Night Sky with Exit Wounds Lesson Plan

Read "Torso of Air," "Prayer for the Newly Damned," "To My Father / To My Future Son," "Deto(nation)," and "Ode to Masturbation."

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.11-12.5
   Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

3. 3

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