Can an action be so bad that you are sickened with guilt? Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the main character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, believes that committing a crime could be the answer to his troubles. However, the gradual and overwhelming guilt leads to Raskolnikov's downfall.

Concepts

novels, reading, literature, crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevsky

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Introduce characters before reading to avoid confusion with similar-sounding Russian names

Classroom Considerations

• Includes discussion of drunkenness, prostitution, and murder
• Readers must scroll to navigate the eBook

Pros

• Offers a full text of the novel
• Text is downloadable to view on devices
  

Cons

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.4 RL.9-10.5 L.9-10.1.a