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Character Details Consider the Implications

Character’s internal • What adjectives does the character use when describing people, places,
thoughts events, or ideas?
• What internal struggles or choices does the character have?

• What factors influence a character’s choices and decisions?

• Does the perspective change? If so, why?

Dialogue • What does the character choose to say?

Guided Readings and Practice Texts
• How often does the character speak with others?

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• How would you describe the character’s way of speaking?
In the short fiction and poetry units, the first reading in each Big Idea Workshop
• What can you tell about the character’s personality from how he or she

is the Guided Reading. It includes Guided Questions at appropriate points in
speaks to others?

Interactions with the work to help prompt students on questions to ask as they read. In the longer
• Who does the character interact with?
others • Who does the character not interact with?

fiction units, students work solely with Practice Texts.
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• How does the character treat the other characters he or she is around?
The second text in each workshop, the Practice Text, provides an opportu-

• In comparison, how does the character act when he or she is alone?
nity for students to practice the focus skill themselves by answering questions at
the end of the reading.
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124 Unit 2 Analyzing Comparisons and Representations poem? What is
the relationship
he has a bloody sausage casing stuck
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Verses upon the Burning between the
characters? Who is
between his teeth, handprints
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your face, no need to flush red and warm.
Stands permanent, though this be fled. 2. What does
THE TEXT IN CONTEXT It’s purchased and paid for too this physical
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Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) was born to an affluent Puritan amily description reveal?
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at the time, she (along with her husband and parents) emigrated Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
Yet by his gift is made thine own.
to Massachusetts as part of John Winthrop’s Puritan fleet in
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There’s wealth enough; I need no more.
took you to the China Sea and you sank
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Laser-Focused Post-Reading Questions
Protestantism free from the official Church of England, which
Farewell, my pelf; farewell, my store.
your face in it to gaze at baby clams and sea stars
they considered corrupt. Like many of the Puritans, Bradstreet
The world no longer let me love;
At the end of each workshop, students apply the skill emphasized in the work-
found the hardships of the New World difficult. She began writing

My hope and Treasure lies above.
poems in the early 1630s that reflected both her religion and the size of your outstretched hand. And when 3. Why do the
shop and see how it contributes to an interpretation of the text.
all those necks start to crane, try not to forget
her personal experiences — especially the fragility of human life, students crane
the mpermanence of material things, and her hope for religious their necks to
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salvation. Later, her poetry became more personal, as she meditated on herself and her stare?
dry with a fluffy towel after a bath, set out their clothes
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domestic life as the mother of eight children. In the 1666 poem “Verses upon the Burning of
our House,” Bradstreet reflects on a personal experience that had an important meaning.
for the first day of school. Think of their pencil cases
1. How is the speaker described in the first few lines? What does her reaction to 4. What do the
the fire reveal about her values ? character’s
from third grade, full of sharp pencils, a pink pearl eraser.
® SKILLS CHARACTER final thoughts
AP PRACTICE 2. As she reconciles the events of the poem, what does the speaker reveal about reveal about the
Describing a Character’s Perspective

Think of their handheld pencil sharpener and its tiny blade.

her beliefs? character?
3. How do the speaker’s values and beliefs contribute to her perspective ?
As you read “Verses upon the Burning of our House,” consider how details in the
poem help reveal the speaker’s perspective. Record your notes in the graphic
4. The speaker experiences a new understanding of material possessions and their
organizer.
value. What does this insight reveal about her perspective ?
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Details from What the Details Reveal
Considerations the Text about Perspective
Character’s background
Character’s actions and choices
Character’s internal thoughts
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