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8e430fe-Dbea-ea47-32d1-Ca48c6dd53-Strategies To Make Your Writing Shine

The document outlines learning targets focused on understanding the biographical and historical context of literary texts, emphasizing the analysis of maxims and philosophies. It introduces the biographical approach, which examines the writer's life and experiences to interpret their work, and the historical approach, which considers the societal and temporal context of the text. Additionally, it poses questions to guide the exploration of both approaches in literary analysis.

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8e430fe-Dbea-ea47-32d1-Ca48c6dd53-Strategies To Make Your Writing Shine

The document outlines learning targets focused on understanding the biographical and historical context of literary texts, emphasizing the analysis of maxims and philosophies. It introduces the biographical approach, which examines the writer's life and experiences to interpret their work, and the historical approach, which considers the societal and temporal context of the text. Additionally, it poses questions to guide the exploration of both approaches in literary analysis.

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LEARNING
TARGETS
• Recognize the biographical and historical context of
a text.
• Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and
philosophies presented in the literary text as a
means of valuing other people and their various
circumstances.
“If I were a writer,
I ...”
ROMANTIC STORY
RICH OR SIMPLE?
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT OR LOVE AFTER A
LONG TIME?
WOULD YOU GIVE A SECOND CHANCE?
HAPPY OR TRAGIC ENDING?
HORROR STORY
ZOMBIE OR GHOST?
SURVIVAL OR REVENGE?
SIDE STORY: FAMILY OR
LOVE?
HAPPY OR TRAGIC
ENDING?
What are the factors
that we consider in
choosing themes,
characters and details
for our story?
LESSON 3

BIOGRAPHICAL
APPROACH
what is
BIOGRAPHICAL
APPROACH?
what is
BIOGRAPHICAL
APPROACH?

• reading approach wherein the


beliefs, experiences, education,
and culture of the writer are
studied to give meaning to his or
her work.
what is
BIOGRAPHICAL
APPROACH?
• presumes that literary text can be
based on the writer’s perspective
and can reflect writer’s biases and
life experiences.
questions to consider in
determining the
biographical context:
• 1. How is the story relevant to the writer’s personal life?
• 2. Are the writer’s belief evident in the text?
• 3. Are there similar situations or characters in the writer’ s
life?
• 4. What concerns in the text reflect the writer’s experience?
• 5. Do other works of the writer manifest hos or her beliefs
consistently?
• writer
• journalist

WHO IS • translator of Greek


and Irish decent

LAFCADIO
HEARN? • lived in Dublin
• studied for a time in
• P. Darby de Thiersant, France
French consul in China • at 19, moved to Cincinnati
• famous for his writing • New Orleans (“Some
about literature and life in Chinese Ghosts in 1887”)
Japan. • French West Indies
• had fascination for the • Japan
Japanese and became a
citizen himself
LESSON 3

HISTORICAL
APPROACH
what is
HISTORICAL
APPROACH?
what is
HISTORICAL
APPROACH?
• reading how the text reflects the
society and time it portrays or in
which it was written.
• gives the reader a wider
understanding of events in the
story
questions to consider in
determining the historical
context:
• 1. When and where was the text written?
• 2. How does the text reflect or depict the period it was set or
written?
• 3. How did historical events influence the writer?
• 4. How might the readers today interpret or analyze the text
compared to how it was seen during its time?

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