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By completing this close reading activity, students will:
- Identify what the text states explicitly
- Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques
- Determine the functions of given details
- Describe tone in context
- Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
- Compare characters in the story
- Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, imagery, personification, symbolism, situational irony, dramatic irony, and more
- Consider themes in context
- Conduct research on the author’s life in order to draw autobiographical parallels
- Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
- Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
- Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
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