The Enemy Lesson Plan

The Impact of Tone

Kind of Activity:

Role Play

Objective:

Students will explore nonverbal communication in the story through analysis and role play.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.6

Structure:

For this activity, students will examine communication in "The Enemy" by tracking the adjectives and adverbs Buck uses to describe each character's speech throughout the story thus far.

Together as a class, use index cards to write down all of the adjectives, adverbs, and other descriptors used by the author that relate to speech and...