TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources
110.34.b.5
(5) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
- (A) analyze how complex plot structures (e.g., subplots) and devices (e.g., foreshadowing, flashbacks, suspense) function and advance the action in a work of fiction;
- (B) analyze the moral dilemmas and quandaries presented in works of fiction as revealed by the underlying motivations and behaviors of the characters;
- (C) compare and contrast the effects of different forms of narration across various genres of fiction; and
- (D) demonstrate familiarity with works of fiction by British authors from each major literary period.
Aligned Resources
Teaching Guides
- Teaching A Streetcar Named Desire: The Sound Track of Our Lives
- Teaching Life of Pi: From Text to Pictures and Back Again
- Teaching Life of Pi: Book vs. Movie
- Teaching The Story of an Hour: One Hour Literary Analysis
- Teaching The Catcher in the Rye: Judging a Book by Its Cover
- Teaching Antigone: Motif Slideshow
- Teaching Lord of the Flies: Write a Song
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: "19th Nervous Breakdown": Music, Poetry, or Fiction Inspired by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Teaching A Separate Peace: Blitzball for All
- Teaching A Rose for Emily: Dramatizing "A Rose for Emily"
- Teaching Antigone: On the Hunt for Civil Disobedience
- Teaching Life of Pi: Cast Away
- Teaching Slaughterhouse-Five: The Art of the Epigram
- Teaching Night: Survivors Unite
- Teaching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Law and Order in the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Teaching The Story of an Hour: One Hour Fiction
- Teaching A Separate Peace: Lost in Translation? (Mapping a Community)
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching Lord of the Flies: What's Your Cover Story?
- Teaching Heart of Darkness: (come on shake your body, baby) Map the Congo
- Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird: Sketch It: Making a Maycomb Map
- Teaching Wuthering Heights: Remix Time on the Moors
- Teaching A Rose for Emily: Comparing Song to Text
- Teaching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Book vs. Movie