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Pam Muñoz RyanA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. What are the different structures a family can take? What makes a family a family? Develop a personal definition based on your own experiences and observations.
Teaching Suggestion: Students engaging with this open-ended question will begin to explore one of the novel’s central themes: Family: Ideal Versus Reality. The resources below might encourage students to discuss the more abstract ideas about family; they could be used to help generate ideas before answering the question, or they could be used to help students reflect on each other’s responses.
Differentiation Suggestion: For advanced learners, consider engaging directly with the notion of ideal versus reality with a graphic organizer, such as a T-chart, individually or as a class. On one side, students could describe what ideals people have about families and which media depictions fuel those ideals.
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