Assist your pupils with literary analysis by discussing and exploring theme. This plan, the twelfth in a series of fourteen, builds in some time to explore theme as a class. Learners also blog about the main event in their stories and the characters, focusing in particular on how the characters changed over the course of the story.

Concepts

short stories, literary themes, critical reading, literary analysis, characters, character analysis, plot, blogging

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Classroom Considerations

• This is part of a series, so some elements, like the blogging assignment, are explained in more detail in previous lessons; see the materials for a full unit overview

Pros

• Requires learners to use blogging in a meaningful way to write about the characters in their stories

Cons

• The instructions for the critical analysis discussion are vague and a bit confusing, so you will likely need to adapt this portion

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.3 RL.11-12.2 RL.11-12.3 W.9-10.6 W.11-12.6