Harmless Study Guide

This study guide enables students to gain in-depth understanding of Dana Reinhardt’s novel Harmless. The wide range of activities and exercises are designed to further students’ writing, speaking, critical and analytical thinking skills, as well as their imagination and creativity. Pre-reading tasks encourage students to anticipate developments, discuss expectations, express opinions. Each section provides summary tasks, progressively challenging vocabulary exercises, text comprehension, discussion questions, and novel-based writing tasks. Graphic organizers teach students to structure information visually, develop understanding of elements of literature and their effects, allow to identify and analyze relationships and conflicts and thus raise awareness of interpersonal dynamics and ethics. Strategies of text composition offer instruction for writing different text types. The many activities provide teachers with opportunities for varied assessment. Intended for grades 7-10.