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Double Identity Double Identity By: Margaret Peterson Haddix Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Copyright: 2005 Genre: Science Fiction Setting: Midwestern state SUMMARY: The word doppelganger means someone who looks exactly like you. Twelve-year-old Bethany is getting the feeling that she has a doppelganger. Even though most of Bethany’s life has been normal, except that her parents are a bit overprotective. But, everything changes as she approaches her 13th birthday. Her mother can’t stop crying, Bethany is dropped off to stay with an aunt she never knew existed, and her parents seem to have abandoned her. She learns over the next week that nothing about her life is normal and she really has no idea who she is. AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Born in Midwest, Margaret Peterson Haddix dreamed of being an author, a career that not too many individuals she knew had. So throughout her life, most of her careers revolved around writing. As a journalist, Ms. Haddix gathered many of the ideas from the people she interviewed to the circumstances surrounding the why’s she met these people. So from these ideas developed many of the books she has written. Other books written by the author: Among the Hidden Among the Enemy Among the Barons Among the Brave Among the Betrayed Among the Free Among the Imposters Because of Anya Just Ella The Girl with 500 Middle Names The House on the Gulf Running out of Time Say What? Turnabout Dexter the Touch Found Don’t You Dare Read this, Mrs. Dunphrey Escape from Memory Uprising Takeoffs and Landings Palace of Mirrors Leaving Fishers SIMILAR BOOKS/BOOKS WITH A SIMILAR THEME: House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Double Helix by Nancy Werlin This Side of Paradise by Steven Layne DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (If question is related to a specific chapter, chapter is in parenthesis following question) 1. What are the similarities between Bethany and Elizabeth? What are the differences? 2. What are the ethics of cloning? What is your opinion? 3. Do you think cloning should be outlawed? Why or why not? 4. How would you think Bethany’s life will be like as a teenager? An adult? 5. Do you think a story like this could really happen? Why or why not? 6. How would you react if you learned you had a clone? 7. Compare the relationship that Bethany has with her aunt and her mother. 8. How has the different deaths in their families changed their lives differently? 9. Explain how Joss’s losses have changed her life choices? 10. Who are you more like, Joss (at 13), Elizabeth, or Bethany? Explain your choice. LITERARY LINKS: Language Arts Write a journal from Bethany to Elizabeth. How does Elizabeth respond? Rewrite a chapter from the book from another character’s point of view. 8.3.8 Contrast points of view — such as first person, third person, third person limited and third person omniscient, and subjective and objective — in narrative text and explain how they affect the overall theme of the work. 7.3.3 Analyze characterization as shown through a character’s thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator’s description; and the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters. 7.3.5 Contrast points of view — such as first person, third person, limited and omniscient, and subjective and objective — in a literary text and explain how they affect the overall theme of the work. Write a letter either in support or against cloning. 8.5.4 Write persuasive compositions that: • include a well-defined thesis that makes a clear and knowledgeable appeal. • present detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning to support effective arguments and emotional appeals. • provide details, reasons, and examples, arranging them effectively by anticipating and answering reader concerns and counterarguments. 7.5.7 Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person, adjusting style and tone as necessary. Write a report about cloning. 8.5.3 Write or deliver a research report that has been developed using a systematic research process (defines the topic, gathers information, determines credibility, reports findings) and that: • uses information from a variety of sources (books, technology, multimedia) and documents sources independently by using a consistent format for citations. • demonstrates that information that has been gathered has been summarized and that the topic has been refined through this process. • demonstrates that sources have been evaluated for accuracy, bias, and credibility. • organizes information by categorizing and sequencing, and demonstrates the distinction between one’s own ideas from the ideas of others, and includes a bibliography (Works Cited). 7.4.5 Identify topics; ask and evaluate questions; and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. 7.4.6 Give credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent format for citations and understand the issues around copyright and plagiarism. 7.4.7 Use a computer to create documents by using word-processing skills and publishing programs; develop simple databases and spreadsheets to manage information and prepare reports. 7.5.4 Write persuasive compositions that: • state a clear position or perspective in support of a proposition or proposal. • describe the points in support of the proposition, employing well- articulated evidence and effective emotional appeals. • anticipate and address reader concerns and counterarguments. Science Research the ethics of cloning. 8.1.6 Identify the constraints that must be taken into account as a new design is developed, such as gravity and the properties of the materials to be used. 8.1.7 Explain why technology issues are rarely simple and one-sided because contending groups may have different values and priorities. 8.1.8 Explain that humans help shape the future by generating knowledge, developing new technologies, and communicating ideas to others. Compare and contrast the historical and current views dealing with cloning. 8.1.1 Recognize that and describe how scientific knowledge is subject to modification as new information challenges prevailing theories and as a new theory* leads to looking at old observations in a new way Research the role of politics in science. 7.1.8 Explain that technologies often have drawbacks as well as benefits. Consider a technology, such as the use of pesticides, which helps some organisms but may hurt others, either deliberately or inadvertently. 7.1.9 Explain how societies influence what types of technology are developed and used in fields such as agriculture, manufacturing, sanitation, medicine, warfare, transportation, information processing, and communication. 7.1.10 Identify ways that technology has strongly influenced the course of history and continues to do so. Examine the benefits of cloning to the world. 7.4.10 Describe how technologies having to do with food production, sanitation, and disease prevention have dramatically changed how people live and work and have resulted in changes in factors that affect the growth of human population. Social Studies Research the role of politics in science. 8.2.4 Examine functions of the national government in the lives of people. Contributors: Kris McGlaun, Joy Dewing, DiPrelio Eden Kuhlenschmidt, Roberta Ash, and Lu Dayment .
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