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Maine A2 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the characteristics noting how structural features and common literary devices help shape the reader's response.
A2.a Analyze the effect of the qualities of a character on the plot and on the resolution of the conflict.
- Literature: "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
- Literature: "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck
- Literature: "Animal Farm" By George Orwell
- Literature: "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand
- Literature: "Dear America" Native American Experience Books
- Literature: "Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White
- Literature: "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
- Literature: "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
- Literature: "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard and Florence Atwater
- Literature: "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
- Literature: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury
- Literature: "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
- Literature: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne
- Literature: "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
