How can you read a character's tone? What about a narrator's tone? Analyze Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" with a lesson that focuses on how word choice can change tone and how tone can affect the development of a story. After reading the second and third sections of the story, learners complete a writing prompt with evidence supporting their analysis of Claudette's tone.

Concepts

reading comprehension, literary analysis, tone, word choice, elements of a short story, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Incorporate into a unit on figurative language and tone
• Encourage your class to study additional texts with the same amount of focus and analysis
• Assign the Quick Write as a homework assignment or learning assessment

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson addresses a masterful reading but doesn't include a recording to use; if you can't locate one, consider a roundtable reading in your class or small literature circle
• You can find the text on page 258 of the attached module overview, not in this resource
• The text is broken up by page numbers from its original publication, so you might want to consider retyping it for reading ease
• The second lesson in the unit

Pros

• Includes instructional tips for each step of the lesson plan
• Provides a document version of the lesson that you can edit

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 SL.9-10.1.a