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Lesson 1 (from "Prologue: Winter Dances" - "Spirit Sickness")
Objective
The objective of this Daily Lesson is for students to analyze the author Sasha LaPointe's choices in opening the book with the words of others and then with a historical prologue. The lines her great-grandmother wrote and translated frame how the readers are to understand what is to come.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why did the author choose to begin with a historical prologue? What is the most important idea to take from the prologue? What did it make you think of? How did the prologue affect your reading of what followed? Reading the prologue, what do you take to be the book's purpose?
Small Group Activity: Divide the class into small groups. Each group should work together on a close reading of “From Aunt Susie’s Salmon Song” (unnumbered page, just prior to prologue). They should focus on its meaning, the author’s intentions in including...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
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