The Secret Garden Lesson Plan

#Iused2think

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

To think about why people believe things that aren’t true and apply this idea to the book

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1.C, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1.D

Structure:

Discuss as a class: Why did Colin believe so firmly that he was going to get a hunchback and/or die? Do you think he was being reasonable or not?

Tell each student to create a Twitter thread at least three Tweets long and should hashtag each Tweet “Iused2think.” Each Tweet should detail something they used to believe that they now know isn’t true. If students run out of ideas, they can consult the Buzzfeed article “32 Things You Always Believed...