The Golden Notebook Lesson Plan

Read "The Golden Notebook" and "Free Women: 5."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2
   Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5
   Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6
   Analyze a case in...