The Year of Magical Thinking Lesson Plan

Read Chapters 12-15.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   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.

2. 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).

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