Unit+2+The+Novel

Overview:

 * === Students apply their knowledge of literary elements to the novel and explore how those elements are developed. Focused literary elements should include plot, point of view, setting, characterization, symbolism, theme and tone. ===

Focus Standards:

 * **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.
 * **RI.9-10.3:** Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
 * **W.9-10.2:** Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
 * **SL.9-10.2:** Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally), evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
 * **L.9-10.4:** Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Student Objectives:

 * Learn about the history of the novel as a literary form.
 * Recognize the importance of historical context to the appreciation of setting and character.
 * Identify and analyze major and minor characters.
 * Analyze and explain characterization techniques.
 * Understand that novels may more than one plot and explain the use of multiple plots in //To Kill A Mockingbird//.
 * Recognize the importance of point of view in //To Kill A Mockingbird// and why it wouldn’t be the same story told from someone else’s point of view.

Suggested Texts:
Novels:
 * //Of Mice and Men// (John Steinbeck)
 * //To Kill a Mockingbird// (Harper Lee)
 * //Lord of the// //Flies// (William Golding)
 * //Animal Farm// (George Orwell)
 * //Night// (Elie Wiesel)
 * // War of the Worlds // (H.G. Wells)