If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to identify and analyze key themes and symbols in the text.
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Students will be able to trace the narrator’s development from childhood to adolescence to womanhood and pinpoint key events in her development process.
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Students will learn about the many historical and cultural allusions made in the text, and understand what impact they had on the narrator.
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Students will gain a greater understanding of the autobiographical literature genre.
