Our Mutual Friend Lesson Plan

Sixpence For Your Thoughts

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will write a journal entry from the perspective of one of the novel's characters that responds to the day's reading.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

Structure:

Our Mutual Friend is a novel that deals largely with the internal lives of its characters, and how they choose to reflect those lives (or not) in their outward appearances. As such, students will be asked to write a journal entry from a major character's perspective. These journal entries should respond to the immediate events of the day's...