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English Language Arts Grade 11-12 [2011]
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Reading: Literature Standard 3
Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
 
  • American Literary Humor - Mark Twain, George Harris and Nathaniel Hawthorne
    In this three-part curriculum unit, students examine structure and characterization in several short stories and consider the significance of humor through a study of several American writers. One or all lessons can be taught individually or linked together as a unit on 19th century American humor.
  • Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
    Students study setting, plot, and character development in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, and discuss its impact on American theatre. Students will participate in a group reading and analysis of the play and share their collective findings with the class.
  • Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral
    In the lessons of this curriculum unit, students: Explore the use of multiple voices in narration; learn about the social and economic conditions of the rural South in the 1920s and about William Faulkner's life; and read, annotate, and discuss the text in class, individually and in groups.

 

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