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Lesson 1 (from Prologue: "The Woman on Hester Street" and Part One: Chapters 1-6)
Objective
Students will analyze how Chloe Benjamin brings together elements within the exposition stage of The Immortalists to set up a complex world that will serve multiple functions as the novel progresses.
Plot development is an incredibly important and multifaceted element of any novel, and Chloe Benjamin's novel The Immortalists is no exception. In particular, the exposition stage of a novel about four different siblings who move through the narrative in a non-linear fashion must be effective in getting across to the reader an array of different characters, their personalities, their habits, their quirks, and any other information useful to setting up the world imagined by the author. In addition, an author's effective use of the exposition phase is crucial to setting up major themes of the work, in this case laying the framework for theme inclusions such as faith, family bonds, and fate. By analyzing the...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.4, 9-10.10, 11-12.3, 11-12.4, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.5, 11-12.5
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