Jasmine Lesson Plan

Writing Your Inner Novel

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will intimately examine Mukherjee's writing style by creating their own novel fragments modeled after a passage in Jasmine

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3

Structure:

Mukherjee's storytelling is so fluid, natural, and real, that reading Jasmine is a little like reading her journal, or like being invited in to her thought stream. Mukherjee's work shows us that we each have a novel inside of us, running in the background, available to be expressed if we only tune in to it. For this activity, students will analyze...