Reading a Novel
| Standards: NDE Reading Standards | Objectives: |
| 8.1.4 Analyze Fiction--Students will identify and apply knowledge of the structure, elements, and literary techniques to analyze fiction. | Identify structure (beginning, middle, and end). |
| Identify and analyze the elements (characters, setting, plot, conflict, and point of view.) | |
| Identify the literary techniques (foreshadowing, simile, metaphor, personification, idioms, oxymorons, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole) | |
| Describe how charater traits determine resolution of the conflict. | |
| Identify directly stated themes in literature. | |
8.1.7 Analyze Literary Works--Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze literary works, nonfiction, films, or media. |
Analyze how a literary work reflects the author's personal history, attitudes, and/or beliefs. |
| Analyze how a work can be shown to reflect the period, ideas, customs, and outlooks of a people living in a particular time in history. |