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Lesson 1 (from Prologue - 12)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the author’s background and personal interest in the subject matter reflected in the memoir. Carmen Maria Machado is a writer based in Philadelphia. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
Lesson
Class Discussion: Who is the author of In the Dream House? When was the book published? What was the book's intended audience? How was the book received by the...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 11-12.1, 11-12.2
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