In the Skin of a Lion Lesson Plan

Quote Exercise

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and analyze important quotes.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

Structure:

To begin this activity, write the quote, “Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting” (29) on the board. Ask students to describe the circumstances around this quote. (The narrator says it while describing Harris’s dreams for Toronto.) Explain to students that this quote is important for understanding Harris’s point of view, and note that it also has implications for how the city is built (on...