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Lesson 1 (from January 2011, Three Weeks Later (February 2011), One Month Later (March 2011), and Six Weeks Later (April 2011))
Objective
Students will meticulously analyze the many different elements of the cover art included alongside the narrative of Normal People in order to deepen their understanding of the connection between the work's themes and the cover art that has been chosen to underscore these themes.
Visual literacy is a very important skill to foster in today's multimodal world and the vivid artwork featured on the cover of Normal People provides an excellent opportunity to teach students skills in visual literacy. One edition of the novel features the faces of two line-drawn figures. One of the faces looks more feminine, while the other looks more masculine. In addition, the more feminine face takes up the top half of the book’s cover and the more masculine face takes up the lower half of the cover. The placement of these two faces introduces many different themes of the novel...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.2(b), 9-10.9, 11-12.2(b), 11-12.9
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