Angela's Ashes Lesson Plan

Read Chapters VII through XI.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   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., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.6
   Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9
   Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a...