Duffy's Jacket Short Story
- Grades
- Grades 6–8
- Pages
- 44
- File type
- PPT
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Literature, Reading Comprehension
- Topic
- Duffy’s Jacket, Short story
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- RL.7.1
Product description
From the author
Duffy’s Jacket Short Story Teaching Resource
Read Bruce Coville’s story, then use the student slides to map the plot, interpret literary elements and support responses with story details. Reference slides explain figurative language and theme. An optional descriptive writing/drawing activity asks students to describe a creature for a classmate to draw.
The download contains a 12-slide student PowerPoint, a 16-slide teacher PowerPoint and a 16-slide watermarked preview. The teaching files contain editable text. Directions mention a Google Forms quiz, but the supplied files do not provide its link.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Explain plot developments and literary elements using story details.
Teaching tips
- Ask students to distinguish the story’s resolution from the theme they infer.
Skills covered
Figurative-language identification -- students find and interpret simile, idiom and hyperbole examples both in reference slides and later within the story itself.
Plot structure mapping -- students place the story's exposition, conflict, climax, falling action and resolution onto a labeled plot-map diagram.
Textual evidence and inference -- students answer prompts on character relationship, tone and foreshadowing that require citing specific lines from the story.
Good to know
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What should students read before the activity?
The directions ask students to read Duffy’s Jacket by Bruce Coville before completing the plot and literary-element work.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- RL.7.1
Core concepts
Core concepts
Plot structure
Figurative language
Textual evidence
Characterization
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