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Lesson 1 (from Part One: Chapters 1-4)
Objective
Students will investigate Dick’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
Each of the four parts within Philip K. Dick’s novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said contains an epigraph taken from the song entitled “Flow, My Tears,” a famous piece composed by John Dowland in the seventeenth century. By examining the four lines contained within the epigraph to Part One, students will have a opportunities to discover information such as the song from which the epigraph comes, the composer of its lyrics, the era in which it was composed, and the era-specific symbolism of grief associated with its descending note scale. Even Dick’s revision of the punctuation present within the song’s title and his introduction of an...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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