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Literary Analysis

Ms. Sarah Moon

May 21, 2024

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Agenda

  • Live Lesson Expectations
  • SLOs, Learning Objectives, and CCSS
  • Announcements
  • Literary Analysis
  • Breakout Rooms

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Live Lesson Expectations

  1. Be respectful!
  2. Participate
  3. Make the most of your time with your teachers!
  4. Stay on topic, please!
  5. Never give out private information
  6. You are a scholar here; do your best to use correct English grammar

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*If there is anything you’d like to discuss, please stick around after the lesson is over

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Student Learning Objectives

Self-Motivated Learning

Critical Thinking

Academic Achievement

Proper Technology Use

Effective Communication

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Objectives & Standards

Learning Objectives:

  1. Students will apply prior knowledge of literary elements and figurative language to interpret a text’s meaning
  2. Students will construct a thesis statement to be used in a literary analysis essay

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Common Core Standards:

W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence

R.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text

R.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

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Announcements

  • Re-enroll for next year & schedule your EOY call with your counselor!

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  • May 27th - Memorial Day (No School!)

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  • Deadline to receive written feedback: June 7th (Your work will still be graded)

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  • Deadline to submit ANY work for credit: June 20th

(Senior Deadline: June 11th)

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Reminders

  • Overdue portfolio rough drafts have been dropped (Units 2-4). You still need to submit a final draft!
  • Good practice: attach anything you want to submit to your webmail, even if you are re-submitting to the dropbox.
  • We have about four weeks left in the semester, and you still have time to bring your grade up! Check out how to improve your grade on the MB: https://calcaenglish10.wixsite.com/website/improve-your-grade

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What is literary analysis?

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Literary analysis is more than just writing a summary of a fictional literary piece of work. Analyzing literature allows us to interpret the text for deeper meaning and insight. Often, this involves theme.

Remember: There isn’t one correct way to interpret a text. The point is to support your interpretation with textual evidence and commentary.

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We analyze literature using literary elements to figure out the deeper meaning of a text.

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What are literary elements?

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Literary Elements

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The good news is, you’ve been practicing with literary elements all year!

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  • Setting
  • Characters
  • Tone (how the author feels)
  • Mood (how we feel as readers/how the author makes us feel)
  • Irony
  • Conflict (internal and external)
  • Symbolism
  • Motivation
  • Imagery
  • Other figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, etc.)

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Analytical Questions to Guide You

  • How does the choice of speaker/narrator affect the text?
  • How do the setting and mood support the theme of the story?
  • How do the characters develop and how does their development contribute meaning to the text?
  • How does conflict drive the plot and mood of the story?

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  • How is figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification) used to produce meaning in the story?
  • (Poem) How do graphic elements (line length, punctuation, rhythm, etc.) contribute to its meaning?
  • How do the clues work together so that the meaning of the text is consistent?

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Let’s Practice!

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Song of Becoming by Fadwa Tuqan

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They’re only boys

who used to frolic and play

launching rainbowed kites

on the western wind,

their blue-red-green kites 5

whistling, leaping,

trading easy laughter and jokes

dueling with branches, pretending to be

great heroes in history.

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Suddenly now they’ve grown, 10

grown more than the years of a normal life,

merged with secret and passionate words,

carried love’s messages like the Bible or Quran,

to be read in whispers.

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They’ve grown to become trees 15

plunging deep roots into earth,

stretching high towards the sun.

Now their voices are ones that reject,

that knock down and build anew.

Anger smouldering on the fringes of a blocked horizon, 20

invading classrooms, streets, city quarters,

centering on squares,

facing sullen tanks with streams of stones.

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Now they shake the gallows of dawn

assailing the night and its flood. 25

They’ve grown more than the years of a life

to become the worshipped and the worshippers.

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When their torn limbs merged with the stuff of our earth,

they became legends,

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they grew and grew, becoming

larger than all poetry.

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Breakout Rooms!

  • In breakout rooms, you are going to practice writing a thesis statement for a literary analysis!
  • As a group, you will discuss and analyze the literary elements of the poem.
  • You will work with your assigned teacher to compose a thesis statement in response to the poem. Think about all the different literary elements the poem makes use of and how one or a few of these literary elements impact a possible theme of the poem.
  • You may share your thesis statements when we return to the main room.

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