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=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= A. Reading A2. Literary Texts Grades 9-Diploma: Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Stories Students read text, within a grade appropriate span of complexity, and present analyses of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry using excerpts from the text to defend their assertions. ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts

//What understandings are desired?//
•Themes in different short stories vary and are essential elements in the texts. •The Characters' thoughts and actions offer insight to the meaning of the texts overall. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * •Literary devices in the texts set the style and tone of the stories.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How do the characters' thoughts and actions offer insight into the meaning of the texts? •Why does the author use so many metaphors? Why are these images so central to the style, tone and meaning of his short stories? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How do elements such as tone, setting, imagery, style and plot impact the texts' overall meanings?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Critical Details: How to identify small details in the text and analyze their importance to the text as a whole. •Definitions: How to recognize common literary devices and provide definitions for them. || • determine the effects of common literary devices on the style and tone of a text. • make sense of imagery and tell how it relates to the text, both as a whole and within the passage. • answer essay questions using knowledge of the author's use of literary devices. • analyze examples of literary images and formulate theses about their significance. • consider the author's motives for using certain literary devices. • recognize the use of literary devices in other texts and realize their uses. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •Vocabulary: Imagery, Allegory, Metaphor, Irony, Paradox, Theme, Tone.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe