The Old Man and the Sea Lesson Plan

T-Chart, Word Web and Thread

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to develop active reading strategies and to consider both concretre and abstract ideas in the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

Structure:

In the case you have decided to continue this activity from section one, and throughout the book, students will have accumulated more concrete and abstract selections from their reading.

Ask students to once again revisit their T-Charts. Have them:

1. Revisit their existing thread from the previous section. Ask them to identify new concrete and abstract additions to that thread, and then to...