Walden Lesson Plan

Read "House-warming," "Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors," "Winter Animals," and "The Pond in Winter" (Chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16).

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
   Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.8
   Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of...