Holes Lesson Plan

Students should read from the start of the novel to the end of Chapter 9.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

   Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

   Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7
   Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to...