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How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a text.

21st Century musical Hamilton could not have happened and have been so well received if not for today's advent of Pop and Rap on today's society.

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Teaching focused on effective teamwork and collaboration
Using the known features used by Lin-Manuel Miranda, as a group, create a small scene based on another chapter in American History (I would actually even encourage adapting their knowledge from Persepolis' context and create a "musical" about Iran in the 1970s.
Communication Skills
Social Skills
Thinking Skills (how to create raps?)
Concept: Transformation and Creativity

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To what extent do texts offer insight into another culture?

- By studying this graphic novel we get an insight into Satrapi's life and Iran in the 1970s.  We have to consider its autobiographical nature, Satrapi is also trying to express her own individual story as well.

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How does language represent social distinctions and identities?

This novel is amazing to explore the intricacies of speaking in a certain way to convey that you come from a specific social hierarchy or that the way you speak represents where you come from. It is through Elena and Lina's struggles to get out of their Napoli neighborhood that we can link language, its use and how it represents our identity.

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How do we approach texts from different times and cultures to our own?

For this question, I ask students to adapt A Doll's House to modern day society because I want to see what connections can they make and how they choose to interpret Nora, what does she do for a living in today's society? That imaginative process allows students to make better connections between 19th C Norway and today.

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Teaching based on inquiry
Research skills investigating Satrapi's life and Iran in the 1970s.
Concepts: Identity and Culture

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Teaching based on conceptual understanding
Reading and understanding Marxist theory, we will evaluate this novel as if we were Marxist literary theorists.
Does Elena Ferrante's novel talk about class struggle or does it focus on gender relationships?
Prepare a Socratic Seminar where this novel is discussed through a Marxist lens.
Approaches to Learning:
Research skills
Communication Skills
Social skills
Concepts: Culture and Perspective

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Teaching focused on effective teamwork and collaboration
Communication Skills
Social Skills
Thinking Skills
Concept: Transformation and Creativity