2010-11 Language Arts Focus Works

Governor's Cup: High School

The Illustrated Man short story anthology by Ray Bradbury

Governor's Cup: Middle Grades

The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi

Governor's Cup: Elementary

Hatchet  by Gary Paulsen

Eighty percent of the Focus Works questions pertain directly to the work(s), the remaining twenty percent pertain to:

• The relationship of the works to the author's other works or other authors of the same time period
  The characteristics that match a certain literary school, genre, time period, or era

• The autobiographical or historical influences on the writing of the piece

• The contributions of the work to later writing styles or genres