Bend I: Tackling Complex Texts
- Reading analytically at the start of a book
- Monitoring for sense
- Thinking across timelines
- Character's perspectives are shaped by their roles
- Making significance
- Seeing big ideas in small details
- Determining themes
- Deepening Interpretation through collaboration and close reading
- Attending to minor characters
- Turning to primary sources to better understand history
- Turning reading into a project
- Readers learn history from historical narratives
- Some people's perspective is not all people's perspective
- Seeing power in its many forms
- Finding thematic connections across texts