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James Patterson, Kwame AlexanderA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. Have you ever read a novel in verse? What was it, and what was the reading experience like? Whether or not you have read a verse novel, what might influence a writer to choose that format for telling a story?
Teaching Suggestion: Students may be unaccustomed to reading a novel in this format, so introducing them to it can be helpful in training them to think about how to analyze the decisions authors make in telling a story and how poetry creates different effects than prose. It might be beneficial to introduce terms if students have little familiarity (prose, verse, stanza, couplet, etc.).
2. What do you know about Muhammad Ali? What accomplishments is he known for? In what ways might he have inspired others?
Teaching Suggestion: Students might be familiar with Muhammad Ali from US history courses and conversations about Malcolm X and the African American freedom struggle.
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