This sequence treats literary study as an opportunity to connect careful reading with making. Students first establish an interpretation from textual evidence, then confront how meaning changes when a work moves across audience, medium, form, or voice.
Read closely, adapt deliberately, reflect critically
Close reading establishes attention to language, form, imagery, pattern, and context. The adaptation project asks students to reimagine a work for a new medium or audience, making the consequences of their choices visible. An imitation portfolio then brings creative practice and literary analysis together: students experiment with formal decisions and explain how their work responds to what they have studied.
Three connected assignments
- Literary Analysis: Close Reading: Students build an interpretation from patterns in language, form, imagery, and context.
- Adaptation Project: Students reimagine a literary work for a new medium or audience and explain its rhetorical consequences.
- Creative and Critical Project: Imitation Portfolio: Students create an imitation portfolio and use critical reflection to explain their formal and rhetorical choices.
Interpretation is a form of decision-making
The sequence asks students to support interpretive claims with textual evidence, make deliberate choices about audience and form, and explain the stakes of those choices. Creative work is not treated as evidence of personal disclosure or as an escape from critical work; it becomes another way to understand how texts produce meaning.
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