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Grade 9 English Honors Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
Grade 9 English Honors Mind Map
Short Stories Unit
Imagery in Fiction
A Christmas Memory
Learn how to identify different types of imagery within a story as well as how the author uses those pieces of imagery to build their story. This includes, characterization, creating a specific mood in the story, establishing a setting, conveying a theme, etc.
Types of Imagery (Appeal to the Senses)
Tactile Imagery: Touch
Auditory Imagery: Hearing
Gustatory Imagery: Taste
Olfactory Imagery: Smell
Visual Imagery: Sight
The Most Dangerous Game
Discuss the events of the story together as a class during a Socratic Seminar
After reading through this short story, utilize all the writing skills learned throughout this unit (Types of Irony, Imagery) to write your own short story that builds off or is related to The Most Dangerous Game.
3 Types of Irony
Dramatic Irony: The reader understands more about the events of a story than a character
Situational Irony: When what happens is the opposite of what is expected
Verbal Irony: Character Says one thing but means the opposite
Social Issues
TQE (Thoughts, Questions, Epiphanies)
Author-based Questioning (Why did the author have this character act like this?)
Learned how to view writing as an extension of the author while also learning how to best generate questions and reach realizations as I read.
To Kill a Mocking Bird
An anchor text used to bring us into our Social Issues Unit. Teaches us to better analysis symbols and themes found within text.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Single Story
A Lesson Before Dying and Independent Reading Book (All American Boys)
Create a Video Essay to explain whether or not these two pieces of writing function as single story and by extension, whether or not they are able to build empathy within their readers
An oversimplstic and often false perception people tend to create about certain individuals, groups or countries.
Creates Stereotypes
Conflict and Theme
A conflict is a struggle that occurs between two forces that are in opposition. We would go on to analysis the conflict found in A Lesson Before Dying in order to understand this concept. Types of Conflict include Person vs Self, which is an Internal Conflict. Person vs Nature, Person vs Society, Person vs Person, Person vs Technology, and Person vs Fate meanwhile are all external conflicts.
The theme in a story is an idea, lesson, or some other kind of message that an author tries to convey to it's reader. This can often take the form of a character learning something from an experience or being changed in some way.
The two tend to go hand-in-hand, which is why we would take a look at multiple excerpts in order to determine the conflict as well as the excerpt's theme.
Persective