Day 3

The Year of Magical Thinking Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Chapters 9-11.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5
    Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6
    Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

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...

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