1 / 7

Essential Questions & Overarching Themes

English 2H Summer Novels. Essential Questions & Overarching Themes. Essential Questions. How do we define bildungsroman? (bellwork) How do we define courage? How does understanding literature, along with the geography, and culture from which it came, expand your world view?.

daria
Download Presentation

Essential Questions & Overarching Themes

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. English 2H Summer Novels Essential Questions & Overarching Themes

  2. Essential Questions • How do we define bildungsroman? (bellwork) • How do we define courage? • How does understanding literature, along with the geography, and culture from which it came, expand your world view?

  3. From The Red Badge of Courage: “He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage” (Crane 67).

  4. From To Kill a Mockingbird: "Courage is when you know you're licked from the beginning, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what“ (Lee).

  5. With your group • Create a bubble map with the word “courage” on the inside; come up with as many adjectives as you can to describe courage: Adj. Adj. Courage Adj. Adj. Adj. Adj.

  6. With your group • Now, respond to the frame question: In what ways does Henry Fleming show courage? In what ways does he lack courage? Be as detailed and specific as possible (use appropriate quotes where possible). Adj. Adj. Courage Adj. Adj. Adj. Adj.

  7. Independent reflection (RBOC): • In what ways is The Red Badge of Courage a bildungsroman? • In what ways does The Red Badge of Courage illustrate heroism? • How does understanding literature expand your world view? • Your response should be long enough to fully answer the question, including appropriate details from the story.

More Related