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Lesson 1 (from Part One, Chapter 1: Falcons)
Objective
Students will investigate Mantel’s purpose in using an epigraph to begin the narrative of Bring Up the Bodies and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Mantel includes within the novel Bring up the Bodies reads, "Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?” and the quote is attributed to King Henry VIII as he spoke to “Eustache Chapuys, the Imperial Ambassador” (xi). The epigraph thereby introduces many of the text’s major themes, such as irony, power, class differences, and collectivism. Students will study the writer’s use of an epigraph to open the text and will see how doing so can illuminate the text's meaning, even if they have only just begun to read the work in question.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why might a writer begin a book...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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