Existentialism and the Absurd: When No Authority Holds: Reading Unit 6, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Existentialism and the Absurd: When No Authority Holds is Unit 6 of Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life (Part 2) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 72 pages.

• Fate-vs-agency positions in tragic versus existentialist frameworks
• The four core existentialist/absurdist terms
• Authenticity versus bad faith as applied to protagonist behavior
• The protagonist’s changing relationship to a named authority across the novel
• The nihilism/absurdism distinction applied to a new text
• The novel’s ending as resolution or refusal-to-resolve of the individual-vs-authority tension
• Transfer of the four core terms to an unfamiliar narrative situation
• The individual-vs-authority question across Units 1, 5, and 6

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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