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TRM ELL Essential Guide Handout chapter 1
An ELL Essential Guide for this section
An ELL Essential Guide for this section
can be found in the Teacher’s Resource
can be found in the T eacher’ s Resour ce
Materials.
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Analyzing Short Fiction this unit, see the test bank, which is avail-this unit, see the test bank, which is avail-
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able in the book’s digital platform.s digital platform.
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hile several characteristics distinguish humans from other animals, one of the
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of thousands of years. Plenty of nonhuman species and organisms communicate with grammar topics, assign LearningCurve in
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each other — think of the waggle dance honeybees perform, the song chickadees sing, the book’ s digital platform.
the tails dogs wag, and even the chemical signals plants send — but none of them tell
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stories about anything but the here and now. Whether with cave paintings in France, an
epic poem in Anglo-Saxon England, or the trickster stories of American Indians,
humans have been communicating about food sources, common enemies, and life
lessons in ways that not only educate but that also entertain. And once humans could
rely less on communication as a means for survival, storytellers became revered for
their abilities to transfix audiences and preserve the immortality of heroes. In fact,
stories are so important to every human culture that you are now embarking on a
journey to discover and analyze the art of storytelling on the page.
In Section 1 of this chapter, we will look at the big-picture elements of storytelling,
including characters, setting, plot, point of view, and perspective. You will experience
each of these in Edward P. Jones’s short story “The First Day” as well as in excerpts
from other works. Section 2 provides an opportunity to examine the more detailed
elements of this art form through close reading, and we will explore how a writer’s word
choice and sentence structure shape a story and how figurative language, imagery,
tone, and mood convey meaning. By engaging in this work, you are participating in a
uniquely human experience that really is magical. Welcome.

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DIFFERENTIATION
Connections to Texts
The introduction to this chapter focuses
on the historical context of storytelling
and communication. You may wish to ask
students to share their favorite stories,
television shows, movies, etc., and share the
storytelling techniques used in these stories
in small groups.

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