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Critical Reading and Context
Kind of Activity:
Classwide Discussion
Objective:
Students will be able to consider the impact that the reading of a critic has on the way they read an author's work
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1
Structure:
Ask students to write a brief reflection on a time that a critic—be it someone they knew or someone whose work they read—made them view a work of art differently. Did they see a movie they didn't understand at first, but liked when someone explained it to them? Did they learn that a beloved book from childhood made racist references that they hadn't understood before, making them see the...
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