Read Chapter 1.
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
Chapter 1
In Chapter 1, the narrator, who is a psychiatrist, is doing research at a prison. A doctor tells her about Firdaus, and the narrator is immediately obsessed. She feels Firdaus has an important story to tell, one that will be crucial to her research, even though she does not know...
