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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-12)
Objective
Students will investigate Moriarty’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of The Husband's Secret and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Moriarty includes prior to the body of The Husband’s Secret is Alexander Pope’s famous maxim, "To err is human; to forgive, divine,” thereby introducing many of the text’s major themes such as guilt, responsibility, sin, and redemption. Students will study Moriarty’s use of an epigraph to open the text and will see how doing so can illuminate the text's meaning, even if they have only just begun to read the work in question.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why might an author begin a book or a chapter with a quote from a different literary work? What other books or movies do you know of that start out with...
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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