Coming of Age
Skills include:
Skills include:
- identifying how texts in this unit illustrate the theme of innocence to experience
- identifying how an author develops his or her ideas over multiple texts
- analyzing how characters fulfill archetypal literary roles
Concepts include:
Concepts include:
- examining novels in which characters exhibit growth, usually stemming from loss (bildungsromans)
- analyzing the culture in which a character develops affects the maturation process
- examining how authors write novels that are reflective of their time periods