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MODULE 3 LESSON 24
WHAT IS LOVE
Visually Represent Relationships
WELCOME
Draw a shape that represents the relationship between Pat, the narrator, and EPICAC.
When three people are involved in a romantic relationship, this is commonly referred to as a love triangle. Love triangles are a classic trope, or common literary device, in love stories.
Goal
LAUNCH
SWBAT consider how “EPICAC” takes the love triangle in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and does something new with it.
LEARN
LEARN
love can become complicated in many different ways, whether through complicated events, emotions or situations.
Identify the love triangles in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Examine the Love Triangle
What causes the love triangles in Act 3 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
What causes the love triangle in ‘EPICAC’?
Review paragraphs 11–51, and annotate for descriptions of the characters’ emotions, using a letter to indicate the name of the character that is feeling that emotion.
P for Pat
N for the narrator
E for EPICAC
Which character seems to be underrepresented in your annotations?
At what point in the story do you really want to know how EPICAC feels?
1. How do the emotions, or lack of emotions, in “EPICAC” develop your understanding of the love triangle?
CONT...
One difference between the play and the story is that in the play, all the characters get a chance to speak. In “EPICAC,” the narrator is the only one who has his perspective fully represented.
2. How does the lack of Pat or EPICAC’s perspective complicate love in ‘EPICAC’?
3. How is ‘EPICAC’ complicated in a way that is different from A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
CHALK TALK
Analyze the Love Triangle
Record evidence from the text for each of the three characters.
After all groups have had a chance to respond at each station, review responses.
Now pick up on investigative reporter trope.
Read the following sentence from the beginning of “EPICAC”: “My wife, the former Pat Kilgallen, and I worked with him on the night shift, from five in the afternoon until two in the morning. Pat wasn’t my wife then. Far from it” (paragraph 9).
- What information does the narrator present to the audience in this quote? What information does he leave out?
- How does the narrator’s ordering of information affect your understanding of the relationships in the story?
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What information does the narrator present to the audience in this quote? What information does he leave out?
How does the narrator’s ordering of information affect your understanding of the relationships in the story
note: the way you present information has an effect on the way your audience understands it.
Experiment with Sequencing an Argument
In groups, you will experiment with sequencing an argument(Handout 3B) in different ways, and discuss how different sequences produce different results.
Label the exemplar essay with CREE-A, then cut up the exemplar essay, and rearrange the essay, trying a new approach to the CREE-A sequence.
At the top of your chart paper, explain your reasoning for reordering the sequence in the way that they did.
Why do you think so many love stories have love triangles in them?
Research Love Triangles
Whenever we read a contemporary piece of literature it is always interesting—and illuminating—to understand more about what came before, and what sources that literature is drawing on and adapting into something new.
Choose one of the following love triangles to explore:
Cephalus, Procis, and Eos
Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and Ares
Orpheus, Eurydice, and Aristaeus
Oedipus, King Laius, and Jocasta
King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere
Research the love triangle you chose. Type a summary that tells about the triangle.
LAND
WRAP
Finish reading “EPICAC” from “I had stumped him at last” to “say nothing but good of the dead” (paragraphs 52–64) and annotate for lies told by the narratoRr.
Conduct additional research on the love triangle you chose, and write down a list of connections you can make between “EPICAC,” A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and your love triangle.
Practice for the Readers’ Theater TOMORROW!!!
Vocabulary Learning Goal: Use context clues to determine the meanings of bluff and spared and determine how these words provide insight into the point of view of the narrator in “EPICAC.”
There are two sides to every story.
DEEP DIVE
In EPICAC, find the word bluff at the top of page 4.
Using context clues, what do you think bluff means?
Look at the eleventh paragraph on page 4, and underline spare.
Using context clues, what do you think spare means?
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Do you think the words’ definitions fit with the context of the story?
Replace bluff with “trick him” and spared with “protected him from.” Stop and Jot how your understanding of the story would change with these replacements. Write your responses in the Vocabulary Journals .