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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 - 2)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Jason Reynolds’s short story anthology Look Both Ways. Students will research the author, read “Water Booger Bears,” and identify and discuss the narrative and language styles of the work. The 10 stories that comprise Look Both Ways each focus on a different character living within the same 10 blocks from one another, with many attending the same middle school.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read “Water Booger Bears.” Following the reading, discuss what has been established regarding the main character(s) of the story and how the story is told. What is notable about the language style used? What information is relayed through dialogue?
Class Discussion: As a class, define and discuss the following terms: narrative point of view, omniscient versus limited narrators, reliable versus unreliable narrators, and narrative tense. Is the narrator of...
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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