Prairie River Academy

English Language Arts

Grade 12Unit 1Lesson 3

Reading literary history

Relate Form to Historical Use

Today: Explain how a literary form serves a social or artistic function.

A

Begin

Warm-up

  1. 1.What repeats?

  2. 2.What form feature is this?

B

Learn

Relate Form to Historical Use

Forms develop within practices—oral performance, courtly exchange, public theater, periodical publication—but form still creates meaning on the page.

Identify formal features, name a plausible historical use, and analyze how the feature affects audience experience.

Study the model

Refrain supports memory and communal participation while also emphasizing an idea.

C

Read

Original PRA passage

At each stanza's end the travelers answer, 'Still the road remembers,' a line the group can speak together.
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Relate Form to Historical Use

Grade 12Practice and apply
D

Practice

Read, think, and respond

  1. 1.How could a refrain aid oral performance? ELA-12-01-03-Q1

  2. 2.What idea gains emphasis? ELA-12-01-03-Q2

  3. 3.What evidence supports communal use? ELA-12-01-03-Q3

  4. 4.Why is historical use not the whole interpretation? ELA-12-01-03-Q4

E

Apply

Use the lesson

Write a form–use–meaning paragraph about the refrain.

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