The Phantom Tollbooth Lesson Plan

If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:

1. 1

   Students will be able to understand how the author uses the text to impart explicit and implicit moral lessons

2. 2

   Students will be able to understand how the text is structured as a literary allegory

3. 3

   Students will be able to understand how the author uses wordplay to draw attention to language and insert humor and interest into his writing

4. 4

   Students will be able to understand how the text is structured and how it relates to similar adventure-myth stories