Day 5

The Overstory Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Author Interview

    Kind of Activity:

    Group Discussion

    Objective:

    Students will read an interview of the author and discuss it as a class.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1

    Structure:

    This lesson plan has made reference to the Bookpage interview of Richard Powers a few times. Students will now be asked to read the interview itself, after which the instructor will lead everyone in a discussion on the interview, and how what Powers says is reflected in the novel itself. The interview may be found here:

    https://bookpage.com/interviews/22518-richard-powers-fiction

    Students may be given class time to read the interview before the discussion, or it could be...

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