Unit 6: "Literature Reflects Life: Making Sense of Our World
Suggested Student Objectives
- Describe how point of view is developed in a variety of genres-- drama, short stories, and poetry.
- Explain the basic characteristics of comedy and tragedy.
- Compare novels with their theatrical film versions.
- Identify a common theme is different novels and advance an argument about that theme.
Suggested Works
LITERARY TEXTS
Stories
Fantasy
Short Stories
Poetry
Drama
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
[None for this unit]
ART, MUSIC, AND MEDIA
Art
Film
Stories
- Home of the Brave (Katherine Applegate)
- A Girl Named Disaster (Nancy Farmer)
- Diary if a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Jeff Kinney)
- Letters from a Nut (Ted L. Nancy)
- Cyrano (Geraldine McCaughrean)
- The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Fantasy
- The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
- The Grey King (Susan Cooper)
- Peter Pan in Scarlet (Gerladine McCaughrean)
Short Stories
- Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories (Sandra Cisneros)
- Best Shorts: Favorite Stories fir Sharing (Avi)
- Little Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories for the Middle School (Peter Guthrie)
- American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices (Lawrence Yep)
Poetry
- Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women (Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul Janeczko)
Drama
- Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
[None for this unit]
ART, MUSIC, AND MEDIA
Art
- Honore Daumier, Andre-Marie-Jean Jacques Dupin Aine (1929/1930)
- Honore Daumier, Antoine-Maurice-Apollonaire, Comte D'Argout (1929)
- Honore Daumier, Antoine Odier (1929)
- Honore Daumier, Auguste Gady (1929)
- Honore Daumier, August-Hilarion, Comte de Keratry (1929)
Film
- Fred Schepisi, Dir., Roxanne (1987)