Module · Grade 9 · English Language Arts

Author's Choices: Structure and Time

Parallel plots, flashbacks and pacing create tension.

Grade: Grade 9
Subject: English Language Arts
Course: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading Literature
Standards: RL.9-10.5
CCSS-ELA

Tools

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Grade 9 · English Language Arts · Data Desk

Tension Meter

Track tension through a story with parallel plots and flashbacks; the meter graphs how structure builds suspense.

Word Wall

6 words in English and Spanish: flashback, foreshadowing, pacing, parallel plot, suspense, in medias res. Print them as wall cards, mini cards or a student glossary.

Print the words