Brother Lesson Plan

Scenes from the Text

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will assess both the actual dialogue and the subtext of their assigned scene to provide an accurate and impactful performance.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.6

Structure:

For this activity, students will be assigned to act out different scenes from Chapters 3-4, such as:

1. Aisha and Michael discussing whether or not she can have a get-together at his and Ruth's apartment, including Ruth wandering barefoot into the valley
2. Francis putting tin foil on the windows and the subsequent fight he has with his mother
3. Francis and Michael talking in the...