Fire on the Mountain Lesson Plan

Where Truth Lives

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Students will examine how Raka identifies truth and falseness in the novel as well as how we identify truth and falseness in society today.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

Structure:

Read the following passages aloud together as a class:

"Raka, putting her plate back on the table, the snacks uneaten, gave a little agonized twist of despair, then sat still, limp, faded. It seemed there was no end...