Download Collection 2 A Soldier for the Crown

Name: ____________________________________________
Grade 11
Date: ___________________ Period: ____
Collection 2: A Soldier for the Crown
pg. 159 – 163
By Charles Johnson
The following story that you are read will focus on the following standards. Translate, in your own words,
what each standard is requiring you to be able to do. Take notice of how each question below relates to each
of the identified standards.
Standard
Denotative Meaning
Connotative Meaning
(Skills you’re
tested on)
RL.1.1
RL.2.5
RL.2.6
W.2.5
W.37.
W.3.9a
W.4.10
SL.1.1a
SL.1.3
L.2.3a
Cite textual evidence
Analyze how an author’s choices
concerning how to structure specific parts
of a text contribute to its overall meaning
as well as its aesthetic impact
Analyze a case in which grasping point of
view requires distinguishing what is stated
from what is really meant.
Develop and strengthen writing as needed
by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or
trying a new approach.
Conduct research projects.
Draw evidence from literary or
informational text. Apply standards to
literature.
Write routinely.
Come to discussions prepared.
Evaluate a speaker’s point of view,
reasoning, and use of evidence and
rhetoric.
Vary syntax for effect; apply an
understanding of syntax.
Read the short story “A Soldier for the Crown” by Charles Johnson. Then, reread the lines indicated with
each question below. Answer each question, citing text evidence.
1. Lines 1–14: Which statements in these lines introduce suspense? What do these statements make you
wonder about what will happen next? (RL 1.1 & 2.5)
2. Lines 1–13: What effect does the use of second-person point of view have on the reader? (RL.2.6)
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3. Lines 20–35: What references are there in these lines to the ambiguity (the uncertainty created when
the writer leaves things open to interpretation) of the main character’s identity?(RL.1.1 & 2.5)
4. Lines 58–66: What question from the first page of the story do these lines start to answer? What new
questions do they introduce? (RL.1.1 & 2.5)
5. Lines 69–74: Is the narrator of the story omniscient or limited? What evidence supports your answer?
(RL.1.1 & 2.6)
6. Lines 98–110: How do these lines create suspense? (RL.2.5)
7. Lines 133–138: Which details refer to Alexander’s feelings, not to things that other people would be
able to see? (RL.1.1 & 2.6)
8. Lines 138–156: What new information do you receive in these lines? How does it resolve some of the
story’s suspense? What suspense still remains? (RL.2.5)
9. Lines 157–161: What does the narrator mean in lines 160–161? How does the choice of the secondperson point of view help the author preserve the ambiguity surrounding the main character’s identity?
(RL.2.6)
10. Lines 162–166: What questions do you still have about what might happen after the ending of the
story? (RL.2.5)
11. What were you being asked (standard) to do in almost every question?
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