Go Tell it On the Mountain Lesson Plan

Cause and Consequence

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

To explore the ways that characters understand events in their lives and the idea of fate or free will exhibited in the book.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.A; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.B; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.E

Structure:

In “Gabriel’s Prayer,” the ideas of fate, free will, and consequence often are examined as we see characters experience and attempt to process a series of climactic events in their lives. Gabriel obsesses over what he understands as his “fate” once he is born again, while...