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11-3-R-3

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Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

Students will apply critical thinking skills to reading and writing.

 For more specific genre information, please refer to Genre Guidance (page 4 of the Support Documents.).

 

READING: Students will comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and respond to a variety of complex texts of all literary and informational genres from a variety of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives.
11.3.R.3 Students will analyze how authors use key literary elements to contribute to meaning and interpret how themes are connected across texts:
  • theme
  • archetypes

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

  • Students will continue to identify literary elements.
  • Students will continue to explain how literary elements contribute to theme and meaning.
  • Students will continue to interpret how themes are connected across texts.

 

  • Teachers remind students how to identify different literary elements.
  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to identify literary elements.
  • Teachers remind students how literary elements influence the meaning of a text or across texts.
  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to take the literary elements they have found and find deeper meaning in the text using these elements.
  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about their interpretations of elements influencing theme and meaning.
  • Teachers provide multiple occasions for students to find thematic connections across texts based on each author’s use of literary elements.
  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback about how students connect themes across texts.

Supporting Resource

Teacher Insights

 

  • Some elements from earlier grade levels are not listed. The elements listed should be the focus for this grade.  However, students should also be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills from previous grade levels.

  • Literary Elements are the essential parts used in storytelling in almost all types of literature. Definitions of these elements listed above are found in the OSDE Glossary; they are further explained, along with numerous other literary elements, on the following site: literarydevices.com.

  • As students analyze these elements they should be able to clearly identify the “what” (thoroughly describing the author’s use of an element) while articulating how it contributes meaning of the text.  For example:

    • How does the setting establish a tone or create a mood?  

    • Do multiple plot lines make the protagonist’s story more complex?

    • Does the plot line include two antagonists so the protagonist has to overcome a man vs man conflict and a man vs. self conflict?

    • How does the development of the main character help illustrate the theme?

  • The standard is extended even more by asking students to interpret themes across texts.

    • This involves analyzing multiple texts with a similar theme and explaining how each author develops those themes.

    • As students identify themes, they need to make an interpretation which involves finding the meaning behind or the significance of a text.  

  • It is important to remember that theme is different from subject.  

    • The subject is the topic that the text is based on, but the theme is an opinion on the subject. A statement of theme can also be applied to other texts and our lives.  

    • Example: Students may read all of or an excerpt from any of the following texts that deal with themes related to war and analyze how each author addresses a theme. Each text can then be discussed in a synthesis essay.

Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.

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