Think it... Write it... Speak it

As someone who is quite fond of applying critical lenses to texts and movies, I decided to create a text set to help students learn how to apply these lenses. I chose to focus on a feminist lens for this text set but others could be applied as well; reader response, for example, can be used with all literary works, but a critical race lens, and psychoanalytic lens, among others, may also be applied to some of these texts. Given the topic of the text set and themes of some of the texts, I imagine this would be most appropriate for a diverse 11th or 12th grade high school class. The main reading in this set is a novel by Khaled Hosseini calle d A Thousand Splendid Suns . I went back and forth quite a bit between this and Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa, but wanted a title with a male author to use in conjunction with various Wisconsin State Standards that ask students to question the author’s life and background and how it may influence the story or characters in the story. Both of these