Long Way Down
Grade 10•45 minutes•CCSS ELA 10-11 RL1, RL2, RL3, and RL4
Learning Objective
I can examine how characters' perspectives and motivations shape the events and conflicts in *Long Way Down*.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. Describe the three rules that Will lives by and explain how they influence his initial decision to seek revenge.
2. How does the video suggest that Will's perspective is shaped by the death of his brother, Sean, and the environment he grew up in?
3. The video mentions that Will uses skills from TV crime shows to deduce who killed Sean. How might this detail reveal Will's naiveté or limited understanding of real-world violence?
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Educational Video
Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds - So You Haven't Read
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