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Lesson 1 (from Chapter 1)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Bernardine Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other. Students will research the author, read the beginning of Chapter 1, and identify and discuss the narrative and language styles of the work. In this novel, Evaristo employs a nontraditional literary form with no periods or capitalization within her sentences and with deliberate line breaks that give the work a rhythm similar to free-verse poetry. This form carries through a number of different narrative perspectives following characters with diverse backgrounds, ages, beliefs, and experiences.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read the beginning of Chapter 1 (pages 1-23). Following the reading, discuss what has been established regarding the main character of the story and how the story is told. What is notable about the punctuation used by the author? How are sentences structured? How does the author use capitalization...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.7, 11-12.1, 11-12.7
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