Everything I Never Told You Lesson Plan

Clues (Part I)

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to consider how the author chooses to keep and reveal information

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1.C

Structure:

Break students into groups of two or three. Their job is to collect evidence from chapters 1-3 regarding what happened to Lydia. They should write down all the secrets and pieces of information they’ve gleaned from the text that might be relevant. This is a list of what they know.

Instruct each group to then write a second list of things they don’t know, things that they think would help them understand what happened. For example, they...