California ELA Content Standard Literary Response and Analysis Grades 9-10
Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level Text 3.7 Recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism, and explain their appeal.
NETS-S Standard
1. Creativity and Innovation Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
Learning Goal and Activity
Students will interpret literary devices in selected passages of Elie Wiesel's Night, collaboratively creating an original Pixton comic strip that illustrates their interpretation of the devices used.
This activity, titled Night Comic Strip allows students to demonstrate their complex understanding and analysis of Elie Wiesel's literary devices by creating a visual interpretation of selected passages (labeled in the current ELA standard as "explaining their appeal," and in the Common Core standard as "analyzing the cumulative impact" of word choice).
Students also demonstrate their technological competency in Creativity and Innovation as they "create original works" through the Pixton comic strip, and "apply existing knowledge" of literary impact into a new setting - technology tools outside the print book.
Common Core State Standard Reading Standards for Literature Grades 9-10
Craft and Structure 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the languuage evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
