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Novel Study for Candle Island by Lauren Wolk

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A moving portrait of loss and the restorative power of art from Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Beyond the Bright Sea.Lucretia Sanderson has a secret.Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine to escape—escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze are a welcome respite for Lucretia, who dedicates her summer days to painting, explorin

4th - 6th

Literature, Novel Studies, Reading

CCSS

RL.4.1

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Poetry Pairs: William Wordsworth and Marilyn Nelson

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AP with KP

This unit pairs William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” with Marilyn Nelson’s “How I Discovered Poetry.” Opportunities to discuss: Allusion, theme, tone, tone shifts, elements of poetry. Nelson’s poem includes an allusion to the Wordsworth's poem and both are related through a theme of the power of a memory/experience. Strong pairing of classic and a modern poem. Slide show of daffodil pictures to show during reading /work on Wordsworth’s poem. Copies of both poems. Copy of a journ

9th - 12th

Poetry

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