The Pearl eNotes Essential Lessons
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Grade 9
Grade 10
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Each of the following lessons is geared to a specific skill category and Common Core standard. It includes a step-by-step guide to teaching the lesson as well as handouts, assessments, modification, and enrichment activities. The lessons follow accompany the short story of The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
Table of Contents:
Lesson 1: Studying Diction and Mood in a Narrative Passage
Lesson 2: Imagery in descriptive writing
Lesson 3: Creating Suspense in Narration
Lesson 4: Characterization in Narrative Writing
Lesson 5: Writing a Paragraph of Exposition
Lesson 6: Dramatizing the Story
Lesson 7: Exploring Personal Values
Lesson 8: Studying New Vocabulary Words in Context
Lesson 9: Tracing the Chronological Development of Plot
Lesson 10: Using the Dash in Punctuation
Lesson 11: The Nature of Courage
Lesson 12: A Matter of Choice
Lesson 13: Creating Imagery
Lesson 14: Punctuating dialogue
Lesson 15: Examining Naturalism
Lesson 16: Parable/Fable
Lesson 17: A Twist of Fate
Lesson 18: The Rest of the Story
Lesson 19: The More Things Change…
Lesson 20: Universal Truths
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Essential Lessons have been developed to teach students key reading skills. Whereas many lesson plans focus on the comprehension of a single text, eNotes Essential Lessons build the expertise that enables students to understand a variety of texts. Using an exemplar text as a guide, the Essential Lesson teaches students to perform textual analysis, develop an argument, and connect style, structure, and theme.