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Lesson 1 (from New School - Ruined Weekend)
Objective
Students will investigate an author's purpose in using epigraphs: quotes from other literary works included before chapters or before entire works.
Jewell Parker Rhodes begins her novel Towers Falling with an excerpt of Woody Guthrie's song This Land is Your Land. In so doing, Jewell Parker Rhodes is from the outset reflecting complex notions of national identity, one of the novel's main themes. Students will use allusion research to illuminate the epigraph's meaning as they move through the novel and reflect back upon the epigraph chosen by the author.
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 quotes from a different book or movie? What impacts do those quotes in the examples you can think of have on the reader...
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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