The Bean Trees Lesson Plan

Read Chapters 1-3.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
   Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
   Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

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...