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Big Idea:
Big Idea:
Students will survey a selection of short stories to make inferences and draw conclusions.
Student Expectations:
Student Expectations:
Priority TEKS
Priority TEKS
SC10 Writing to evaluate: Analytical, argumentative essays in which students draw upon textual details to make and explain judgments about a work’s social, historical, and/or cultural values.
Ongoing TEKS
Ongoing TEKS
SC5 Students will write and rewrite timed, in-class response.
Learning Targets:
Learning Targets:
- Evaluate the use of text structure to achieve the author's purpose.
- Evaluate how the author's diction and syntax contribute to the effectiveness of a text.
- Critique and evaluate how the author's use of language informs and shapes the perception of readers.
- Analyze how characters' behaviors and underlying motivations contribute to moral dilemmas that influence the plot and theme.
- Discuss and write about the explicit and implicit meanings of text.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What are the merits of a short story versus a longer piece of prose?
- Which literary devices are most effective at advancing plot and theme?
- How do authors build complex meaning within the confines of the short story form?
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