Few first lines of literature are as well-known as the first line from Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Readers discover the classic text that contains these lines using a digital eBook. The online version contains page-by-page navigation and the ability to zoom in on the text.

Concepts

moby dick, herman melville, novels

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have students write one-sentence summaries of each chapter as they finish them
• Encourage learners to add illustrations to the text as they read

Classroom Considerations

• Page numbers in the digital version are about 10 pages off from the numbers on the actual book pages

Pros

• Animation makes pages look like the pages of a real book as they turn
• Chapters are labeled with numbers and titles

Cons

• When zoomed in, it is difficult for an entire page to fit on a screen, so users must scroll to read the text

Common Core

RL.6.10 RL.7.10 RL.8.10 RL.9-10.10a RL.11-12.10a