Maus Chapter Three

October 9, 2019

Standards

RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme 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.9-10.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create effects such as mystery, tension, or surprise

RL.9-10.6 Analyze a particular perspective or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

Obj: I can use objective summaries to identify themes and analyze their development.

I can analyze author's choices in text structure to create mystery, tension, or suspense.

I can analyze a cultural experience through literature. 

Starter

Connect the song Blackbird by the Beatles to the ideas of freedom and conflict.

Vocabulary: 

Word; Theme 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic

Your Definition: 

Activity: What is a developing theme in Maus or Night?

Activity

1.  TQE

Thoughts. Questions. Epiphanies.

Based on what we just read and create at least two thoughts, questions, and epiphanies with your table. Eventually you will add these ideas to the board for a whole class discussion.

2.  Partner Read Maus

With a partner read through chapter three of Maus. 

Once again focus on the ideas of conflict, family, and freedom. 

We will have another TQE based on ideas read in this chapter. 

Closure

What is one thing you learned from the TQE?