Curriculum is divided by Course, or subject area: some examples are English, Biology, and History. In each course, the teacher divides the Course by Unit: For example, in English, one Unit could be Literary Analysis. The Unit is then divided into Lessons. For example, in the Literary Analysis Unit, one lesson could be identifying Plot in a short story.
A Lesson must be narrow in scope and focus. Scope is the breadth and
range of the content to be covered in the lesson. Focus is what will be
emphasized in the content. In the above example, the scope could be plot
in the short story “The
Lady or The Tiger.” The focus could be diagramming the plot of “The
Lady or The Tiger” with emphasis of where the climax of the story would
be.
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