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Write a scene describing your journey from school to home using Nafisi's structure as well as descriptive details, figurative language, and other stylistic elements.
Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi — pp. 26–27
Rubric: Part I Narrative Writing Rubric (G10, U5, L11)
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Imitate the scene on pages 26–27 in which Nafisi describes Sanaz's journey home from the reading group by writing a description of your journey from school to your home. Your scene should follow the same structure as Nafisi and include descriptive details and figurative language as well as other stylistic elements.
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Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi — pp. 81–96
While reading, answer the following questions.
How does Nafisi feel when she returns to the Tehran airport? Why?
How does Nafisi characterize her marriage to her first husband?
What is Nafisi's family's relationship with politics?
What was the mood on campus at the University of Oklahoma?
Why is the fall of 1977 memorable to Nafisi?
Where does Nafisi get a teaching job? In what way does the university become an important site of the revolution?
Who is Dr. A? How does Nafisi describe him?
What ideological battle was taking place over the Iranian constitution?
What does Nafisi ask her students on the first day of class? How does she answer that question herself?
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W.9-10.3 — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
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.9-10.2 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.9-10.3 — Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
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.
W.9-10.6 — Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
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 and why Nafisi uses flashbacks to structure her memoir.
Develop questions for a research topic, gather and evaluate the credibility of sources, and begin to take notes for research.
Standards
W.9-10.7W.9-10.8
Create an outline for a slideshow presentation.
W.9-10.5W.9-10.8
Design and build an information slideshow presentation, complete with clear bullet points images, and a written paragraph in the speaker notes.
SL.9-10.4SL.9-10.5W.9-10.2W.9-10.2.aW.9-10.2.bW.9-10.2.cW.9-10.6
Build background knowledge about the Iranian Revolution in preparation for Reading Lolita in Tehran.
RI.9-10.2SL.9-10.1
Analyze how Nafisi opens her memoir and what events led her to create a reading group.
RI.9-10.3RI.9-10.5
Analyze how certain events and anecdotes further develop Nafiisi's ideas about life in Tehran.
RI.9-10.3RI.9-10.4
Analyze how the reading group develops Nafisi's ideas about insubordination.
RI.9-10.3RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.5
Analyze Rushdie's purpose and rhetorical choices in his essay "On Censorship."
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.6
Analyze the impact of the reading group on the girls' identities and how that relates to Nafisi's theme of individuality.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.3RI.9-10.5
Study a mentor text and plan a scene in which you describe your journey from school to home.
RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.5W.9-10.3
W.9-10.3
Analyze the shifting mood of the revolution and how it impacts life at the university.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.3
Analyze Lorraine Ali's purpose in her article "Behind the Veil."
RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.6
Analyze how the Gatsby trial further develops Nafisi's theme about the importance of literature.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.6
Analyze how individuals show resistance to the government's cultural revolution as it impacts the University of Tehran.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.3RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.5
Analyze how Nafisi grapples with the moral dilemma of complying with wearing the veil to return to teaching.
Analyze how Nafisi develops the theme of the importance of art to individuals and to a community.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.5
Analyze how Rumi conveys meaning through imagery and figurative language.
L.9-10.5RL.9-10.2RL.9-10.4SL.9-10.1
Analyze the role of imagination and courage in our relationship to others and our society.
Analyze the mood and structure at the start of Part 4.
RI.9-10.2RI.9-10.4RI.9-10.5
Write a short descriptive scene that establishes mood through diction and imagery.
RI.9-10.4W.9-10.3
Analyze the internal and external conflicts the women and Nafisi face over the decision to leave Iran.
Analyze how the final anecdotes of the memoir develop Nafisi's themes about choice, freedom, and fiction.
Engage in a Socratic seminar about Reading Lolita in Tehran 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
Brainstorm ideas for a personal narrative essay and complete a graphic organizer for the chosen topic.
W.9-10.4
Complete an outline for a personal narrative.
W.9-10.4W.9-10.5
Complete a draft of a personal narrative.
W.9-10.3.aW.9-10.3.bW.9-10.3.cW.9-10.3.dW.9-10.5
Provide feedback on a classmate's personal narrative and revise one's own personal narrative using suggestions from a peer review.
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