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The multi-genre unit is designed as a foundational unit, reviewing and studying the reading analysis, literary terms, and writing fundamentals that students will use and develop throughout the course.

Essential Questions:
• What are the basic elements of literature? • What is genre? How is each genre different? • What is identity? How does a work connect with my own identity? • How does one study and learn new vocabulary? • What devices do authors use to create stories, conflicts and characters? • What do I need to know in order to better analyze a text? • What is conveyed through character action, description or dialogue? • Why do characters make the choices that they do?

Students will know . ..
• Literary Devices • Differences between genres (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) • Diction, syntax and imagery • Elements of a complete sentence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Characterization (action, description, dialogue) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Tone and Mood <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Theme and Motif <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• SIFT <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Allusion <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Greek Roots

Readings and Topics:

 * //The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas// page