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Standard Course of Study :: English III

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English III

Goal 4, Objective 4.01

Goal 4

The learner will critically analyze text to gain meaning, develop thematic connections, and synthesize ideas.

Objective 4.01

Interpret meaning for an audience by:
- examining the functions and the effects of narrative strategies such as plot, conflict, suspense, point of view, characterization, and dialogue.
- interpreting the effect of figures of speech (e.g., personification, oxymoron) and the effect of devices of sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia).
- analyzing stylistic features such as word choice and links between sense and sound.
- identifying ambiguity, contradiction, irony, parody, and satire.
- demonstrating how literary works reflect the culture that shaped them.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Dynamic dialect: Horace Kephart and our Southern Highlanders
Students will read an excerpt from Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders and explore how language and dialect have changed over the years.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Billie Clemens.
Eroded Land, Eroded Lives: Agriculture and The Grapes of Wrath (lesson 1 of 10)
This description is of only the first lesson in the unit, to be taught before students read the novel; thus, its primary purpose is to put this novel in historical context. Toward that end, students will learn about the (unintentional) abuse of soil that allowed the Dust Bowl to be so devastating and extensive. They will also see photographs by Dorothea Lange and others depicting the wasted land and subsequent wasted dreams of thousands. See Supplemental Resources and Relevant Web Sites for material.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Annie Henry.
Family Story with Research
Using the book, When The Legends Die and a Native American story-telling unit, students gather a family story of their own.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Eric Broer.
Jonathan Edwards and the art of persuasion
In this lesson, students will study the elements of persuasive writing in Jonathan Edward's “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” according to the following criteria: speaker, audience, occasion, and means of persuasion, and then analyze a contemporary piece of writing, such as an advertisement, for similar elements.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Dave Guiley.
Singing the Song of Life
This lesson requires students to use their reading, comprehension, and analysis skills to analyze a poem and respond creatively to the selection.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Angela Taylor.
A survivor's story: How does it really feel?
Students use oral history excerpts of a Hurricane Floyd survivor to explore the concept of contradiction or irony.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
By Kristin Post.

Lesson plans on the web

Analyzing the purpose and meaning of political cartoons
In this lesson, students evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and persuasiveness. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Analyzing the stylistic choices of political cartoonists
In this lesson, students learn terminology that describes comics and political (or editorial) cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists' choices influence the messages that they communicate. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Argument, persuasion, or propaganda? Analyzing World War II posters
In this lesson that can be used in both English and social studies classes, students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda differ. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Audio listening practices: Exploring personal experiences with audio texts
In this lesson designed to develop students’ involvement with media literacy, students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to radio, music (e.g., songs on MP3 players, podcasting), and other streaming media or archived broadcasts. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Broken worlds
This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, provides a variety of options for conducting comparative analysis between two plays. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 Theatre Arts Education and English Language Arts)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Copyright infringement or not? The debate over downloading music
In this lesson, students investigate the controversial topic of downloading music from the Internet as part of a persuasive debate unit. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Decoding “The Matrix”: Exploring dystopian characteristics through film
In this lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Designing museum exhibits for “The Grapes of Wrath”: A multigenre project
In this lesson, students read The Grapes of Wrath and create multigenre projects that explore issues from the Depression era. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the unreliable biographers
Students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Exploring audience and purpose with a single issue
In this lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925—the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Exploring satire with The Simpsons
Using the images from the television show, The Simpsons, students explore the elements of satire—exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Families in Bondage
Uses letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones still in bondage to give students a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African American family life. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Crossing the River
Students consider the symbolism of the river crossing in As I Lay Dying and how Faulkner's use of multiple narrative perspectives relates to the author's thematic concerns. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Focus on first lines: Increasing comprehension through prediction strategies
In this lesson, students examine opening sentences in literary works and make predictions about the content of the texts they will read later. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE