Swami and Friends Lesson Plan

Biography and Fiction

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will be able to understand the influence of the author's life on his fiction

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1.D, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4

Structure:

This is a group project where the students will be researching Narayan's biography to discover how it may have influenced his novel.

Divide the students into groups of three or four and ask them to research Narayan's biography, including both primary and secondary sources. Working together, they should collect at least five sources and write a succinct paragraph describing each source. These should be saved to a file-sharing...