Day 1

The Water Dancer Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Chapters 1-4.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

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

Chapters 1-2

In this first chapter, Coates introduces the reader to Hiram’s world. Hiram is a full-grown man in this chapter, and he is driving his brother Maynard around the town where they live in Virginia. Hiram reveals that there are two types of people in his world, the Tasked and the...

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