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The Open Boat: A Tale Intended to be After the Fact. Being the Experience of Four Men Sunk from the Steamer Commodore
Stephen Crane
Published in 1897, The Open Boat is based on an actual incident from Stephen Crane’s life. While on his way to Cuba, Crane's ship sank off the coast of Florida. Crane and other survivors were stranded at sea for thirty hours. They eventually made their way to safety in a small boat, but one of the men drowned while trying to swim to shore. Crane wrote this story soon after the incident occured. |
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Source: Stephen Crane, The Open Boat: A Tale Intended to be After the Fact. Being the Experience of Four Men Sunk from the Steamer Commodore (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1894) | ||||
Lexile Level: TBD | Origin: American | Genre: Fiction, Florida | ||
| Reading Level: 6.5 | Language: English | File name: ob | ||
| Sunshine State Standards: LA.A.1.3: The student uses the reading process effectively. LA.D.2.3: The student understands the power of language. LA.E.2.3: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. | ||||
Theme: Nature, survival | ||||
| Reading Strategy: Literary Techniques (alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similie, idioms, etc) | ||||
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