White Teeth Lesson Plan

Mapping North London

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will explore the ways in a text can create and shape our perceptions of setting through language.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

Structure:

From the first pages of White Teeth, the landscape of North London is both integral and taken for granted. Students will to try to gain a more concrete understanding of the world that the novel is taking place in.

First, the whole class should work together to name places, neighborhoods, or roads that are mentioned in the first five chapters of the novel. The teacher should write these on the board, aiming for a list of 9-15 terms. This...