** PLEASE, Have your homework out on your desk

and ready for me to stamp! **

Today, you need…

● unit packets
● writing utensil
● highlighter (optional)
Turn and Talk
Talk about how you analyzed The Giving Tree
last night. What discoveries did you make in
your analysis?

I’ll be around to stamp your homework.

If you’re behind, just keep in mind that I’m

collecting these on Thursday.
Eco-Criticism

An Introduction
Ecocriticism
• Determines role of nature
• Analyzes embedded environmental values
• ∴ meaning comes from the role nature
plays in the text

CC Calibas
How can you apply this theory?
Try asking questions like…
1. How do the characters perceive nature?
2. How does society perceive nature?
3. How does nature influence the narrative?
a. How is nature influenced by the narrative?
Application to Maleficent
1. How do King Stephan’s and Maleficent’s
perceptions of nature differ?
2. How do the humans perceive nature? Why
do think this is?
3. How does nature impact the course of the
story?
Gender Studies

An Introduction
Let’s try something…
Consider the following words:
fashion, football, breadwinner, pilot, strength, flower,
ambitious, perseverance, compassionate, bossy, helpless,
thoughtful, soft, brassy, dangerous, perpetrator, victim,
attractive, opinionated, hostile, emotional

Using your first instinct, sort each of the words

into one of these four categories:
Male, Female, Both, Neither
Gender Studies
● Examines patterns of thought,
behavior, values, power, and
interactions
● People construct their own
gender identities but are
influenced by societal values
o Society operates under
established roles and norms
for different genders
● ∴ meaning comes from the
role gender plays and why
The Snapper
that’s important
How can you apply this theory?
Try asking questions like…
1. What gender roles are in the story?
2. How do people of different genders relate
to each other?
3. How do people of different genders
perceive themselves?
a. How do they perceive each other?
Application to Maleficent
1. How are the different roles that Maleficent
and Aurora play significant?
2. How closely do the characters in the film
adhere to our society’s gender roles?
3. How closely do characters follow the gender
roles of the Middle Ages?
Homework
1. Read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree.
2. Analyze the text using what you’ve learned
about Critical Race Theory, Ecocriticism,
and Gender Studies and our class models
that analyze Maleficent.

This is A LOT to do in one night.  Do what you

can and I’ll stamp what you bring in. Your analysis
packet is due Thursday, at the beginning of class.