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 complete several assignments which will both expose them to and invite them to join in a current online conversation space. These activities are designed to help students relate themes in Austen's text to their personal lives and to the modern intellectual landscape in general.
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In order to take Austen's novel out of a remote abstract literary and historical conceptual space, students will complete activities designed to help them better observe both the novel and themselves, specifically how their own experience relates to the...