Pre-Reading Activity - Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska brings up many common events and themes that teenagers experience on a regular basis in their own lives. That said, students will have many different opinions as to how these themes and events play out in both characters' lives, and their own.

Agree or Disagree with the following statements. Explain your answer. (Hint: Pay attention to the language)

1. Teenagers think that they are invincible.

2. Friends are more important than family.

3. Teenagers' friends are always a bad influence.

4. Things that happen to people as children can influence their lives forever.

5. Trust is the most important part of friendship.

6. Life is one endless struggle.

7. It is impossible for boys and girls to "just be friends"

CCSS.ELA-Literacy SL.9-10.1

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