As you work through a literary analysis unit based on Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," use a writing assessment to measure your class's skills. They choose one epigraph from the story to analyze and track character development throughout the rest of the text.

Concepts

literary analysis, reading comprehension, character development

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign the prompt for homework over a long weekend or vacation period
• Use the assessment as a way to check for understanding and mark progress on a reading benchmark

Classroom Considerations

• Designed as a mid-unit assessment for the nine preceding units
• You can locate the text for the story on page 258 in the attached module overview

Pros

• Promotes critical thinking and self-assessment
• Provides an analysis rubric to guide the assessment process

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.5 W.9-10.2.a