Close Reading & Literary Analysis — Chapter overview · English 10: Choices, Conscience & Consequences, Grade 10
Use the grade’s short story to explain how a change in a character or narrator develops a larger idea. Analyze two details from different parts and one craft choice.
Chapter question
How can close reading & literary analysis help us examine choices, conscience & consequences?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 1.1 · Theme & Central Ideas
I can trace how one or more themes emerge, develop, and interact across a complex text.
- Unit 1.2 · Characterization & Structure
I can analyze how a complex character's conflicting motivations and changes over a text drive the plot or develop a theme.
- Unit 1.3 · Author's Craft & Figurative Language
I can determine the connotative, figurative, and symbolic meanings of words and phrases in a text.
- Unit 1.4 · Comparative Analysis
I can analyze how two texts treat a similar theme or subject, comparing the authors' choices.