● unit packets● writing utensil● highlighter (optional)

** PLEASE, Have your homework out on your desk

and ready for me to stamp! **

Today, you need…

Turn and TalkTalk about how you analyzed The Giving Tree last night. What discoveries did you make in your analysis?

I’ll be around to stamp your homework.

If you’re behind, just keep in mind that I’m collecting these on Thursday.

Eco-Criticism

An Introduction

Ecocriticism• Determines role of nature• Analyzes embedded environmental

values• ∴ meaning comes from the role

nature plays in the text

CC Calibas

How can you apply this theory?

Try asking questions like…1. How do the characters perceive

nature?2. How does society perceive nature?3. How does nature influence the

narrative?a. How is nature influenced by the narrative?

Application to Maleficent1.How do King Stephan’s and

Maleficent’s perceptions of nature differ?

2.How do the humans perceive nature? Why do think this is?

3.How does nature impact the course of the story?

Gender Studies

An Introduction

Let’s try something…Consider the following words:fashion, football, breadwinner, pilot, strength, flower, ambitious, perseverance, compassionate, bossy, helpless, thoughtful, soft, brassy, dangerous, perpetrator, victim, attractive, opinionated, hostile, emotional

Using your first instinct, sort each of the words into one of these four categories:Male, Female, Both, Neither

Gender Studies● Examines patterns of

thought, behavior, values, power, and interactions

● People construct their own gender identities but are influenced by societal valueso Society operates under

established roles and norms for different genders

● ∴ meaning comes from the role gender plays and why that’s important

The Snapper

How can you apply this theory?

Try asking questions like…1. What gender roles are in the story?2. How do people of different genders

relate to each other?3. How do people of different genders

perceive themselves?a. How do they perceive each other?

Application to Maleficent1.How are the different roles that

Maleficent and Aurora play significant?

2.How closely do the characters in the film adhere to our society’s gender roles?

3.How closely do characters follow the gender roles of the Middle Ages?

Homework1. Read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving

Tree.2. Analyze the text using what you’ve

learned about Critical Race Theory, Ecocriticism, and Gender Studies and our class models that analyze Maleficent.

This is A LOT to do in one night. Do what you can and I’ll stamp what you bring in.

Your analysis packet is due Thursday, at the beginning of class.