Feed by M.T. Anderson Novel Study Bundle

This low-prep bundle covering Feed by M.T. Anderson contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to assess general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, facilitate student research on a range of relevant topics, and greatly reduce take-home lesson planning responsibilities. Included are four multiple choice quizzes; four short answer alternate quiz options; four close reading worksheets covering fifteen substantive novel passages; literature circle activities; research project materials; an end-of-unit test; and answer keys for everything. Materials are delivered in both Word Document and PDF formats.

By engaging with these resources, students will have opportunities to perform the following tasks:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
• Clarify details where the author leaves information open to interpretation
• Isolate examples of figurative language
• Express the greater significance of given details
• Determine the tone of given excerpts
• Discern the functions of given excerpts
• Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
• Articulate flaws in characters’ logic
• Analyze the author’s use of narrative techniques such as repetition
• Apply knowledge of various literary devices including simile, metaphor, personification, slang, onomatopoeia, situational irony, consonance, pun, idiom, epiphany, invective, malapropism, aposiopesis, neologism, and more
• Consider theme in relation to the text
• Evaluate an excerpt to articulate how it is a good example of satire
• Relate a given excerpt to the real world, identifying two relevant societal issues, conflicts, or questions
• Explore the connection between capitalism and the private healthcare system in America
• Conduct brief research on the topic of cognitive dissonance in order to explain how a character experiences it in the context of a given excerpt
• Cite textual evidence in support of ideas and claims
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
• Articulate connections between a research topic and the assigned novel
• Develop successful methods of recording information
• Evaluate the credibility of nonfiction texts, taking into consideration readability, date, relevance, expertise, and bias
• Apply conventions of MLA formatting
• Correctly site resources to avoid plagiarism
• Organize information in a cohesive manner, using a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrasing, and quoted material
• Analyze, synthesize, and integrate information, generating a thoughtfully comprehensive report, free of generalities and redundancies
• Present information in a formal, coherent manner