To the Lighthouse

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/to-the-lighthouse

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote To the Lighthouse?Virginia Woolf
2. What is the publication date?May 5, 1927
3. What is the genre?Modernist novel
4. What is "To the Lighthouse" about?It is a novel by Virginia Woolf that follows the Ramsay family and their guests at a Scottish estate, exploring their thoughts and feelings over time.
5. Why does the book have three parts?The parts show different times: a single day, a decade, and later years, to show how memory and time change people.

Stream of Consciousness: A narrative technique that attempts to depict the actual flow of a character's thoughts and feelings.
Modernism: An early 20th-century movement in art, literature, and architecture that rejected traditional forms and embraced innovation.
Subjectivity: The quality of existing in someone's mind rather than in the external world; personal perspective.
Epistemology: The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.