To Build a Fire Lesson Plan

Freezing to Death

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to check the facts of the story for their accuracy. They will use scientific evidence to support the validity of the narrator's account.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.8 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1

Structure:

As a class, discuss the man's mental and physical experience of freezing, step by step. Include both facts about the way he feels and about the way he is thinking, including perceptions/hallucinations.

Using the internet or other school/classroom resources, research what it is like to freeze to death and the kinds of symptoms one would have leading up to...