outlines an interpretive method to improve close reading, a process that shows students how to develop commentary beyond the plot, strategies used by top performing students on national exams.
guides students to examine key details as they read each page of the text with questions regarding key literary elements: setting, character, tone, atmosphere, point of view, plot, and dialogue
identifies significant passages throughout the text that develop key thematic patterns-providing sample prompts that appear on standardized exams.
provides footnotes for historical and literary context.
provides samples of annotated pages for plot and fort heme.
includes a glossary of challenging vocabulary.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ian Berry has been a teacher at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas for ten years. He has studied literature at the University of Texas and Sorbonne University (formerly Université Paris-Sorbonne). He first discovered his love for writing as a student in Degen’s AP Literature classroom, and has been refining the craft of teaching it ever since.
