✦RBLevel 8 · High School TrackUS Grades 9–10Lexile 690LAR (ATOS) 4.5 · First published 1999
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Speak to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Square Fish paperback (Macmillan), ISBN 9780312674397. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🎨 Art and Artists
Picasso and Cubism, Guernica, Rodin’s Burghers of Calais, linocut, and what an art class can teach about seeing.
SUPPORTING
🏛️ History and Rights
The suffragists and the Silent Sentinels, Tinker and student speech, how child labor became illegal, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
Present-tense vignettes, symbol and motif, the foil, flashback and delayed revelation, and a coming-of-age ending.
