Weep Not, Child Lesson Plan

Aspects of the Novel

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to critically discuss several separate aspects of the story.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5

Structure:

Students will enhance some aspect of the story by adding to or creating a new scene. This activity is going to be used to develop the following activity in this Day (Storyboards).

Ask students to define the following aspects of a story: character development; setting; narration; plot; theme.

Continue by having a discussion about these aspects of the novel, generally speaking. Then, as a class, jot down notes about these aspects of...