Subject Area: English Language Arts and Reading Grade Level: 10th Course Name: English II TEKS: 110.32. (5) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: (C) evaluate the connection between forms of narration and tone in works of fiction Students will have completed a unit on 19th Century American authors and their ideas as represented in a number of short stories, including: "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe, "The Artist of the Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "Bartleby, the Shrivener" by Herman Melville, and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" by Ambrose Bierce. The unit will have focused on identifying forms of narration and tone common to 19th Century American authors, including those native to the American Realism, romanticism, Dark-romanticism, and Transcendentalist movements. At the end of the unit, students should be able to evaluate the use of the point of view, narrator, and tone, from a given work, in reference to views and opinions of the author, as well as in reference to significant historical events of the 19th century. Essay 1. Compare and contrast the unreliable narrators in "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe, and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving, citing at least 3 examples from each work.
2. Identify and justify how three qualities of the shifting point of view in relate to the overall tone in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek," by Ambrose Bierce. Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluation 3. Identify and explain three characteristics of the narrator in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Shrivener" in relation to the shift in tone throughout the short story. Bloom's Taxonomy: Synthesis 4. Citing at least 2 specific examples from the story, analyze how the narrator in "The Artist of the Beautiful" has a limited, and often hesitant, point of view. 5. Identify and illustrate at least 2 examples of the difference between first person and peripheral narration, as evidenced in "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe, and "Bartleby, the Shrivener," by Herman Melville. Multiple Choice 1. The narrator in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is unreliable because: a. he is coming off opium b. he ultimately loses his sanity c. he has not seen Roderick in years d. all of the above 2. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" is to third person narration, as "Bartleby, the Shrivener" is to:
a. second person narration b. unreliable narration c. omniscient narration d. first person narration 3. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving, the narrator's attitude toward Ichabod can best be described as: a. jovial b. critical c. objective d. fearful 4. The tone created by the hesitancy of the narrator in "The Artist of the Beautiful," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, can best be described as: a. somber b. regretful c. optimistic d. pensive 5. The tone of a literary work is the narrator's: a. attitude b. mood c. point of view
d. none of the above True/False 1. As the point of view shifts in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek," by Ambrose Bierce, the tone of the story also shifts. 2. Ichabod Crane is the narrator in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." 3. While the point of view stays the same, the tone in "Bartleby, the Shrivener," by Herman Melville, moves between confusion and sadness. 4. The third person narrator in "The Artist of the Beautiful," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, has a limited point of view. 5. The narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" slowly loses his sanity, changing the tone of the story over time. Fill-in the Blank 1. The narrator in Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" shifts from third person to.
2. The most common type of narrator in dark romantic literature is. 3. The whimsical tone in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is created by the narrator's point of view. 4. Because "Bartleby, the Shrivener," by Herman Melville, is written in first person, the reader is able to see the narrator's direct involvement. 5. The unreliable narrator in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" represents the author's own apprehension toward the post-american Revolution.