Teacher Guide

The Nickel Boys Lesson Plan

Bringing in Technology

Throughout the study of The Nickel Boys, students with disabilities should have the option of using dictation software for writing assignments, and text-to-speech software for reading assignments, or any other ADA-mandated technological accommodations.

- On Day 1, students will research famous opening lines of English-language novels.
- On Day 2, students will listen to a recording of Martin Luther King.
- On Day 3, students will research the bildungsroman genre.
- On Day 3, students will research the three-act story structure.
- On Day 4, students will research and write about recent incidents in civil rights violations, and the subsequent response from activists and allies.
- On Day 5,...

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