Prairie River Academy

English Language Arts

Grade 12Unit 1Lesson 1

Reading literary history

Use Period Labels Carefully

Today: Treat literary periods as interpretive tools rather than rigid boxes.

A

Begin

Warm-up

  1. 1.Name one possible heroic convention.

  2. 2.What complicates it?

B

Learn

Use Period Labels Carefully

A period label summarizes tendencies across texts and history. Individual works may participate in, revise, or resist those tendencies.

Define the convention, identify textual evidence, note divergence, and use qualified language such as participates in or complicates.

Study the model

The passage uses a convention but alters its expected ending.

C

Read

Original PRA passage

The knight returned without a trophy and asked the gatekeeper to record the names of those who had fed him on the road.
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Use Period Labels Carefully

Grade 12Practice and apply
D

Practice

Read, think, and respond

  1. 1.What convention appears? ELA-12-01-01-Q1

  2. 2.How is success redefined? ELA-12-01-01-Q2

  3. 3.Why avoid saying 'all medieval writing'? ELA-12-01-01-Q3

  4. 4.Write a qualified historical claim. ELA-12-01-01-Q4

E

Apply

Use the lesson

Write a paragraph using participates in, revises, or resists accurately.

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