Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose Lesson Plan

Read "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2
   Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6
   Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

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