Learning Resources

Objectives: a. Identify the major themes in The Mats; b. Analyze themes in the short story and provide textual evidence to support them; c. Demonstrate critical thinking in analyzing themes and textual evidence; and d. Appreciate the importance of using textual evidences to support literary interpretation.

Objectives: a. Identify the characters, key events, and emotional states in The Mats; b. Analyze a character's emotions and provide textual evidence from the short story; c. Demonstrate empathy in interpreting characters' feelings and experiences in the story; and d. Appreciate the role of symbolism in understanding literature and interpretation.

Objectives: a. Identify the key events and important objects in The Mats; b. Retell the short story in correct chronological order and explain the symbolism of objects in the short story; c. Demonstrate attentiveness in retelling the short story and interpreting the symbolic meaning of objects; and d. Appreciate the role of symbolism in the mats.

Objectives: a. Identify key events in The Mats and understand their significance; b. Analyze the provided excerpts from the short story and cite appropriate textual evidence; c. Demonstrate critical thinking in analyzing excerpts in the short story; and d. Appreciate evidence-based interpretation in understanding literature.

Objective: a. Identify key characters to The Mats and words that are associated with them; b. Analyze and locate words linked to each character and provide textual evidence from the short story; c. Demonstrate attentiveness in completing the word search; and d. Appreciate characterization and evidence-based interpretation in The Mats.