The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Lesson Plan

Cause and Effect

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will create a graphic organizer to show the causes and effects of the famine

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

Structure:

In this activity, students will create a graphic organizer to better visualize and understand the causes and effects of the famine depicted in the book.

Class Examples (10-15 minutes)

Project a blank graphic organizer for the class to see. To introduce the activity, choose a well-known story and have the class work together to create a graphic organizer to figure out the effects of the different actions that occur. For example, take If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In...