ela · Grade 12
College Prep ELA: Modernist Narrative Structure & Stream of Consciousness
Analyze modernist stream-of-consciousness techniques, psychological interiority, and non-linear narrative temporality in post-WWI literature.
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Learning goals
- Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact
- Evaluate stream of consciousness and free indirect discourse as innovations in capturing subjective psychological interiority
- Synthesize critical lenses (psychoanalytic, historical modernist) to formulate sophisticated, defensible literary theses
Before you begin
Distinguish narrator, character viewpoint and the time of an event.
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Practice previewCollege Prep ELA: Modernist Narrative Structure & Stream of Consciousness
Practice · Independent · 15 min
Analyze modernist stream-of-consciousness techniques, psychological interiority, and non-linear narrative temporality in post-WWI literature.
Teaching and response guide
- Model the target skill: analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. Use the first task as a guided example before asking for an independent response.
- Check readiness first: Distinguish narrator, character viewpoint and the time of an event.
- Discuss an incorrect response using this distinction: A shift into memory changes narrative time without necessarily changing the setting of the present action.
Watch for: A shift into memory changes narrative time without necessarily changing the setting of the present action.
Check the answer criteria for each task. A supported explanation may have more than one acceptable response. These activities offer evidence to discuss; completing a sheet alone does not establish mastery.