XHSC 0910V Reading Fiction

Credits: .5

Focuses on strategies for understanding fiction. Develops understanding of meaning from context, plot elements, cause and effect, analysis of character, developing tone, use of figurative language, making inferences and interpreting themes.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Apply active reading strategies to works of fiction.
Summarize key elements of fiction.
Analyze key elements of fiction: character, theme, tone, figurative language.
Use critical reading skills to make inferences.
Explain analysis with supporting details from the text.

Content Outline

Reading Strategies
- Preview techniques
- Questioning strategies
- Inferences
Analyzing Short Fiction
- Determining plot elements, making inferences and interpreting theme
- Identifying cause and effect
- Comparing and contrasting fictional elements
- Analyzing character development and behavior based on context clues
- Analyzing figurative devices in multiple texts
- Explain analysis through short writing assignments
Analyzing a Short Novel
- Connect text to the world
- Analyze and summarize plot elements
- Analyze themes and connect to historical context
- Analyze character development and behavior based on context clues
- Analyze use of figurative language and how it enriches theme
- Explain analysis through Dialectical Journaling