We Need New Names Lesson Plan

Students read For Real, How They Left, DestroyedMichigan and Wedding

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.C

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7

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

For Real

The children watch Bornfree's funeral. The mourners are not somber, they are furious.

Darling brings us back to the aftermath of the election: the adults remained...