Day 1

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students read "Introduction: Getting Ready" and "One: Serving in Florida."

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1
    Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2
    Determine two or more 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 provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3
    Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how...

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