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
