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Lesson 1 (from Part I, pages 1 - 51)
Objective
This lesson introduces students to Louise Erdrich’s dystopian 2017 novel Future Home of the Living God. In this lesson, students will research the author, read the first few pages of the text, and analyze and discuss the narrative style of the work. Future Home of the Living God centers on narrator and protagonist Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a 26-year-old pregnant Minneapolis woman of Ojibwe heritage and with liberal, white, vegan adoptive parents.
Lesson
Group Activity: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read the first five pages of Part I of Future Home of the Living God. Discuss with your group members the information that the author establishes in these chapters. Create a list of events that take place in the reading and examine how these events connect to one another.
Class Discussion: As a class, define and discuss the following terms: narrative point...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.10, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.8, 11-12.1, 11-12.8
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