Lesson 1 (from Front Matter and Chapters 1 and 2)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to understand a genre to which Mad Honey belongs—suspense. How and where a novel fits influences how it is understood by its readers, as well as what readers it is likely to reach; readers interested in suspense might pick it up, while those who scorn such works might never read Mad Honey.
Lesson
Class Discussion: When you go to a bookstore, online or in person, how are the books separated from one another and grouped together? What categories are present? How does a person know which book belongs in what group—or even what the groups are? Where might you find Mad Honey? Why?
Group Activity: Looking as a class at Olivia 1, what features of the text—diction, sentence length, content, figurative language, etc.—seem indicated as appropriate for suspense? Guide discussion to identify such features, noting student responses...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 11-12.1, 11-12.2
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