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The Hajj: American Literature and pilgrimage

The Hajj: American Literature and pilgrimage. A Unit designed for the study of American Literature in High School. Why study pilgrimage narratives?.

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The Hajj: American Literature and pilgrimage

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  1. The Hajj: American Literature and pilgrimage A Unit designed for the study of American Literature in High School.

  2. Why study pilgrimage narratives? • Whether they are motivated by culture, religion, politics, or personal interest, all Americans encounter pilgrimages in their lives. (1) To study the Muslim Hajj, especially as experienced by Malcolm X, and to compare other pilgrimage narratives across literary genres give students an opportunity to understand this important archetype in American life.

  3. Why study pilgrimage narratives? The study of literary archetypes (2) has been a common way to teach literary patterns. Some writers have attempted to categorize different archetypes (3); however, there is no real limit to the number of archetypes that exist The pilgrimage archetype is an archetype worthy of study. (4)

  4. Connection Common Core • Common Core State Curriculum: Reading CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2 • Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. Common Core State Curriculum Writing CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

  5. Unit Design

  6. UNIT objective TSW analyze themes related to pilgrimage narratives in American literature and non-fiction in order to compose a pilgrimage narrative.

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