The Things They Carried Lesson Plan

Read "Field Trip," "The Ghost Soldiers," "Night Life," and "The Lives of the Dead."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2

   Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3

   Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6

   Analyze a case in which grasping a...