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Lesson 1 (from Front Matter, The Night Driver, and Part One: The Proposal)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to understand a common component of narrative prose: exposition. Readers have to be oriented to the stories going on to be able to follow those stories; they have to understand the situation to be able to interpret characters. The more removed the action of such works as The Mighty Red is from expected readerly experience, the more exposition is necessary to ease readers’ understanding.
Lesson
Class Discussion: One of the things often noted in favor of reading prose, fiction or nonfiction, is that it can transport readers to times and places not their own. Any travel, real or imagined, means there will be things readers do not know about the setting and those within it—the more so the more removed from the readers that setting and those figures are. Bringing readers along so that they can understand what is...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 11-12.1, 11-12.2
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