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Developing Personal Awareness
5.5 explain how their study of literature has enhanced their understanding of themselves as readers and as individuals (e.g., explain in
a journal entry how one or more literary texts have influenced their own world view; explain in a letter to a friend how a text has helped them to cope with a difficult situation; describe a life lesson they have learned from a text; share their reflections about the experience of studying liter- ary texts with a group of younger students; in
a class discussion, explain how their reading in the course has influenced their appreciation of
a particular literary genre or historical period,
or a particular author’s work)
Teacher prompts: “Which texts most resonate with your own experiences?” “What kinds of texts do you consider yourself most skilled at interpreting?” “Which of the texts that you have read this year did you find most challenging? Why?”