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The Painter's Last Commission — Jan Adriaenssen is the restorer in Antwerp in 1651, which means that when a cloth merchant buys an Annunciation panel at an estate sale and brings it to him to be cleaned, Jan is the person who spends the first hour establishing what kind of painter made it and what the painter found worth solving. The commission is the commission. What Jan finds in the paint is not.
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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