Day 1

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Session One and Session Two.

Common Core Objectives

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Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Session One

The novel opens during an interview session with Cara Romero, a Dominican woman living in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. The session is part of the Senior Workforce Program. The year is 2009. Cara begins by saying she came to the US so her husband wouldn’t kill her. She lost her job two years ago when...

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