1. 1.18 Studying the choices an author Did not make to better understand the ones they did

2. connection
20 questions

3. Teaching point
Today I want to teach you that it can be helpful think about the choices authors make and don’t make to come to new insights.

4. Teaching
Snow When the flying boat returns to earth at last, I open my eyes and gaze out the round window. What is all the white? I whisper. Where is all the world?
What DIDN’T the author do?
Didn’t call it “Kek Comes to America”
Didn’t make it sunny

5. Teaching Why did your author start you story they way they did?
Try imagining other ways they could have started it to understand the choices they did make.

6. Teaching
1. How could the author have started this story? What are some possibilities?
2. So why did they start it this way?

7. teaching To Deepen Interpretation, Readers Can…
Compare and contrast the way a theme develops in two different texts.
Study settings, characters, and key scenes to develop new, stronger thinking about themes in two texts.
Revise interpretations to make them more nuanced and precise.
Compare how different characters connect to a common theme—the same and in different texts.
Revise your theme statement to include all characters’ perspectives
Consider the choices the author could have made to better understand the ones they did make.