The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Lesson Plan

A Junto Presentation

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able identify, discuss and write succinctly about important themes that arise in the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.1

Structure:

Students will present an issue of concern as if they were a member of the Junto Club. Have students refer back to the Socratic dialogue in this plan for rules of discussion. Also, consider what Franklin writes:

The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and...