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Lesson 1 (from Chapters I and II)
Objective
Students will investigate Melchor’s purpose in using an epigraph section to begin the narrative of Hurricane Season and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph section Melchor includes prior to the beginning of the novel Hurricane Season includes two different quotes. One of the quotes is a stanza from W.B. Yeats’s famous poem “Easter, 1916” and at its center, it features the theme of transformation, a theme that will emerge within the coming novel in many different ways as the narrative unfolds. The other quote is taken from a novel entitled The Dead Girls, wherein the writer Jorge Ibarguengoitia warns the reader: “Some of the events described here are real. All of the characters are invented” (5). Students will study Melchor’s use of an epigraph to open the text and will see how doing so...
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.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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