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Analyze Bender's structural choices in "The Rememberer" and how those contribute to the meaning of the text.
Short Story: “The Rememberer” by Aimee Bender
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Tasks that represents the peak thinking of the lesson - mastery will indicate whether or not objective was achieved.
For what might Ben's dramatic reverse evolution be a metaphor? Provide specific evidence from the text to support your ideas and carefully explain your thinking.
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How does this story exemplify the genre of magical realism?
How does the narrative point of view impact the reader's understanding of events? How would this story be different if told from Ben's point of view instead of Annie's?
"The Rememberer" covers a long stretch of time. What techniques does Bender use to manipulate time in the story?
Reading and/or task to be completed at home in preparation for the next lesson.
Book: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell pp. 225 – 235
While reading, answer the following questions.
How did the girls feel when they first arrived at St. Lucy's? How do you the nuns react to their behavior?
What happened to the boys in the pack? How do the girls feel?
Who are the girls' mothers and fathers? Why have they been ostracized by both humans and wolves?
Why were the children sent to St. Lucy's? What were they expected to learn there?
What do the nuns start to give the girls at the end of Stage 1? What is the significance of this moment?
How do the girls feel at the start of Stage 2? Why don't they leave?
Why does the pack begin to hate Jeannette? Why do they hate Mirabella more?
How does the narrator describe her place in the pack in Stage 2?
What happens between Mirabella and Claudette?
What is the significance of Claudette's reaction to MIrabella at the end of Stage 2?
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RL.9-10.5 — Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
RL.9-10.6 — Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.9-10.1 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.9-10.6 — Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
RL.9-10.1 — Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.9-10.2 — Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.9-10.3 — Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
SL.9-10.1 — Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9—10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL.9-10.6 — Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
W.9-10.9.a — Apply grades 9—10 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work [e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare]").
W.9-10.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Analyze how diction and narrative point of view reveals the central conflict within the story.
Observe and analyze paintings within the magical realism style.
Standards
RL.9-10.7SL.9-10.1SL.9-10.6
Analyze how the villagers' response to the drowned man reveals the symbolism of his character.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4
Analyze how García Márquez uses characterization to convey a theme.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3
Analyze how characters and events develop Allende's theme about words/language.
Analyze how Cortázer uses diction and narrative perspective to establish an eerie mood.
RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5RL.9-10.6
Rewrite a scene from "House Taken Over" from the narrative point of view of Irene, maintaining characterization and mood.
W.9-10.3
Analyze the effect the Book of Sand has on the narrator and the symbolism of his transformation.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Analyze the diction and imagery Paz uses to describe the different stages of the narrator's relationship with the wave.
L.9-10.5RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4
RL.9-10.5RL.9-10.6
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.6
Analyze how the girls' experience at St. Lucy's serves as an allegory for assimilation.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Brainstorm ideas for a magical realism short story, and then plan out one idea fully using a graphic organizer.
Draft a magical realism short story, focusing on opening the story in medias res and transitioning between scenes.
W.9-10.3W.9-10.3.aW.9-10.3.c
Revise your story draft to include imagery and dialogue.
Analyze the characterization of Santiago Nasar and the town as well as the structure of the opening chapter.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5
Determine Gladwell's central ideas about memory in the podcast.
RI.9-10.1RI.9-10.2SL.9-10.3
Analyze what the characterization of Bayardo, Angela, and the circumstances of their marriage reveal about honor in this society.
Analyze how the Vicario brothers' actions and the community's response develop the ideas of honor and machismo.
Analyze how the details and structure of Chapter 4 contribute to the theme of truth in the novel.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5
Analyze how the final chapter resolves conflicts in the novel and develops the theme of truth.
Engage in a Socratic seminar considering the larger themes of guilt and blame in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, supporting arguments with strong textual evidence.
SL.9-10.1SL.9-10.1.aSL.9-10.1.bSL.9-10.1.cSL.9-10.1.d
Write a well-developed essay explaining how the structure of Chronicle of a Death Foretold reveals an important theme from the novella.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.5W.9-10.1W.9-10.9.a
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