Between Shades of Gray Novel Study (Updated Nov 2023)

Summary

Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life--until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive?

Unit Information – 45 pages/9 slides (Includes pdf and Editable Word documents)

This novel study includes:

· Introduction PowerPoint (9 slides) Added Nov 2023

· 348 Novel Study Q & A Resource pages (15 pages) Added more questions Nov 2023

· Novel Study Questions Student Handout (11 pages – separated by chapters)

· Novel Answers Resource Page with page number (12 pages)

The questions are only literal/recall questions that can be used as daily running quizzes as students read the novel. Instructors are free to create their own higher-order thinking questions for this novel. These questions can be used to help quiz students for Battle of the Books competitions.

· Vocabulary Student Handout (1 pages Added Nov 2023

· Vocabulary Definitions Resource Page (1 page – 15 words) Added

· Nov 2023

· Novel Study Test (Includes answers and optional essay) (4 pages) Added Nov 2023

· Essay Grading Rubric (1 page) Added Nov 2023