Coughlin, E / The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

Students will read

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis.

Students will analyze

narrative writing techniques,

and character analysis.

Students will use the following literary terms in their analysis of the novel:

narrator	1st person point of view	3rd person point of view	protagonist	flashback
simile	metaphor	symbol	repetition	foreshadowing
alliteration	onomatopoeia	hyperbole	setting	conflict

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