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Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read from the preface to "The Foster Portfolio."

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1
    Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
    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.

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1
    Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using...

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