Day 1

Snow Country Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read from “The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country” to “Alone in the quiet, they could think of little to say.” (pages 3-33).

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7

  4. 4

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Pages 3-33

In these opening pages, Shimamura, the protagonist, encounters and thinks about two...

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