Original PromptGiven above-grade-level texts (8th grade level), Kamron will analyze complex themes, character motivations, and author techniques to draw inferences and support conclusions with text evidence, achieving 90% accuracy or higher on comprehension and written analysis tasks in 4 out of 5 trials.
This resource focuses on mastering the skills necessary for literary analysis, emphasizing the examination of complex themes, character motivations, and authorial techniques in literature. It outlines several learning objectives, including defining themes using textual evidence, inferring deeper character motivations, and identifying various author techniques such as repetition and imagery. The resource also provides a diagnostic assessment featuring a passage illustrating a drought and its impact on characters, encouraging learners to analyze the theme, author’s techniques, and character motivations within the context. Additional sections offer a guided approach to analysis with a structured, step-by-step process to help students identify themes, motivations, and techniques in literary texts, alongside examples and a model for character motivation analysis using the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning framework. By engaging with different texts, such as 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, learners are encouraged to reflect on the nature of power through imagery and irony, culminating in a thorough understanding of how to dissect literary works effectively.