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 explore the role that criticism plays, for better or worse, in the outward expression of an artistic piece.
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Students will discuss notions of reality and delusion, and how our cognitive biases frame the world around us.
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Students will examine the theme of exile and how Nabokov explores it throughout his body of work.
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Students will discuss how much power the author truly has when releasing a work into the world.