Period

UNIT 14: AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: CALIBRATING THE WEIGHING

SCALES
Enduring Understanding
Essential Questions

Course Code
(Lit 101)

Justice always adheres to mans sense of right

and wrong.
Week

Content
Standards

Demonstrate
understanding of
the writers
mastery of
handling the plot
in weaving a
tale of revenge
Demonstrate
understanding of
the writers
effective use of
atmosphere and
tone, dialogue and
setting to unravel

Essential Learning
Declarative
Functional
Knowledge
Knowledge

Irony in the
perfect crime
in The Cask of
Amontillado
by
Edgar Allan
Poe

Intended
Learning Outcomes (ILO)

Suggested
Teaching/Learn
ing
Activities
(TLAs)

Recognizing how
each of the
elements of fiction
contributes to the
total impact of the
story

Follow the trail of events

leading to the
entombing of Fortunato
by making a timeline of
events before and after
his death.

News reporting

Rubrics

Making sense of
the meaning of
justice in the story

Justify whether the

murder of Fortunato can
be considered a perfect
crime through a small
group discussion

Debate

Synthesis

Relating the life of

the author with his
own literary work

Assessment
Tasks (ATs)

the gripping
events of the story

Demonstrate
understanding
how an injustice
could lead to a
persons spiritual
conversion
Demonstrate
understanding of
Gods purpose for
giving
humankind
tragedies,
setbacks,
downfalls and
disappointments

Mans spiritual
conversion
redemption in
God Sees the
Truth but Waits

Recognizing how
the elements of
fiction contribute to
the total impact of
the story
Determining the
relationship of
conflict to the
development of
character
Understanding the
meaning of the
theme in various
levels (literal,
metaphorical,
metaphysical etc.)

Trace the events that

lead to the incarceration
of the character through
an investigation of the
crime before and after
the murder is
committed.

Narrative
report

Reaction
paper

Interpret the meaning of

truth while relating
each meaning to the
developments in the life
of Aksyonof. Discuss in
small groups.

Synthesis

Create a
poem
expressing
the same
theme

Demonstrate
understanding of
the doctrine of
retribution
underscoring
that mans work
will be rewarded
or punished in the
next life or the
afterlife

Demonstrate
understanding
that man cannot
escape or even
alter his/her
destiny or fate

Retribution in
The Mispaired
Anklet by R.K.
Narayan

Recognizing justice
as a system of
reward and
punishment
according to the
deeds done by man
Understanding the
different notions of
justice and morality
which vary in every
culture

Fates injustice
in
La Reine
Blanche
by
Tanith Lee

Making sense of the

reality that destiny
or fate is
inescapable.
Tracing the
narrative
framework of the
story
Understanding the
rationality in the
tragic fate of the

Rationalize the
punishment of Kovalan
using dharma and
Christian moral
standards as bases.
Conduct a small group
discussions.

Follow the events in the

life of the king as well
as the queen. Try to
intertwine their lives
where both live in the
same era or time. In
dyads, re-enact their
meeting where both are
still young.

Mock debate

Short skit of
the
mock wedding

Writing of a
court
resolution/
decision

Rewrite the
story with a
happy
ending.

characters
Demonstrate
understanding of
the moral
doctrine of the
Hindus and how
it governs them in
the proper
conduct of their
lives
Demonstrate
understanding
how justice
comes in the form
of brutal ironies

Brutal ironies
in
Karma
by
Gopal
Boratham

Recognizing the
need to conform to
the moral law to
subscribe to the
right moral conduct

Set the love story of

Ganesh and Gita in the
Philippines and
prosecute the lovers for
their violation of the
Respecting the
moral law. Contrast how
multi-cultural norms justice is served to the
that vary from
lovers using the Hindus
country to country
dharma with our own
civil law and church law.
Acknowledging the
concept of
morality as
relative or varying
depending on the
established norms
of a society

Mock trial

.Writing

verdict