Boy: Tales of Childhood Lesson Plan

Adventures in Time: Charting Dahl's Young Life (Part I)

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will identify the important events in the interwoven, narrative- and memory-focused story Dahl weaves, and will evaluate the significance of those events in shaping the various Dahl's beliefs, actions, and identity.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1

Structure:

Begin by explaining to the class that because of Dahl's narrative style and emphasis on certain memories or periods of time as particularly important or memorable, it can be hard to keep track of when everything...