The Overstory Lesson Plan

Author Interview

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will read an interview of the author and discuss it as a class.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1

Structure:

This lesson plan has made reference to the Bookpage interview of Richard Powers a few times. Students will now be asked to read the interview itself, after which the instructor will lead everyone in a discussion on the interview, and how what Powers says is reflected in the novel itself. The interview may be found here:

https://bookpage.com/interviews/22518-richard-powers-fiction

Students may be given class time to read the interview before the discussion, or it could be...