From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Lesson Plan

Adaptation and Performance (Day 1)

Kind of Activity:

Role Play

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the text by engaging with it in a different form

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.6

Structure:

Divide students into small groups (no more than 4 students per group). Each group should discuss one scene—an event in one location, in which several characters speak—that they find particularly interesting or exciting. Students should discuss until their group has settled on one important scene, taking notes on the scene they choose. What makes it exciting? What makes it unique?

Explain that they will be...