The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Lesson Plan

Read Chapter 19 through Chapter 27.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.3
   Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.6
   Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved.

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...