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Charles Cox

Grade 11

Catcher in the Rye Unit

Global Rationale

My overall goal is to move students from an initial response to a sophisticated one. To do so, I have created many assignments which require the students to manipulate their ideas and ideas from the text into various forms. This allows them to process the text more deeply and in a variety of different ways. I require students to use varied speaking, writing, critical thinking, collaboration, reflection, and visual representation skills to interact with the text more deeply.

Production is important to my teaching. Students will have a portfolio at the end with at least 22 pages of writing. This accomplishment will be something they can feel proud about.

Catcher in the Rye is a highly moving story about growing up and the loss of innocence. It is entertaining and poignant in its portrayals of some of life’s absurdities. The issues raised in the novel are relevant to adolescents and provoke the reader to question himself/herself. I will help my students to question the text in a sophisticated way and hopefully to recognize their own intricacies in the process.