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Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: Literature
 * Conceptual Lens:** Poetry
 * Unit Length:** 9 weeks


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * High school modern language students will study the odes of Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda. They will translate, analyze, and present his odes using multimedia applications and then create and recite their own poems in the spirit of Neruda. They will compare his life and work with that of an American poet from the same time period and of similar renown to see similarities and differences in how cultures view poets. ||

ordinary things Neruda literature metaphor imagery || translation analysis writing ||
 * **Spanish** || **English** ||
 * poetry

Students will understand that:
Common things are elevated in poetry; poems work in two languages. Language transcends culture. Poets have a role in culture. Poems reflect author's intentions.

How are common things elevated and understood in two languages using poetry?