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Alice MunroBoys And Girls
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1964A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Activity
Use these activities to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.
ACTIVITY: “Smells Like (Pre)Teen Spirit”
“Boys and Girls” explores the intersections between growing up, seeing your parents in a new light, and learning your role in a new, if not always authentic, light. This story’s themes are relatable to children and adolescents all over the world. The themes connect us all, no matter how differently we were raised, and nowhere is this more apparent than in popular music. Let’s extend and deepen our engagement with these themes by looking at some examples of them being taken up in popular music.
(example)
THEME the gap between how we see ourselves and how we fear our parents see us
CONNECTION to “BOYS AND GIRLS” by Alice Munro The narrator, once her father’s close helper, makes a decision that leads to what she feels is her father’s dismissal of her.
SONG
"Young Dumb and Broke" by Khalid
*This song has a reference to drug use; omit or replace this song if it is inappropriate for your student demographic.
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