A Handful of Dates Lesson Plan

For this section, students should read all of Tayeb Salih's "A Handful of Dates".

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.4

   Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.6

   Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.7

   Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that...