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The Astronomer's Chair — Johannes Kepler has been at the house in Prague since Tycho Brahe began dying, waiting in the way a man waits when the thing happening will change almost everything about his situation. Tycho has spent forty years making observations of the heavens — observations of a precision no one else has achieved, kept in records that are Tycho's property. What happens to forty years of data when the man who owns it dies is not a question Kepler was meant to have to ask.
Each packet includes:
Original classical short story (complete text)
Notes on historical setting and literary tradition
Narration prompts (oral and written)
Comprehension questions — literal and inferential
Vocabulary exercises
Character Constellation graphic organizer (including Character Change Axis)
Story Arc study (five movements, with attention to subtler turning points)
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