Read “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt” and “The Portrait.”
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will...
