The Secret Garden Lesson Plan

An arrangement of plot

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

To think about how the events of the story fit together

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1.B

Structure:

Print and cut out the chapter descriptions from Lit2Go’s Secret Garden page (https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/163/the-secret-garden/), taking care to cut away the chapter titles. Break the students into small groups and give each group a complete cut-out set of all the chapter descriptions in the book. Ask each group to work together to arrange the events of the book in order so that they’re in a straight horizontal line. It probably makes sense for them to arrange these...