Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.02.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Objectives
  4. Context
  5. Preparation
  6. Presentation
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Appendices
  9. Endnotes

Living Texts: Analyzing S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders by Thinking, Reading, Acting, and Thinking Again

Cheree Marie Charmello

Published September 2013

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Objectives

Throughout this unit, students will be able to analyze (interpret) The Outsiders for the text's meaning, the author's style, the student's personal experience, and the greater cultural setting; use these ideas to plan an interpretive performance; synthesize (perform) the plan; and evaluate the relationship between how a reader mentally interprets a text and how the actor physically and orally interprets a text as a form of action by substantiating claims and actions with a text.

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December 9, 2015 at 5:14 pm

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Ingrid Hubik Freire

February 8, 2019 at 9:48 pm

Interested in receiving a file of resources on The Outsiders In your Living Texts area

Is there a cumulative exercise with this unit? How are the differing exercises graded?

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