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Lesson 1 (from Chapter One )
Objective
Students will learn to analyze tenses in Home Fire and the effect of different tense forms on the content of reading. Home Fire is a non-linear structure with many of the chapters looping in and out of a character’s consciousness. This structure may be difficult for students to read and understand at first. Working in class will give students the opportunity to understand the written structure in the first chapter and apply this awareness to the rest of the novel.
Lesson
Group Work: Pick out a paragraph or two of the first chapter and work through as a class where the paragraph is in the past, and where it is in the present. What tenses are being used? What effect does this have on reading the novel?
Group Discussion: What was your experience reading the passages as they came in and out of the past...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3(e), 11-12.3(e)
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