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Catch-22: What It Means to Be a(n Anti)Hero

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Catch-22, Joseph Heller's send-up of military organizational bureaucracy, provides readers with an opportunity to consider the importance of the anti-hero. Class members fill out a worksheet comparing and contrasting the qualities of heroes and anti-heroes found in Yossarian.

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CCSS: Designed
Instructional Ideas
  • Ask class members to use their worksheets as the basis of a compare/contrast essay
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires a class set of the novel
  • Provides a PDF of the "Compare and Contrast Antiheroes" worksheet
  • Readers should be familiar with the antihero concept (think Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye)
  • Presumes that class members have finished reading the novel
Pros
  • Includes a detailed lesson plan and links to other resources in the series
Cons
  • None