Rationale: I will be using House on Mango Street, Maggie, and "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath because all three of these texts offer insight into the multiple approaches that artists to take to record their thoughts about their surroundings, the people in their imaginations as expressions of effects of the world's circumstances. Artists, particularly through written text, use their medium to explore identity through their characters and the scenarios that they construct Each also uses their work to explore the gender issues of their contemporary times in particular. This is valuable for students when seeing how far our own society has come or how far it still has to come, but also for adolescents looking to discover themselves and understand their own changing role in society as they look to further their educations after high school or enter the job market.
Theme: Female Self-Identity: I want students to use all three texts to see how females have developed a sense of self in a variety of cultures and historical contexts. They will find that society often confines of female self-discovery by dictating the circumstances under which ambition and freedom are exercised.
Essential Questions: How do women come to know themselves?
How do societal norms affect a female's self perception as she grows up?
What does it mean to be a fully grown woman?
Objectives: Students will be able to write from multiple perspectives (through various writing assignments given to them), have a greater understanding of similes/metaphors, satire, and poetic devices, and be able to explain how authors interpret their worlds through their work.
Good start--I'm a little concerned with the run-on, slightly unclear Rationale section:
ReplyDeletethe multiple approaches that artists to take to record their thoughts about their surroundings, the people in their imaginations as expressions of effects of the world's circumstances.....? revise/simplify?