As I Lay Dying Lesson Plan

As I Sat Journaling (Part 5)

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will write a final response in their journals.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1.B

Structure:

To conclude the long-term journaling project, ask students to prepare one more entry which summarizes their feelings on a given character. These responses should take the entire character arc into consideration. You may expand the scope of this project and have students prepare a longer piece on their character, as well, in which case you may want to assign this for homework.

Once student responses are prepared, have the class group up by their chosen character (i.e., all the...