This pre-reading activity will certainly make your class ponder. With five questions to reflect upon, get insight to the moral dilemma Percy faced in the novel Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. 

Concepts

prereading, text connections, opinions, freewriting, novels, studying literature, reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Distribute a writing journal for pupils to write in throughout the reading of the novel, include reflections on their answers of this pre-reading activity 
• Invite shcolars to come up with their own questions, and discuss as a class the opinions and decisions they would make

Classroom Considerations

• Preview the questions to confirm they are appropriate for your class 
• This activity was created by a student teacher in part of a novel unit for the book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Pros

• Steps are written in detail for easy implementation 

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.6.10 RL.7.10 RL.8.10 W.6.4 W.6.10 W.7.4 W.7.10 W.8.4 W.8.10