A Lost Lady Lesson Plan

Mrs. Beasley, Confidential

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will identify the role of town gossips in keeping social standards

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.2

Structure:

At the end of Part Two, Chapter Nine, Niel notices the operator Mrs. Beasley going to the neighbor Molly Tucker's house to gossip about what she heard on Mrs. Forrester's call to Frank Ellinger. But we readers don't get to see what the two people said to one another.

Break the students into pairs, assigning one the role of Mrs. Beasley and the other of Molly...