Outliers Lesson Plan

Introduction through Chapter Two.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.3

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

Introduction through Chapter Two

Introduction

In the late 1950s, a doctor named Steward Wolf discovers a town in rural Pennsylvania where hardly anyone suffers from heart disease. There is also no suicide, no...