Call of the Wild Lesson Plan

Transformation

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to compare the main character's challenges and changes to those of other characters. They will be able to make a prediction based on the evidence in the text and on their informed opinions of other characters' journeys.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3

Structure:

1. Discuss what is happening to Buck, and then compare and contrast it with other characters in literature, film or TV who are also at some point at risk of being broken and transformed permanently. Use the terms transformation, hero, change, paradigm shift, corruption, adapting, broken, and persevering....