Does the world shape a person's character? Scholars choose a novel or play, take a close look, and write essays about how surroundings affect a character. Writers also analyze literary elements in an excerpt from a novel and poetic devices used in a poem.

Concepts

essay writing, advanced placement, college preparation

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Allow the use of highlighters to mark key details in text

Classroom Considerations

• Does not provide text for Under the Feet of Jesus
• Readers may need resources to help choose a play or novel for writing essay three
  

Pros

• Offers a variety of text for questions (poem, novel, plays)
• Gives rubrics for scoring to assess understanding
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.9-10.1.a W.9-10.2.a