The Nickel Boys Lesson Plan

Read the Prologue.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

   Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10

   By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band...