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

Advanced Placement English Literature

Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by exploring literature to explain its artistry and its underlying social and cultural values.

Objective 2.01. Locate, process, and comprehend texts that:

  • explain themes, issues, and concepts in order to relate complex issues from a variety of historical, stylistic, and critical stances.
  • examine significant comparisons and similarities among texts that propose different ideas related to similar concepts.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

Eyewitness to the flood
In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)