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 become familiar with the development, characteristics, and significance of British modernism.
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Students will learn about Virginia Woolf's biography and its influence on the novel.
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Students will practice thinking and writing analytically about literature, using examples from the text and appropriate literary terminology to support arguments about the way a text functions.
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Students will think critically about the way gender is explored in the text and will become familiar with how sexuality was understood in the early 20th...