Read "Talking in Bed," "The Large Cool Store," "A Study of Reading Habits," As Bad as a Mile," "Ambulances," "The Importance of Elsewhere," "Sunny Prestatyn," and "First Sight."
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
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
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
Note that it is perfectly...