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Critical Lenses Reading Stations Literary Analysis Activity for Fiction Texts

Rated 4.8 out of 5, based on 17 reviews
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th
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Pages
26 pages
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We loved this activity!! My students even wore different colored glasses while rotating through stations with the various lenses. All of the information is accurate and relevant for high school students. Thank you!
This made teaching critical lenses SO much easier. Students used these organizers throughout our contemporary book club unit. Love that is also editable!
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Description

This fun critical lenses reading stations activity "progressive dinner" can be used to analyze any fiction text through 6 different literary lenses, including short stories, novels, and poetry! Students are asked to apply up to 6 critical lenses to a fiction text in a hands-on and interactive way!

Choose from 6 different critical lens menus, including Reader Response, Feminist, New Historicism, Formalist, Psychoanalytic, and Marxist. Choose the menus that work best with the text you're studying (or customize your own) and set up 2, 3, 4, or 6 different station rotations.

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Here’s what you’ll receive in this resource:

  • Directions and Pacing Slideshow, Google Slides & PowerPoint Versions (one for use with paper plate handouts and one for use with actual paper plates). (5 Slides x Two Versions) so that you're able to give students clear expectations for this activity and keep pace along the way. Feel free to swap out timers for your own classroom use.
  • Pre-Made Critical Lens Menus (6 Pages) + All-in-One Critical Lenses Handout (1 Page). These are NOT editable.
  • Editable Critical Lens Menu Template (1 Google Slide) so that you can customize or add-in another critical lens of your choosing.
  • Dinner Plate Handouts (4 Pages) so that you don't have to purchase/use paper plates. Handouts accommodate space for student notes focused on reading a text through 2, 3, 4, or 6 different lenses.
  • Product Links & Teacher Notes (4 Pages) so that you have instructions and tips for using this assignment with students at your fingertips.

Teachers will need to provide the text(s), actual paper plates if desired, and set-up for the progressive dinner.

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This resource is helpful for:

★ Teachers who want maximum engagement in a student-led classroom.

★ Teachers who are looking to save time with ready-made resources.

★ Teachers who love to innovate and try new things!

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Total Pages
26 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
Lifelong tool
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

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