Exploring Identity and Culture Through Literature
Focus Text: The Awakening
Essential Questions:
1. How does your culture shape your identity?
2. How does literature teach us about our identities?
A. Opening Assignment: Grammar Practice
Parallelism
Wait for instructions for the mini-lesson.
B. Introduction to the new unit.
C. As a pre-assessment, answer the essential questions.
D. Complete circle of interviews question activity.
Explain overall assignment and rubric.
E. Closing: Answer questions regarding the Circle of Interviews activity.
Note: Your 3rd literary terms vocabulary quiz will be this Friday, 1/9.
The following words will be covered.
a. couplet
b. hyperbole
c. irony
d. memoir
e. metacognition
f. metaphor
g. motif
h. myth
i. narrative
j. novella
k. onomatopoeia
l. plot
m. oxymoron
n. paradox
o. parallel structure
p. paraphrase