90 pages • 3 hours read
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008
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Introduction
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- Genre: Fiction; young adult science fiction/suspense
- Originally Published: 2008
- Reading Level/Interest: Lexile 570L; grades 7-12
- Structure/Length: 18 chapters; approx. 288 pages; approx. 7 hours, 40 minutes on audio
- Protagonist and Central Conflict: Sometime in the near future, 17-year-old Jenna Fox struggles to learn the truth about a terrible accident that caused her long coma and the erasure of all her memories.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Biomedical ethics; graphic imagery related to a car accident; profanity (one instance); characters with prosthetics; characters with disabilities
Mary E. Pearson, Author
- Bio: Born in 1955 in Southern California; attended Long Beach State University and San Diego State University; became a classroom teacher; credits young students with inspiring her desire to become a professional writer; a bestselling author of young adult fantasy and cross-genre fiction
- Other Works: The Miles Between (2010); The Fox Inheritance (sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox; 2011); The Kiss of Deception (Book 1 of The Remnant Chronicles; 2014)
- Awards: Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year (2009); ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2009); YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2010)
CENTRAL THEMES connected and noted throughout this Teaching Unit:
- Nature, Man’s Relationship with Nature, and Survival
- Parent-Child Relationships
- Choices (Can vs. Should)
STUDY OBJECTIVES: In accomplishing the components of this Unit, students will:
- Develop an understanding of the social and cultural contexts regarding characters’ choices and their consequences that drive the central concern of the novel.
- Analyze short paired texts and other resources to make connections via the text’s themes of Parent-Child Relationships, Choices (Can vs. Should), and Nature, Man’s Relationship with Nature, and Survival.
- Plan and design a collage of what it means to be human based on text details.
- Analyze and evaluate plot and character details to draw conclusions in structured essay responses regarding Jenna’s dynamic character, the differences between Dane and Ethan, and other topics.
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