ANTHEM

By the end of this unit, students will be able to: analyze the use of the first-person character narrator; analyze the diary format as a narrative technique; identify the characteristics of the dystopian novella; recognize plot components such as exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution; trace the development of various motifs found in the novella, including darkness and light, ignorance and knowledge, and transgression and damnation; trace the use and evolution of characters’ names and identities in the novella; distinguish between the two philosophical points of view central to this novella, collectivism and objectivism, and point to where and how each is presented; and analyze the novella’s title and its relationship to the novella’s theme. 64 pages. ©2008.