All Creatures Great and Small Lesson Plan

Lambing Then and Now

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will read an account of modern-day lambing and compare it to Herriot’s experience in the early-to-mid-1900s.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1

Structure:

Students should read “Could you make it as a modern day shepherd?” the excerpt from James Rebanks’ book The Shepherd’s Life (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/11475493/Could-you-handle-life-as-a-modern-day-shepherd.html).

Have each student answer the following questions:

- Why does Herriot like lambing? Why does Rebanks like it?

- Why does it work when Rebanks uses the old...