If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will write and create in various genres of their choosing, including visual art. They will also examine and then model specific elements from Abe's writing.
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Students will explore and understand Abe's stories through the many lenses through which they may be interpreted, including the genres of allegory, myth, satire, surrealism, absurdism, and avant garde, as well as the disciplines of philosophy, spirituality, and literary criticism and analysis.
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Students will examine sociopolitical circumstances in postwar Japan, and analyze the...
