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Elizabeth AcevedoA 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 do you know about September 11, 2001? What about American Airlines Flight 587?
Teaching Suggestion: Encourage students to think critically about what they may have heard about Flight AA587 and provide them with resources for learning more about it.
2. What is a Coming-of-Age story? What are some examples of such stories?
Teaching Suggestion: Students may think first about classic coming-of-age stories, so use this opportunity to introduce a different type of coming-of-age story.
Short Activity
Novels-in-verse tell book-length stories through a poetic form. Think of a memory and consider how you can tell that story as a novel-in-verse.
By Elizabeth Acevedo