Apply three literary-theory lenses — reader-response, formalist, historical/cultural (intro level)
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~12 min
eng.g7.s.ex_30
Lens Application
Prompt
Apply all 3 lenses (reader-response / formalist / historical-cultural) to the same Cisneros passage. Generate one analytical observation per lens.
Answer criteria
type
rubric
rubric
3 lens-observations + each grounded in textual evidence + each distinct from the others = mastery
Hints
- Reader-response: what does the text do to a reader?
- Formalist: what do the craft moves do?
- Historical-cultural: what does context add?
Misconceptions to watch
- Three observations sound similar (no lens differentiation).
- Reader-response observation has no textual grounding.
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