English 12 · Week 3 · Heroes, Ambition, and Conscience
Literary Criticism Lenses
Reading one text through multiple critical lenses.
- Students will
- Students read one short passage through two critical lenses and cite evidence for each.
- SEL skill
- Restate another lens's view fairly before explaining your own reading
- What it looks like
- Students practice open-mindedness by considering views other than their own.
- Content focus
- Literary criticism lenses
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding the perspectives of other people and empathizing with them, including people from different backgrounds. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- RL.11-12.1: Reading: Literature, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 1
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.6 Reading and viewing closely
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Any fiction
- Popular books named: The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Frankenstein, Hamlet
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 12, Unit 1: Epic Heroes
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 12 (British and World Literature), Unit 3: Facing the Future, Confronting the Past
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 12 (British and World Literature), Unit 4: Seeing Things New
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 12 (British and World Literature), Unit 5: Discovering the Self
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 6: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 9: Working Class Hero: Hawkeye
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 10: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 11: The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
Textbook names are used only to help you find activities that fit what you teach. RoseThread Connect is not affiliated with these publishers.
More social awareness activities for English 12
- Postcolonial Voices Social awarenessThings Fall Apart and stories told from the other side of empire.
- Poetry and Grief Social awarenessElegies and supporting others in grief.
- Civic Voice Social awarenessWriting to influence a local or state decision.
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