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

Secrets

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to explore one of the abstract ideas of the book through their own writing

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.6

Structure:

Mrs. Frankweiler says that secrets change you "inside where it counts." The ways that secrets change you, students have probably realized, aren't always visible, but they are always very real to a person.

Ask students to make their own lists of secrets—they might still be secrets, or they might not be secrets anymore—that have changed them in some way. There should be at least three or four on...