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Interprets longer, more complex passages - both fiction and non-fiction - (ie. Iliad, Othello, Gone with the Wind, Moby Dick).
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RE 9.3 Interprets longer, more complex passages - both fiction and non-fiction - (ie. Iliad, Othello, Gone with the Wind, Moby Dick):
STANDARD UNPACKED:
KNOW The student needs to know various approaches to criticism and analysis (Marxist, feminist, pyschological/Freudian, formalism) as well as have an understanding of different literary movements (Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, etc.)
ABLE TO DO The student needs to be able to respond in some form (written, oral, artistic) to the longer, more in depth pieces read at this level. S/he should be able to perform confidently as an "active" reader. S/he needs to compare the work to others within the literary movement or author's other works as well as be able to discuss it the context of other movements (i.e., Romantic work to something of neoclassicism).
RESOURCES
John Steinbeck:
- Of Mice and Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Pearl
- Cannery Row
- The Red Pony
INSTRUCTION STRATEGIES:
Romanticism:
Realism:
- ordinary details of life
- close analysis of life
- verifiable
- scientific (responding to stimuli)
- direct and simple language
Naturalism:
- deterministic--struggle against forces beyond human control
- nature as indifferent to human struggle
- humans as animals--instinctive
- death as natural
- life as a sequence of cause and effect
- chain of events flowing from one event
- inevitability
