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Lesson 1 (from Part One)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to understand a genre to which the book belongs—young adult literature. How and where a novel fits influences how it is understood by its readers, as well as what readers it is likely to reach.
Lesson
Class Discussion: When you go to a bookstore, online or in person, how are the books separated from one another and grouped together? What categories are present? How does a person know which book belongs in what group—or even what the groups are?
Group Activity: Looking as a class at the foreword, what features of the text—diction, sentence length, content, figurative language, etc.—seem indicated as appropriate for young adult readership? Guide discussion to identify such features, noting student responses; ask for explanations of how the features manifest in the text.
Individual Activity: Have students write briefly on how the first...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 11-12.1, 11-12.2
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