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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-6)
Objective
The students will better understand the writing style of the author.
The author writes in third person using past tense for both past events and current events with quotes in present tense. The first few chapters jump from a couple of the characters, so that the reader knows a great deal about them very quickly. The author also tells the different scenarios from the eyes of multiple characters, so the reader gets different perspectives of the same event. This use of third person narration gives the reader a great deal more information about the main characters than he or she would receive from first person.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Have the students answer the following questions: What are some details regarding the choices the author made regarding how she wrote this book? What tenses does she use? When and why does she use these tenses? From what...
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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