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Lesson 1 (from Part One: Front Matter and Chapter I)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to understand a genre to which the novel belongs—autobiographical fiction. How and where a novel fits influences how it is understood by its readers, as well as what readers it is likely to reach.
Lesson
Class Discussion: When you go to a bookstore, online or in person, how are the books separated from one another and grouped together? What categories are present? How does a person know which book belongs in what group—or even what the groups are?
Group Activity: Looking as a class at the first section, “Overture: To America,” what features of the text—diction, sentence length, content, figurative language, etc.—seem indicated as appropriate for autobiographical fiction? Guide discussion to identify such features, noting student responses; ask for explanations of how the features manifest in the text.
Individual Activity: Have students write briefly on how...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.4, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.4
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