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    The document provides tools and discussion prompts to help readers deeply analyze novels and other complex texts. It includes prompts to have students create process pages, pressure pages, and synthesis pages to comprehend texts on a deeper level. Discussion topics are organized into discussing the basics of characters, settings, quotes, and tones. More advanced discussion prompts include analyzing issues, power dynamics, systems of oppression, and connecting the text to other works and universal themes. The document aims to provide structured guidance and questions to facilitate sophisticated discussions about complex literature.

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    The document provides tools and discussion prompts to help readers deeply analyze novels and other complex texts. It includes prompts to have students create process pages, pressure pages, and synthesis pages to comprehend texts on a deeper level. Discussion topics are organized into discussing the basics of characters, settings, quotes, and tones. More advanced discussion prompts include analyzing issues, power dynamics, systems of oppression, and connecting the text to other works and universal themes. The document aims to provide structured guidance and questions to facilitate sophisticated discussions about complex literature.

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    The document provides tools and discussion prompts to help readers deeply analyze novels and other complex texts. It includes prompts to have students create process pages, pressure pages, and synthesis pages to comprehend texts on a deeper level. Discussion topics are organized into discussing the basics of characters, settings, quotes, and tones. More advanced discussion prompts include analyzing issues, power dynamics, systems of oppression, and connecting the text to other works and universal themes. The document aims to provide structured guidance and questions to facilitate sophisticated discussions about complex literature.

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    Tools to Deepen Thinking & Discussion

    Issues, Group-Related Issues, Global Issues,


    Sources of Power vs. Powerlessness, Power Imbalances, Power Dynamics, Systems of Oppression
    Identity, Coming-of-Age, Internal vs. External Pressures, Tragic Moments, Moments of Hope/Coping

    To Read More Sophisticated Novels, Strong Readers...Do THIS!


    Deepen Comprehension by Creating: Deepen Discussion:
    ❏ Process Pages ❏ Sentence Stems
    ❏ Pressure Pages ❏ Levels of Questioning
    ❏ Synthesis Pages ❏ Critical Lenses
    ❏ Critical Literacy Lenses

    Discuss the Basics: ❏ Issues/Motifs popping up


    ❏ Group-Related Issues
    ❏ Characters
    ❏ Global Issues
    ❏ Pressures Characters Face
    ❏ Investing Power in Complex Texts
    ❏ Character Archetypes
    ❏ Power Dynamics
    ❏ Characterization Critical Lenses
    ❏ Power Imbalances
    ❏ Which Characters are we Sympathizing
    ❏ How Characters Respond to Power
    with? Why?
    ❏ Sources of Power vs. Powerlessness
    ❏ Coming of Age Characters
    ❏ Academic Language to discuss War,
    ❏ Setting: Macro? Micro?
    Culture, Identity
    ❏ Characters Colliding with the Historical
    ❏ Academic Language to Discuss Systems
    Setting
    of Oppression
    ❏ Key Quotes/Passages
    ❏ Moments of Hope/Coping
    ❏ Shifting Tones
    ❏ Moments of Compassion
    ❏ Major Authorial Techniques
    ❏ Mirrors and Windows
    ❏ Authorial Techniques
    ❏ Questions Readers ask to find the Theme
    ❏ Literary Devices Master List
    ❏ Universal Themes
    ❏ Connections to Other Texts we’ve Read
    ❏ The Shapes of Stories
    Discuss Different Genres
    ❏ Poetic Devices
    ❏ Steps to Analyze a Poem
    ❏ Graphic Novel Features
    ❏ Rhetorical Devices (Speeches)
    ❏ Dramatic Techniques

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