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Personal Essay
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My Odd Shelf
Anne Fadiman's "My Odd Shelf," from Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
4. What goes on in our inner worlds?
Essential Question
What goes on in our inner worlds?
Learning Targets
- Students can analyze the use of voice in an essay, reading closely for tropes, diction, imagery, and allusions. Students can evoke voice and an inner world in personal essays.
- Students can define, identify, and explain allegory, epic simile, poetic justice
- Students can explain humanism, objectivity, subjectivity, and the classical, medieval, and early modern (Renaissance) mindsets. Students can use these concepts to contrast texts by Dante and Petrarch.