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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-4)
Objective
Students will conduct an exhaustive analysis of the first line of the novel and will use the information they uncover to make predictions about the text.
The first line of the novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a jaw-dropping one. The narrator states, “The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house” (1). An investigation of the novel's first line and of the famous lines of other novels will deepen students' understanding of the importance of a novel's first line.
Lesson
Class Discussion: What was your reaction when you read the first line of Tom Franklin's novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter? For reference, the line is “The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house” (1). What aspects of the first line...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1(c), 11-12.1(c)
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