Read the Preface, plus Chapters 1-5.
Common Core Objectives
- 1
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
- 2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of...
