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The Individual vs. The Group11th Grade American Literature

3 Overall Learning Goals

Students will analyze "group think" and its role in tragedies and success in US history

Students will draw comparisons from texts to their own lives

Students will begin to recognize the theme across variety of genres

3 Learning Objectives

Psychomotor

Students will arrange the classroom in the imbalanced ways they see characters encountering the world in the texts

Cognitive

Students will extend knowledge from the classroom to realworld experiences

Affective

Students will resolve a tension within a text using self-expression in a paper format

SOL Objectives

11.4.e : Analyze information from a text to draw conclusions

11.4.d : Generalize ideas from selections to make predictions about other texts.

11.3.c : Discuss American literature as it reflects traditional and contemporary themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres.