Love Letters to the Dead
By: Ava Dellaira
Grades: 7-12
Genre: Fiction
Lexile: 790L
Summary: For an English assignment, Laurel begins writing letters to a dead person. She chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. Like May, Kurt died young. Soon, Laurel has filled a notebook with letters to people; people like Janis Joplin, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and Amy Winehouse. Despite the assignment, she never gives a single letter to her teacher. She writes about everything - starting high school, falling in love, making new friends, her splintering family. Laurel begins to discover the truth about herself and her sister.
Possible Learning Activity: Students will write letters to a person of their choice. They may choose to use their own experiences or makeup ones to write about in their letters.
Standards:
New York State Learning Standards and Core Curriculum:
CC.RL.9-10.2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CC.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Learning Objectives:
- Students will practice letter writing skills, using examples from the text.
- Students may choose to write about their own experiences or makeup fictional experience in their letters.
- Students will learn how to think critically and write in detail.
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