Brave New World Lesson Plan

Read chapters 1 – 3.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2

   Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   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.

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the...