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Mentor Texts
"Three Bears In Search of An Author" Dan Greenburg presents a retell of The Three Bears demonstrating the writing styles of Hemmingway and Salinger.
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"A Sound of Thunder" Ray Bradbury loads the text with descriptive language, simile, metaphor, imagery; idea development
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst captures the voice of the first person narrator, Alexander; shows how other characters interact with the main character.
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"The Flowers" Alice Walker demonstrates how word choice establishes the mood in a short story; shows how mood and word choice affect idea development
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"Broken Chain" Gary Soto expertly uses third person limited narrator; simile is a favorite for this author.
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allen Poe, the master of suspense provides instruction on word choice, foreshadowing, the unreliable narrator, and revealing the unknown.
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"Fish Cheeks" Amy Tan writes a personal narrative about an experience she had as a teenager.
"The Gettysburg Address" Abraham Lincoln gives insight into using common values to evoke emotions in his audience to create tone.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" Ray Bradbury presents personification on steroids
"Trees" Joyce Kilmer uses a myriad of poetic elements in what seems like a short, simple poem.
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