The Golden Notebook Lesson Plan

Read "Free Women: 3" (The Black Notebook, The Red Notebook, The Yellow Notebook, and The Blue Notebook).

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5
   Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

2. 2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4
   Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.5
   Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising,...