Atonement Lesson Plan

Regrets, I've Had a Few

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

To connect your own experience to the character's

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4

Structure:

Students should take out the previous night's homework, including both the object in question (if applicable) and the paragraph. Ask a few students to share the significance of their object, i.e. to explain the way their thinking has changed since they created it.

On the previous day, students read Chapter 3 and were privy to the revelation about writing that changed Briony's life; for today, they read about the crime that, presumably, will also have a...