#5 - Critical Theory UNIT - 10%

Alright, so here you are, the last unit of ENG4U before the culminating task - exciting.

This unit is made to challenge you, to challenge your thinking and to challenge your school skills. It's not worth a lot, but it will tell you a lot about what the work might be like at the next level of school. Let's work together on it, as I imagine you will need my help. Just do your best and keep an open mind.

Here is the Unit Plan.

Part 1.

To get things started, here is the def'n from the Penguin Dictionary for Criticism.

And here is the Introduction from the Norton Anthology - THIS HAS QUESTIONS TO ANSWER.

This slideshow should help to clarify some things.

And finally, here's the rubric I will use to mark your slideshow. Why don't YOU use it while building your slideshow?

Any questions?

Part 2.

Alright, one part done - now on to some articles to dig a little deeper.

For this part I'd like you to read some articles on various schools of critical theory. For two of these articles I'd like you to write a summary. 

Here's the rubric for the summaries.

And here are the articles:

"Is There a Text in this Class?" - Fish (post-modersnism/structuralism)
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" - Spivak (post-colonial)
"Epistemology of the Closet" - Sedgwick (queer theory)
From The German Ideology - Marx (marxism)
Shakespeare's Sister - Woolf (feminism)

Part 3. 

Great. So you're almost done - just one part left to go (and truly, the hard stuff is mainly done now).

For this last part I want you to try applying some of what you've learned about critical theory to a rather simple (perhaps familiar text).

Here's the story I want you to do this for. Seriously.

Here are some simplified summaries of schools of criticism you can use to help you with this.

And finally, here is a step-by-step guide explaining you how to do this.

Once you're done this you're ready to start your culminating! Great work, almost done now.