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Lesson 1 (from Prologue and One)
Objective
Students will investigate a playwright's purpose in using quotes from other literary works to begin chapters or entire works.
The three quotes within the Epigraph section of Martyna Majok’s play Cost of Living resonate with many different themes present within the coming narrative. Two included epigraphs come from two different short stories by the same author, Andre Dubus. One of these, from Andre Dubus’s story “Dancing After Hours” describes the altruistic act of returning one’s shopping cart to the front of the store, rather than adding it to the already-cumbersome burden of the cart collector, as an act of “joining the world” (vii). Similarly, the other Andre Dubus quote has a beauty of its own, a depth that invites analysis, and a set of universal themes that can be connected to famous canonical works. The last epigraph shifts in tone to a somewhat...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 11-12.7
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