Essential Questions and Understandings:
How do identity intersections affect our worldview and experiences?
How do historical circumstances impact our reading of texts?
Historical circumstances have long-term effects on our individual and collective identities
Objectives:
Students will know:
At least one way that historical circumstances affect worldviews and perspectives
At least one way that historical circumstances affect our identities
At least one way that historical circumstances affect our reading of texts
Students will be able to:
Support inferred and explicit textual analysis with textual evidence
Produce coherent and appropriate writing in multiple situations and styles
Demonstrate an understanding of thematic analysis within a text