Vantage Points- Multiple Perspectives

Explore elements of fiction and plot with your middle schoolers through the Japanese short story The Wise Old Woman. Although this lesson is designed around the Holt Literature Book (which includes this story), the links and procedural steps are all you need for an effective study. Readers focus on fiction elements vocabulary terms and read the story with a partner using the "Say Something" strategy. They complete a plot diagram as well. The story isn't included here.