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Lesson 1 (from Front Matter and Part One: The Bet)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to understand the presumed primary and secondary audiences of the book. Who is expected to read a given book, and who actually does read it, change how the text works.
Lesson
Class Discussion: In Technical Communication Strategies for Today and elsewhere, Richard Johnson-Sheehan discusses four levels of audience: primary, secondary, tertiary, and gatekeeper. He notes that competent and better writers tailor their writing to suit the primary audience (those who will use a text); others’ experiences suggest that writing with an eye towards secondary audiences (those who are interested in what the primary audience does) is also advisable. This means that clues will abound in the text as to who is the expected primary reader, and possible secondary readers can be inferred from that. Who are the expected primary readers of the present novel? Who are possible secondary readers? What...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.4, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.4
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