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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-7)
Objective
Students will investigate Chabon’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of Wonder Boys and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Michael Chabon includes in the novel Wonder Boys is a quote from the writer Joseph Conrad, who said, “Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim til I sank--but that’s not the same thing” (2). With Chabon’s choice of epigraph, he previews for the reader many of the text’s major themes, such as fate, determinism, death, and matters of perspective. Students will study Chabon’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.
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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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