The Things They Carried Lesson Plan

Character Dialogue

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will be able to write for certain characters and role play them in the classroom in a short skit.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3

Structure:

Students are going to co-write a dialogue for the story they imagined about Mary Anne in Day 3 and include this dialogue somewhere appropriate at the end of the last story, "The Lives of the Dead."

Discuss the ideas about love and death in "The Lives of the Dead," and explore the connection between these themes and the story "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong." Include in this discussion what students wrote in the Day 3 activity about Mary Anne's...