Tuck Everlasting Lesson Plan

How to Do Good

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will identify a problem in the world and take steps to help solve it.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9

Structure:

Miles Tuck and Winnie Foster have similar goals in life: to do something good. Neither of them know exactly what good they want to do or how to accomplish it. Which character do students think is more likely to accomplish their goal: Miles, because he has so much time, or Winnie, because she knows she only has limited time, which may be the impetus needed for her to do the work?

Have students brainstorm what good they would do in the world if they were going to live forever. What...