TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources
110.33.b.2
(2) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
- (A) analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on the human condition;
- (B) relate the characters and text structures of mythic, traditional, and classical literature to 20th and 21st century American novels, plays, or films; and
- (C) relate the main ideas found in a literary work to primary source documents from its historical and cultural setting.
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