We Have Always Lived in the Castle Lesson Plan

Read Chapters 1 and 2.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B

5. 5

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.9

6. 6

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Chapter One

Mary Katherine Blackwood is an eighteen-year-old girl who lives with her older sister, Constance, and her invalid uncle, Julian, in the Blackwood...