The Lovely Bones Lesson Plan

Read the epigraph and Chapters 1-3.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

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 classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Epigraph

Susie describes a snow globe that sat on her father’s desk when she was a child. She worried about the penguin inside the snow globe because it was alone. Her father reassured her by saying that the penguin has a nice life because he is trapped in a perfect world.

Chapter 1

The narrator's name is Susie Salmon. Susie begins...