On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Lesson Plan

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Blogs

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will record their reactions, questions, and make and evaluate predictions throughout the duration of the book

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.10

Structure:

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous recounts scenes with domestic violence, drug use and overdoses, horrors of war, violent language including homophobic and racial slurs, gender non-conforming people, sexually explicit scenes, and a scene in which a monkey's brain is eaten while still alive. This material may be triggering to some students, particularly students for whom these...