Xala Lesson Plan

Mercedes and Mineral Water: Excess Wealth in a Time of Drought

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will place Xala within its historical, geographical, and sociopolitical context through guided classwide discussion and reading.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6

Structure:

This activity may begin with an invitation for students to reflect on the chronological as well as geographical setting of the novel. For example, are they...