Unit 05 · Drama, Choice & Consequence · Week 14
When obligations conflict, how should a person decide?
This five-day sequence teaches the required concepts directly, provides a local course-created text, and supports either handwriting or typing. External tools are not required.
Weekly targets
Course-created practice text
VOICE OF THE CITY: The gate must remain closed until sunrise. NIA: My brother is outside it. CAPTAIN: And three hundred families are inside it. NIA: A rule that cannot see a person is blind. CAPTAIN: A guard who sees only one person abandons the city. [Neither moves. Beyond the gate, someone knocks three times.] NIA: If I obey, I betray him. CAPTAIN: If I open it, I may betray everyone. VOICE OF THE CITY: Dawn is two hours away.
This original instructional text may be annotated, printed, performed and revised inside the course.
Identify a tragic conflict in which more than one obligation has moral force.
Identify a tragic conflict in which more than one obligation has moral force.
Read the paired position statements. List each speaker’s claim, duty, feared consequence, assumption, and missing perspective. Avoid labeling one side “good” before testing its reasoning.
Write a neutral 120-word summary of both positions.
Analyze how speakers justify obedience or resistance.
Analyze how speakers justify obedience or resistance.
Color-code appeals to law, family, community, faith, safety, reputation, and conscience. Separate a reason from a threat and a principle from self-interest.
Construct an argument map with two claims, four pieces of evidence, and one uncertainty.
Use subordination to express cause, condition, concession, and consequence precisely.
Use subordination to express cause, condition, concession, and consequence precisely.
Revise short choppy statements using because, although, unless, while, if, and therefore. Check that the conjunction states the relationship you actually mean.
Revise eight sentences from the argument map and annotate the logical relationship in each.
Evaluate decisions without assuming that a bad outcome proves a decision was irrational.
Evaluate decisions without assuming that a bad outcome proves a decision was irrational.
Trace decision → intended result → actual result → intervening forces. Identify what the character could reasonably know at the time.
Draft a thesis and two analytical paragraphs evaluating one decision fairly.
Defend an interpretation while acknowledging a credible counterreading.
Defend an interpretation while acknowledging a credible counterreading.
Use the rubric to check claim, evidence, reasoning, context, qualification, and sentence logic. Conduct a read-aloud revision for unclear pronouns and broken causal links.
Submit a 650–850 word literary analysis draft plus argument map.
Weekly mastery assessment
Submit the named product, the five daily responses, and a 150–250 word reflection answering the essential question. Objective completion alone does not establish mastery.
| Criterion | 2 · Secure | 1 · Developing | 0 · Insufficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thesis addresses a genuine conflict | Specific, accurate and complete | Partly demonstrated; revision needed | Missing, unsupported or inaccurate |
| Evidence represents both obligations accurately | Specific, accurate and complete | Partly demonstrated; revision needed | Missing, unsupported or inaccurate |
| Reasoning distinguishes motive, knowledge and outcome | Specific, accurate and complete | Partly demonstrated; revision needed | Missing, unsupported or inaccurate |
| Counterreading receives a fair response | Specific, accurate and complete | Partly demonstrated; revision needed | Missing, unsupported or inaccurate |
| Logical syntax and conventions are controlled | Specific, accurate and complete | Partly demonstrated; revision needed | Missing, unsupported or inaccurate |
Mastery: 8/10 after evaluator review. Below 8/10, revise the lowest criterion and resubmit. Submission is not the same as mastery.
□ Five daily responses
□ Principal product
□ Textual evidence
□ Revision record
□ Evaluator rubric
□ 8/10 or correction plan
Earlier notes remain in their original fields. Bring revisions and tool evidence here.