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Author's Craft - Foreshadowing - Print - Fiction Resources
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6-8 > as a matter of course--but if he sees someone else being pushed around, he may strike back. When the seven-year-old girl who lives next door is murdered, Jason is horrified. The book has many examples of foreshadowing and will offer many opportunities for students to make predictions. 
 * //Darkness Before Dawn,// Sharon Draper, copyright 2001. As the protagonist Keisha struggles to rebuild her life after the tragic death of her boyfriend Andy, she finds herself meeting a charming and mysterious guy with a dark side. This book contains several examples of foreshadowing as the reader is given clues that ultimately lead to a startling revelation at the book's end. [|Study guide for Darkness Before Dawn]
 * //The City of Ember// by Jeanne Duprau ISBN 978-0-375-82274-2, In progress
 * //Rag and Bone Shop// by Robert Cormier, Copyright 2001 Jason, almost 13, is a shy, ineffectual child, who takes being bullied


 * E1-E4 //(Needs explanatory sentences, review for variety)//**
 * //Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus//, Mary Shelley. Novel. Copyright 2003. ISBN-10: 0141439475, ISBN-13: 978-0141439471.
 * //Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands//, Susan Carol McCarthy. Novel. Coyright 2003. ISBN-10: 0553381032, ISBN-13: 978-0553381030.
 * //Of Mice and Men//, John Steinbeck. Novel. Copyright 2006. ISBN-10: 0141023570, ISBN-13: 978-0141023571.
 * //What Happened to Cass McBride?// Gail Giles. YA novel. Copyright 2007. ISBN-10: 0316166391, ISBN-13: 978-0316166393.
 * //[|"Fall of the House of Usher,"]// Edgar Allen Poe. Short story.
 * //[|"The Lottery,"]// Shirley Jacksons. Short story.
 * //"Hamlet," "King Lear,"// and //"Macbeth,"// William Shakespeare. Plays/tragedies.
 * //[|"Richard Cory,"]// Edwin Arlington Robinson. Poem.
 * //[|"Rime of the Ancident Mariner,"]// Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poem.