Curriculum / ELA / 10th Grade / Unit 2: Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus / Lesson 22
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Write the body paragraphs of the literary analysis essay, using smooth embedding of evidence.
Book: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — full text
Rubric: Purple Hibiscus Literary Analysis Prompt and Rubric 9–12
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Draft the body paragraphs of your literary analysis essay using smooth embedding of evidence.
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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.
W.9-10.1.a — Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
W.9-10.1.b — Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience's knowledge level and concerns.
W.9-10.1.c — Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
W.9-10.1.d — Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
W.9-10.4 — Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.9-10.5 — Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
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.
RL.9-10.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
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.
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.9-10.4 — Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
SL.9-10.6 — Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
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Write a strong introduction and conclusion for the literary analysis essay.
Analyze Binyavanga Wainaina's use of satire in his essay "How to Write About Africa."
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RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.6
Analyze how Adichie uses anecdotes to convey the danger of a single story.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.6
Analyze how Adichie uses characterization and structure to introduce the Achike family.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5
Analyze how Adichie develops the motifs of silence and speech through certain key scenes in the novel.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.6
Analyze how Audre Lorde uses structural elements to develop the speaker's perspective.
RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Analyze how Adichie develops the reader's understanding about the dichotomy between European culture and Igbo culture in Nigeria.
RL.9-10.3
Analyze how Adichie uses foils and imagery when introducing Aunty Ifeoma and her children.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.6
Apply the characteristics of postcolonial literature to a poem and Purple Hibiscus.
Analyze how Adichie uses characterization and imagery to develop themes about love and religion.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4
Analyze the mood of Aunty Ifeoma's home and compare it with Papa's home
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4
Plan to write a scene from Purple Hibiscus from a different character’s perspective.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4W.9-10.3
Write a scene from Purple Hibiscus from a different character’s perspective.
W.9-10.3W.9-10.4W.9-10.6
Analyze how Adichie develops themes about corruption and defiance.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3
Analyze Kambili's changing views about religion.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.6
Analyze how Adichie uses characterization, symbolism, and structure to develop themes.
RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.5
Analyze how Adichie develops parallels between political and domestic events.
Analyze how Adichie foreshadows the events of Palm Sunday.
Analyze how Adichie uses motifs to illustrate Kambili's character development.
Analyze how Adichie uses mood and motifs to depict the aftermath of Papa's death.
RL.9-10.3RL.9-10.4RL.9-10.5
Engage in a Socratic seminar about Purple Hibiscus by 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.dSL.9-10.4
Write a strong thesis statement about how a motif develops a theme in Purple Hibiscus, and outline body paragraphs needed to support the thesis.
RL.9-10.2W.9-10.1.aW.9-10.1.bW.9-10.1.cW.9-10.4W.9-10.5
W.9-10.10W.9-10.1.aW.9-10.1.bW.9-10.1.cW.9-10.1.dW.9-10.4W.9-10.5
W.9-10.10W.9-10.1.dW.9-10.1.eW.9-10.4W.9-10.5
Provide peer feedback and make revisions to the literary analysis essay.
W.9-10.1W.9-10.10W.9-10.4W.9-10.5
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