Do You Prefer Your Children's Book Characters Obedient or Contrary? Opinion Writing

With this New York Times "Learning Network" exercise, high schoolers read an article about the death of Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are and then respond to several prompts that require them to shape their own opinions and express them in short answers. Prompts for this resource require high-level critical thinking and provide an opportunity  for crafting well-supported opinions based on informational text.