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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-5)
Objective
Students will investigate Kristin Hannah’s purpose for using an epigraph to begin the narrative of Magic Hour and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Hannah includes is a famous quote about being “real” from the children’s book The Velveteen Rabbit, thereby introducing many of the text’s major themes such as identity, acceptance, and the consequences of neglect. Students will study the use of an epigraph to open the text and will see how doing so can illuminate the text's meaning, even if they have only just begun to read the work in question.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why might an author begin a book or a chapter with a quote from a different literary work? What other books or movies do you know of that start out with quotes from a different book or...
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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