Unit 1 will analyze the concept of suspense in literature. We will use a novel as well as excerpts and short stories to identify the elements of suspense in a text. With this study you will summarize your knowledge and then demonstrate your ability to create a Suspense Story. Your challenge is to scare me!!!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is about Nobody Owens. Nobody Owens, known sa Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family.
The Graveyard Book, a modern classic, is the only work ever to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) medals.
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by: Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is a book of writings kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
The diary has been published in more than 70 languages. It was found by their friend Miep and given to Anne's Father, Otto Frank, the family's only known survivor after the war was over.
The book has been adapted into multiple films. We will watch one adaptation after reading the diary.