ELA-Author-Fore-IT

Author's Craft - Foreshadowing - Print - Information Texts

 * 6-8**
 * //Figuratively speaking; covers 40 basic literary terms using examples from classic literature//, Dana Heidrich, copyright 2004.
 * Presents examples of literature and activities of foreshadowing, metaphor and more **.


 * E1-E4**

//"Prologue: Stab in the Back"// from //Adolf Hitler// by John Toland. ISBN: 0385037244. This short text provides the life altering event for Adolf Hitler, the future //Furher////.// In 1918 the allies caused mass German desertions is a war filled with horror.

//"Chota: Cherokee Beloved Town in a World at War"// from The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities by Colin G. Calloway. ISBN: 0521471494. The strategic location of the disintegrating Cherokee cities foreshadowed The "Trail of Tears" that students will have studies previously. The new Cherokee nation that "arose from the [American] Revolution was very different from that of the eighteenth century."

//"Morning Glory"// from Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg [Pulitzer Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow]. A chapter in the life of the famous actress Katherine Hepburn that foreshadows her career with its ups and downs. Her reasoning about what was good and what was bad theater provided a moment of understanding about her potential as a film and theater star.

//"Preface to My Poems"// from //Where I Live: Selected Essays// by Tennessee Williams. This beginning essay in the collection portends that civilization is no longer innocent about anything. Be it war, sex, or morality, this essay begins to explain point of view and foreshadows the award winning plays and other work to come.