Part to Whole!

It hurts when a character you love dies. But I will tell you, as I always tell myself, things will get better.
Just not yet.

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing setting
• Revealing character traits
• Comparing characters

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The woods were dark, forbidding, and dead. So forbidding that almost no one went in. And exactly no one came out. It was called the Schwarzwald - the Wood of Darkness.

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing setting
• Revealing character development
• Hinting at t

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

Faithfulness is important. Under-standing is important. But nothing is as precious as children. Nothing.

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing a setting
• Revealing character traits
• Hinting at a theme

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The end.
Sort of.

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing setting
• Revealing character development
• Contrasting characters

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"We should run away. Just in case they do it again," said Gretel.
"That's just what I was thinking," replied Hansel. "Just what I was thinking.

• Establishing setting
• Revealing character traits
• Comparing characters
• Contrasting characters

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"They found themselves in a mucky, sticky swamp with willow wisps that never seemed to end." 

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing setting
• Comparing characters
• Hinting at a theme

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

While she liked chicken and she liked beef and she liked pork, what she really, really liked was child. 

• Hooking the reader
• Contrasting characters
• Revealing character traits
• Establishing setting

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Their new father was happy, but their new mother seemed to bear a great sadness wherever she went.

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing the setting
• Contrasting characters
• Hinting at a theme

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Hansel and Gretel walked until they came to a beautiful lake that shimmered in the starlight.

• Hooking the reader
• Establishing setting
• Comparing characters
• Hinting at a theme

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The shining stars seemed far nicer than the hot and terrible sun and the kooky moon.

• Establishing setting
• Comparing characters
• Contrasting characters
• Hinting at a theme

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5