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Christopher Paul CurtisA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. How can freedom be defined? What opportunities does freedom afford a person when compared to someone who is not free?
Teaching Suggestion: This question might be used to broach the topic of enslavement if students are new to it. Discussion on this topic can be a gateway to introducing the theme of Connections Between Opportunity, Equality, and Freedom.
2. What is empathy? What literary or historical figures display empathy, and in what ways?
Teaching Suggestion: Students might use a dictionary to answer this question if they do not have prior knowledge of the word. Students with familiarity might make a connection to the idea of “being an empath,” but it may be beneficial to focus the conversation on traditional definitions of empathy.
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