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Lesson 1 (from Chapter One)
Objective
Students will investigate Offill’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of Weather: A Novel and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Offill chooses for Weather: A Novel is taken from the transcript of a town meeting in Connecticut in the late seventeenth century. The minutes from the meeting make it clear that the townspeople voted the land in the area into their own hands by twisting Biblical scripture to suit their own purposes. Offill’s choice of epigraph thereby introduces many of the text’s major themes such as hypocrisy, environmental exploitation, and collectivism. Students will study the author'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
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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