This unit is designed to meet Language Arts and Reading Standards related to students abilities to read, analyze and write about a piece of literature. Examples of applicable standards include these taken from the State of Oregon Standards:

• Recognize how figurative language, e.g., colloquial expressions, idioms, metaphors, expresses implied meanings.
• Use information in illustrations, graphs, charts, diagrams, and tables to help understand a reading passage.
• Examine implicit relationships such as cause and effect, sequence-time relationships, comparisons, classifications, and generalizations
• Infer an author's unstated intention(s) or meaning by drawing conclusions from images, patterns, or symbols
• Make connections between the selection and the readerÕs experiences and background knowledge of other texts, movies, television programs, or music.
• Identify themes in literary works and provide support for interpretations
• Explain the ways in which a writer may have been influenced by life experiences or by historical, social, and cultural issues or events.
• Use multi-step writing process (e.g., identify audience and purpose, generate ideas, plan, draft, confer, revise, and publish) to express ideas.

Step 1:	Select an appropriate story, chapter, essay or other text for analysis.
Step 2:	Familiarize yourself with the text by reading some or all of it.
Step 3:	Collect examples of conflict from the text. For each provide the location in the text, a short description, a list of the participants, and an appropriate quote illustrating events or outcomes.
Step 4:	Consider, discuss, compare, consult and other wise examine your examples of conflict and those of other students.
Step 5:	Group your examples into categories. Compare your categories with those of others. Reconsider your examples and/or reorganize your categories as necessary.
Step 6:	Given your categories, reexamine your text for more examples of conflict. Reorganize your categories as necessary.
Step 7:	Write an essay about the nature of conflict using your examples and categories as supporting evidence.

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