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Lesson 1 (from Part I (pages 1 - 43))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to examine how Gay uses flashbacks in the story "I Will Follow You" to set the pace of the plot in a way that heightens the suspense of the narrator's backstory. The reader knows that something terrible has happened to the narrator, Savvie, and her sister Carolina, and the full scale and brutality of their abduction as young girls is revealed in flashback sections that Gay intersperses with present-day events.
Lesson
Group Discussion: What has happened to Savvie and Carolina that defines the rest of their lives? How old are they when this event occurs? What clues does Gay provide to readers that something of great magnitude has happened to the sisters before she reveals the actual event of their abduction?
Small Group Activity: Divide the class into small groups and ask students to create a timeline of...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.3, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
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