Feed by M.T. Anderson Close Reading Analysis Worksheets Bundle

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Challenge high school students to push beyond basic reading comprehension and exercise close reading analysis skills while engaging with Feed by M.T. Anderson, a dystopian science fiction novel. Included are several close reading worksheets, addressing fifteen meaningful excerpts from a variety of chapters, and answer keys. Given the incorporation of multiple choice questions alongside constructed response questions, each activity is rigorous enough for students to find deeper meaning in the text, yet convenient enough for teachers to quickly and efficiently gather data on students’ textual analysis skills. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. By the end of the novel, students will:

• 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

Materials are available for teaching a variety of texts such as:

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare