Read the first half of Part III, "Welch," up until the chapter in which the child-welfare man comes to the house (ending with "She threw her paintbrush into the jar that held her turpentine and sat there looking at the drowning woman.").
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. - 2
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such...
