"The Shroud" and Other Short Stories Lesson Plan

For this section, students should read the short story "Widow with Sons", in The Oxford India Premchand.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.1

   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.2

   Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.3

   Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how...