Jo's decision to sell her hair to bringing her wounded father home is a pivotal and poignant scene from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Class members read the excerpt and answer four questions about the details, vocabulary, and plot points of the story.

Concepts

little women, reading comprehension, making inferences, louisa may alcott, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as a homework assignment or as part of a reading assessment
• Have class members use the resource as a model for their own worksheet, in which they choose a reading excerpt and write comprehension questions for peers to answer

Classroom Considerations

• Passage is from chapter 15 of Little Women
• Excerpt may require more context for learners to understand; best used in a Little Women novel unit so readers are familiar with the characters and plot
• Parts of the resource is in color, but would still be readable if printed in black and white

Pros

• Questions address a variety of skills, including contextual vocabulary, inference making, and reading comprehension

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.4.1 RL.5.1