Lesson Plan:LitExchange

Subject : English-Language Arts
Grade : Eleventh & Twelfth
Strand : Reading
Substrand 3.0 : Literary Response and Analysis

Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent themes. The selections in Recommended Readings in Literature, Grades Nine Through Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students.

Concept : Structural Features of Literature

Standard:

3.1

Analyze characteristics of subgenres (e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres.

Concept : Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text

Standard:

3.2

Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.

Standard:

3.3.

Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author's style, and the "sound" of language achieve specific rhetorical or aesthetic purposes or both.

Standard:

3.4.

Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions.