LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 5

The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.

Objective 5.02

Study the characteristics of literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) through:

  • reading a variety of literature and other text (e.g., novels, autobiographies, myths, essays, magazines, plays, pattern poems, blank verse).
  • interpreting what impact genre-specific characteristics have on the meaning of the work.
  • exploring how the author's choice and use of a genre shapes the meaning of the literary work.
  • exploring what impact literary elements have on the meaning of the text such as the influence of setting or the problem and its resolution.

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