A Long Way Gone Lesson Plan

The Power of Words: Defining the Various Groups of Displaced People

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will work together to better understand the various definitions and meanings applied to displaced people.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

Structure:

Over the course of the 1990s, roughly half a million Sierra Leonean's fled their country to...