The Golden Notebook Lesson Plan

Four Lenses: Looking at Your Story

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to relate their own experience to the way Anna attempts to divide her life

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4

Structure:

For homework last night, students should have considered how they would divide their own lives into four strands, as Anna has done. This will be the basis for a long-term project during this unit. Students will be using four different lenses to look at their lives and experiences and then, in the end, attempting to create a piece that combines them.

In this first installment of working on the project in...