Standards
3.3 Compare and contrast motivations and reactions of literary characters from different historical eras confronting similar situations or conflicts.
2.1 Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives:
a. Relate a clear, coherent incident, event, or situation by using
well-chosen details.
b. Reveal the significance of, or the writer's attitude about,
the subject.
c. Employ narrative and descriptive strategies (e.g., relevant
dialogue, specific action, physical description, background description,
comparison or contrast of characters).
2.2 Write responses to literature:
a. Exhibit careful reading and insight in their interpretations.
b. Connect the student's own responses to the writer's techniques
and to specific textual references.
c. Draw supported inferences about the effects of a literary work
on its audience.
d. Support judgments through references to the text, other works,
other authors, or to personal knowledge.