LEARN NC

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

English IV

Goal 4: The learner will analyze and critique texts from various perspectives and approaches.

Objective 4.02. Develop critiques that give an audience:
- an appreciation of how themes relate among texts.
-an understanding of how authors' assumptions, cultural backgrounds, and social values affect texts.
-an understanding of how more than one critical approach affects interpretation.

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Reading literature in translation: "Beowulf" as a case study
By comparing a number of translations of Beowulf with each other and with the basic poetic elements of Old English alliterative verse, this lesson asks students to reflect upon the nature of translation not as an act of accurate... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
In literature, interpretation is the thing
In this lesson, which focuses on Shakespeare's Hamlet, students not only read, but also think about how they are reading a text and the reasons behind divergent interpretations of critics and readers of the same character.... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Concluding the novel
In the final lesson in EDSITEment's unit "Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a funeral," students discuss a variety of possible interpretations of the novel. They then compare the the themes of the novel with those of Faulkner's... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provided by: EDSITEment