Where Do I Fit In?
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 Book
The Mood of a Verb
Read page 146 in the grammar book. Then, complete exercise A on page 147.
B. Peer revision groups for rough draft of biography
B. Continue reading The Awakening and completing the New American Notebook as you read.
C. Closing: Discuss the New American Notebook.
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 Book
The Mood of a Verb
Read page 146 in the grammar book. Then, complete exercise A on page 147.
B. Peer revision groups for rough draft of biography
B. Continue reading The Awakening and completing the New American Notebook as you read.
C. Closing: Discuss the New American Notebook.