Zone One Lesson Plan

Read "Saturday" from the beginning through the section that ends with "It was their night out."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

   Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

   Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g.,...