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Lesson 1 (from Front Matter and Parts 1)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to understand a genre to which Two Degrees belongs—thriller. How and where a novel fits influences how it is understood by its readers, as well as what readers it is likely to reach.
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 Two Degrees? Why?
Group Activity: Looking as a class at the first chapter "Red Flag Warning," what features of the text—diction, sentence length, content, figurative language, etc.—seem indicated as appropriate for thriller? Guide discussion to identify such features, noting student responses; ask for explanations of how the features manifest in the text.
Individual Activity: Have...
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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