OBE JOURNAL ACTIVITY 5: LOOKING THROUGH LENSES

Choose a short story, song, poem, or any short literary piece. Answer the following questions.

1. In two to three sentences, give the summary of the text.

2. What were some of the notable things you noticed about the text?

3. Which two lenses/literary criticism theories might be most useful to apply to this text?

4. Which lenses do you think might not be particularly useful? Why?

5. Try applying the two lenses you selected in # 3.

Literary Criticism Theory # 1:

When I/we viewed the text through the ______________________ lens, we looked at:

The lens helps us see the following things that we didn’t notice before:

Therefore, we see that this might be a text about:

Literary Criticism Theory # 2:

When I/we viewed the text through the ______________________ lens, we looked at:

The lens helps us see the following things that we didn’t notice before:

Therefore, we see that this might be a text about: