Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.1G Grade 12 CPI 3

 

Standard: 3.1 Reading

 

Strand: G - Comprehension Skills & Response to Text

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will distinguish between essential and nonessential information, identifying the use of proper references and propaganda techniques where present.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·      Students examine three tragedies from different eras, such as Sophocles’ Antigone, Racine’s Phaedra, and Miller’s Death of a Salesman. They discuss how the characteristics of tragedy have changed over time and then construct a definition for contemporary tragedy.

 

·      Using a reference giving a chronology of America’s literary heritage, students create a visual timeline showing distinct literary movements. Small groups of students then research the characteristics, authors, and literary works central to each movement, and that data is then added to the timeline.