The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Lesson Plan

Franklin Says, and I Say: A They Say, I Say Short Composition

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to integrate textual evidence into a critical response to the reading.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1.b

Structure:

Students will find evidence to support popular opinion about Benjamin Franklin.

Have students use popular resources to identify Franklin's most famous sayings. They may simply do a Google search to find these. Have them make a list of ten of his most popular aphorisms/maxims/proverbs, etc.

Have them go back as far as the beginning of the text to find passages from his own life which seem to provide evidence...