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Lesson 1 (from Pages 1-50)
Objective
Orphan Train is a historical novel by Christina Baker Kline. The novel centers on the unlikely friendship of two orphans—one, a 91-year-old woman and the other a 17-year-old girl still living within the foster care system. The Prologue, related in first-person, introduces the reader to the character of Vivian. The main storyline is related from a third-person omniscient narrator. Objectives for this lesson include defining the novel’s genre and analyzing and discussing the narrative style of the Prologue and the opening of the story.
Lesson
Class Activity: As a class, develop a list of the different genres students are familiar with in narrative literature. What makes historical fiction different than other genres? What “truthful” elements can be seen in the beginning of Orphan Train?
Group Assignment: Assign students to groups of 3-4 each. As a group, read the Prologue of the novel and the...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.10, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
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