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ADVANCEDADVANCED PlacementPlacement
ADVANCEDADVANCED PlacementPlacement
““Step it up a notch!” Step it up a notch!”
• Figure out WHAT the author did.
• Figure out HOW the author did it.
• What does this say about society or humankind?
Constant Terms to Consider
The ____________ ____________ by _______________
Is about ________________________,
And reveals that ________________________________.
(genre) (author)
(topic/abstract concept)
(opinion statement about humanity
or human condition)
•Justice
•Gender role
•Generation gaps
•leadership
•Loyalty
•Fear
•Passion
•Truth
Claim CommentaryData
Thesis Statement
Topic Sentence
(What you wish to prove)
Direct Quotes,
Summary
Paraphrase Details
Opinion
Insight
Student View
1. The alarm clock used in the opening scene of Native Son is a symbol.
2. Richard Wright’s Native Son is an honest depiction of Black life in the 1930s.
3. Blacks will turn to black on black crime rather than target whites because of the inequality in the solving of crimes in the black neighborhood.
4. Wright uses Bigger’s fear to drive his action.5. Bigger’s extreme grouping of whites as the enemy is just as
naïve as the white’s underestimation of the intellect of the
black man.
The color of your lens determines what you see.
The color of your lens determines what you
see.
Formalist
Biographical Historical
Gender
Psychological
SociologicalMythological
Deconstructionist
Using your MWD group, select a Critical Approach to Literature Lens
Group 1 Formalist Criticism
Group 2 Biographical Criticism
Group 3 Historical Criticism
Group 4 Gender Criticism
Group 5 Psychological Criticism
Deconstructionist Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Create a 4 minute presentation explaining your group’s assigned critical lens
Each presentation will be accompanied by a Power Point presentation.
The Power Point is to serve as a visual aid, thus you must know your information.
When applicable, use Wright’s “Native Son” as the text on which you cast your lens. When not applicable, find another suitable text to demonstrate its effects.
Presentation Tips:
Types of Questions: