If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Lesson Plan

Memos from the Publishing Company

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will write a professional social media post.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

Structure:

Ask students to imagine they are the publishing company that has completely messed up the Reader’s experience of If on a winter’s night a traveler. First, they messed up the pages in If on a winter’s night a traveler, and then, come to find out, that’s not the book inside at all. So, the Reader picks up the “right” book, only to find that that is not right either. This publishing house has some explaining to do.

Organize students into groups of three or four. Instruct them...