Adaptive Perseverance: Students will explore multiple perspectives on achieving redemption, understanding that paths to redemption are often complex and require perseverance.
Learner’s Mindset: Encourage open-mindedness in interpreting characters’ actions and motivations for redemption.
Critical Thinking: Analyze the novel’s portrayal of redemption, considering cultural, social, and personal factors.
Global Citizenship: Discuss the impact of Afghanistan's socio-political context on the characters' lives and their quests for redemption, fostering an understanding of global issues.
In what ways do the actions of Amir towards Hassan define the concept of betrayal and redemption?
How do the socio-political changes in Afghanistan affect the characters’ paths to redemption?
How does the novel portray forgiveness in the context of personal growth and redemption?
Critical Reading and Analysis: Students learn to dissect complex texts, understanding themes, character development, and authorial intent.
Empathy and Ethical Reasoning: By examining the characters' quests for redemption, students develop empathy and explore ethical dilemmas.
Discussion and Debate: Engaging in class discussions and debates enhances listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills.
Cultural and Historical Contextualization: Students gain insights into Afghanistan's history and culture, enriching their global awareness.
Reflective Thinking: Students reflect on themes of redemption, betrayal, and forgiveness in the novel.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.
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