Novels and Drama

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Welcome to Novels and Drama!

Welcome to Albert's Novels and Drama course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Novels and Drama course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Subject Organization

Novels and Drama is organized by chronological themes based on publication date and further broken down into topics based on a single passage from a larger work.

Themes

  • Novels and Drama from 1300–1660
  • Novels and Drama from 1660–1790
  • Novels and Drama from 1790–1910
  • Novels and Drama from 1910–1945
  • Novels and Drama from 1945–1999
  • Novels and Drama from 2000-Present

Topics

Each theme contains a range of specific topics focused on carefully curated passages from canonical and contemporary texts. For example, here are some topics within Novels and Drama from 2000-Present.
  • Amina's Voice
  • Hamilton
  • The Road

Subtopics

Each topic contains six subtopics that are modeled after our Full-Text Analysis courses. These subtopics are designed to allow for targeted, bite-sized bellringers and broader, in-depth analysis.
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Vocabulary in Context
  • Character Analysis
  • Literary Devices
  • Social-Historical Context
  • Themes and Motifs

Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions

Standards

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter. Albert’s Novels and Drama questions are aligned to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. 
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Tags

Albert’s Core ELA courses include 2 types of tags, reading skills tags and reading content tags.  These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as “textual-evidence” or “world-literature”. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level.

Question Types

Novels and Drama uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.
  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Select
  • Two-Way Tables
  • Fill-in-the-blank
  • Snippet Select

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