Waiting for Lefty Lesson Plan

Family Matters

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will respond to the scene they have just read.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.B

Structure:

Students will discuss, as a class, the Labor Spy Episode via the following prompt: if you were in Clayton's brother's situation, would you side with the union as easily as he does? Why or why not? Ask the class to imagine that they have found themselves on opposite sides of a major disagreement from one of their siblings (or a cousin or good friend, if they are an only child). It can be easy to argue for the "right" side of the union when considering this situation in the abstract, so...