Unit 0 SHIFT: First Lines 2022 AP Lit by Darice Moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022 Choose a first line that appeals to you. Read it closely. What does this line tell you about the book? Complete the handout and turn it in to your class's Skill Check drawer. en-us 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC 2022-08-09 15:15:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png A screaming comes across the sky. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398296 Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398296 All this happened, more or less. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398297 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398297 At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time—between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.—by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398298 John Green, Turtles All the Way Down ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398298 Even in death, the boys were trouble. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398301 Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398301 First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398302 Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398302 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398306 Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398306 He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398307 Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398307 He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398308 Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398308 I am a coward. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398309 Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398309 I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398310 Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398310 I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398312 Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398312 I might have to kill somebody tonight. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398314 Angie Thomas, On the Come Up ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398314 I shouldn’t have come to this party. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398316 Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398316 I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398317 Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398317 If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398318 Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398318 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of 🤬, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398319 J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398319 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398320 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398320 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398321 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398321 It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398322 Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398322 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398324 George Orwell, 1984 ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398324 It was a dark and stormy night. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398326 Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398326 It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398328 Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398328 It was a pleasure to burn. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398330 Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398330 It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398333 Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398333 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398335 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398335 Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398336 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398336 Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398337 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398337 My two favorite things to do with my time are helping people and looking at cat pictures. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398338 Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398338 Nobody ever walked across the bridge, not on a night like this. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398340 Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398340 Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398341 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398341 The big question: Is Origami Yoda real? darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398342 Tom Angleberger, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398342 The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398343 Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398343 The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed him. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398344 Stephen King, The Gunslinger ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398344 The moment one learns English, complications set in. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398345 Felipe Alfau, Chromos ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398345 The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398348 William Gibson, Neuromancer ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398348 The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398351 Donna Tartt, The Secret History ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398351 The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398352 Samuel Beckett, Murphy ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398352 The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398353 Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398353 There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398354 C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398354 There was a boy in her room. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398356 Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398356 There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398357 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398357 They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398358 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398358 Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398360 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398360 To Mrs. Saville, England: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398361 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398361 Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398363 Charles Dickens, David Copperfield ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398363 Zoom in. Zoom in more. A little more. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398365 Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely, All American Boys ]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398365 INSTRUCTIONS darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398366 Choose a first line that appeals to you. Read it closely. 

What does the line tell you about the book?

Complete the handout for Unit 0: SHIFT Your Perspective.]]> 2022-08-08 03:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256398366 The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256401437 Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven]]> 2022-08-08 03:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256401437 A boy is coming down a flight of stairs. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256402078 Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet]]> 2022-08-08 03:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256402078 No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. darice_moore https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256402996 Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House]]> 2022-08-08 04:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/darice_moore/FirstLinesLit2022/wish/2256402996