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Lesson 1 (from Section 1: "After and Before" through "Saturday," Chapter Five)
Objective
In this Daily Lesson, students will examine the purpose of mystery as a genre.
Good Girl, Bad Blood is a clear example of the mystery genre; students will intuit this from its title and cover alone. But what they may not immediately understand is that mystery as a genre serves a purpose beyond entertainment. This lesson acquaints students with what the genre does well and asks them to apply their understanding to a brief mystery and then to predict how this understanding will apply to Jackson's novel itself.
Lesson
Reading Activity: Distribute copies of Joslyn Chase's blog post "4 Unexpected Benefits from reading thrillers" (available online). Give students time to read.
Small Group Activity: Divide the class into groups of three. Ask the groups to assign one of the following categories to each group member:
• Intellectual Stimulation: puzzles, clues, and answers
• Catharsis: tension, suspense, conflict, and resolution...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.2, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.2, 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
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