Performance Outcomes and Deliverables
Students focus on themes and conflicts, examine imagery and dialogue, identify literary devices and dramatic situations, role-play, and analyze characters. A section of the unit is dedicated to making comparisons with The Red Pony. Supplementary materials include optional activities and a test with answer key.
- Critical thinking
- Leadership and responsibility
The Yearling is a poignant tale of a young boy, Jody, and his longing for a pet. This story about a boy and a deer he finds in the wilderness is set in the author’s beloved Florida scrub country. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature a year after the novel’s publication in 1938. Adults had a book reminiscent of childhood and one that they could read to their children; children had a story they could enjoy for its action, humor, and adventure.