Just Mercy Lesson Plan

Read Chapter Four, "The Old Rugged Cross," through Chapter Six, "Surely Doomed."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
   Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
   Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
   Analyze how an author's choices concerning...