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Experience and Perspective

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Sixth graders make connections between past experiences and perspective. They read Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith. Then, they analyze a character's history and state the past experiences that form their perspective. In the end, they explain how experience affects the character's point of view.

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Concepts

literature, narrators, point of view

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character's perspective, hope anita smith, keeping the night watch, past experience, literature, narrator, point of view, english language arts
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Grade
6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
Instructional Strategy
Research
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Text-to-Speech
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Common Core

RL.6.6 RI.6.1 RI.6.2 RI.6.3 RI.6.5

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