The Individual vs. The Group11th Grade American Literature

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

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

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

Affective

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

Cognitive

Students will extend knowledge from the classroom to realworld experiences

Psychomotor

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

Students will begin to recognize the theme across variety of genres

Students will draw comparisons from texts to their own lives

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